Sweet, succulent Italian sausage RULES in cacciatora!
1 TBS vegetable or olive oil
11/2-2 lbs of sweet Italian sausage
1 large green bell pepper
1 large orange, yellow or red bell pepper
1 large onion, sliced
6 or so medium mushrooms (FRESH!) sliced
1 12 oz can tomato paste
1 28 oz can crushed tomatoes
2-3 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
1 TBS Italian seasoning
4 cups water
In a large saucepan, brown sausages in oil. Remove browned sausages from pan. Saute onions, peppers and mushrooms in drippings for 4 or 5 minutes. Add garlic, saute 2 more minutes.
While veggies are cooking, cut sausages into 2 inch pieces.
When vegetables are done sauteing, add crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, 4 cups of water, and sausage into pan. Stir well. Simmer for one hour,stirring occaisionally. Add seasonings and continue cooking to desired consistency. Serve over pasta or rice. ENJOY!
This is actually my sister's recipe. Thanks, Joanie!!!!!
I know what I said about the Mediterranean diet being generally healthy...this meal is probably the exception. If you are on a fat or cholesterol restricted diet, eat this at your own risk!!
Italian roasted chicken and potatoes
Ingredients:
1 roasting chicken
3 lbs potatoes
6 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
2 TBS rosemary
1 TBS Italian seasoning
1 medium onion, sliced
1/2 tsp each of onion powder, garlic powder, season salt, pepper
1 TBS olive oil
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Wash chicken inside and out and drain. Put in large, greased roasting pan. Insert cloves of garlic and 1 TBS rosemary into cavity of chicken.
Peel and cut potatoes into 2 inch chunks. Put into LARGE bowl with onion, oil, 1 TBS rosemary, 1 TBS Italian seasoning, garlic powder, onion powder, and season salt. Mix thoroughly. Arrange potatoes around chicken in pan. Cook at 325 degrees for APPROXIMATELY 2 hours till done, turn potatoes every 20 minutes or so.
Every cook has their own method for determining the doneness of chicken. I prefer a meat thermometer.
Serve with crusty bread and a salad, if you want. MANGIA!
Writing these recipes was almost an exercise in futility. Like most Italian cooks, I have no recipes.
Whenever I ask a family member for a recipe from "Nona's kitchen", the response is always the same no matter whom I ask...
I don't know how much...a handful I guess...
One of those big ones, you know the kind I mean....
You know, enough to make it taste right...
I use the kind with the picture of the guy on it. It has a green label.....
Here they are anyway....
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