I tried Ina Garten's easy one-pot sausage pasta. The delicious dish tasted even better the next day

Ina Garten's orecchiette pasta features two types of sausage and broccoli rabe.

To make Garten's pasta at home, you'll need:

• 1 pound of dried orecchiette pasta
• 2 bunches of broccoli rabe (2 to 2.5 pounds total)
• ½ pound of sweet Italian pork sausage
• ½ pound of hot Italian pork sausage
• 1 cup of freshly grated Parmesan cheese, plus extra for serving
• 6 large garlic cloves, thinly sliced
• 2 14.5-ounce cans of crushed tomatoes, preferably San Marzano
• ⅓ cup of good olive oil
• ½ cup of dry red wine
• ¼ cup of tomato paste

I couldn't find sweet Italian pork sausage at my local supermarket, so I mixed spicy and mild Italian pork sausages instead.

First, I preheated the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and prepped the sausages.

I placed the sausages on a sheet pan and pricked each one with a fork multiple times, per Garten's instructions.

Once the oven was ready, I placed my sheet pan inside and set a timer for 15 minutes. Garten says you should roast the sausages until they're just cooked through. She also recommends turning them once as they roast, which I did at the seven-minute mark.

While my sausages were cooking, I added the olive oil to my Dutch oven.

Garten recommends heating the olive oil over medium heat.

I took my sausages out of the oven, sliced each link into ½-inch pieces, and threw them into the pot.

I sautéed the slices for about five minutes, stirring frequently until the meat had browned.

After cooking the sausages for five minutes, I added the garlic.

I cooked everything together for an extra minute.

Then, it was time to add the tomatoes and wine.

I crushed each San Marzano tomato with my hand over the pot, throwing in the leftover chunks and juice from each can. Then I added the red wine and tomato paste, as well as 2 teaspoons of salt and 1 teaspoon of pepper for seasoning.

I turned the heat to low so the sauce could simmer while I prepped my pasta.

The sauce had turned a vivid bright red and already looked so delicious.

I filled a large pot with water and placed it over the stove, bringing it to a boil before adding the pasta.

Garten recommends seasoning the water with 1 tablespoon of salt.

I set a timer for exactly nine minutes and prepped the broccoli as my pasta cooked.

Garten recommends trimming the broccoli rabe to "just below the leaves" and discarding the stems. Then, cut the leafy part of the broccoli rabe crosswise into 2-inch pieces.

Once the pasta was ready, I added the broccoli rabe to my pot. Garten says you should cook them together for an additional 2 to 3 minutes, until the pasta is al dente and the broccoli is "crisp-tender."

As the pasta and broccoli cooked together, I tried to snap a picture — and accidentally dropped my phone into the boiling hot water.

I'm embarrassed to admit that my first instinct was to immediately reach into the water and grab the phone. But only my thumb managed to get in before my friend Kristen, who had been calmly sipping wine behind me just seconds earlier, thankfully interjected.

"ANNETA, NOT WITH YOUR HANDS," she screamed. "SCOOP IT! SCOOP IT!"

I grabbed the nearby slotted pasta spoon and scooped the phone out, throwing it on a towel as my thumb pulsed with heat. Somehow, it was still working.

The show had to go on, so I drained the pasta and broccoli rabe in a colander.

Per Garten's instructions, I reserved half the pasta water before draining the pot.

My phone, albeit extremely hot to the touch, was somehow still able to take pictures.

Then, I added the pasta and broccoli to the pot with the sausage and tomato sauce.

I turned off the heat and stirred in the Parmesan cheese, adding a teaspoon of salt for seasoning. Per Garten's advice, I also added a splash of the pasta water.

"You don't want it to be soupy, but you want it to be really moist," she said in an episode of "Barefoot Contessa" while demonstrating the recipe.