Time for a recipe starring one of my favourite meats, Italian sausage!!

Also, we just decided to go out yesterday because I was pretty tired from playing catch up after the trip. So the recipes have been a bit delayed~

Penne with Sausage

Recipe:
8 oz Italian sausage, casings removed
2 garlic cloves, chopped
1 lb sliced mushrooms
1 28oz can plum tomatoes
1 tspn sugar
3/4 tspn salt
16 oz penne

Cook sausage, breaking up, and add garlic over medium heat. Heat about 5 minutes. Add mushrooms and cook another 3-5 minutes. Stir in tomatoes, with juice, sugar, and salt, breaking up the tomatoes. Cook pasta. Heat sausage mix to boiling. Reduce heat and simmer 8 minutes. Drain pasta and toss with sauce.

0vbAnqq.jpg

Difficulty: **

Changes I made:
When grocery shopping, I mistakenly thought it said plum tomatoes and not a can of plum tomatoes. So I had fresh plum tomatoes which I squashed and tore and added a little bit of water to. I also added cheese and pepper to my dish after tasting it.

Thoughts:
It was a little bit on the bland side, so I added cheese and pepper and it tasted much better. I would use more seasonings in the future as the recipe didn't call for many. I was unsure about the mushroom, but it worked really well in this dish, which was a pleasant surprise. I like mushrooms but I'm picky about in which dishes. The dish also smelled nice while cooking, at least to me, because of the sausage.

Verdict:
Really good. I think with the added seasonings and the cheese it will become a dish I make pretty often!