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American Cuisine Soups and Stocks

Smoked Sausage and Yellow Split Pea Soup

I’m a big fan of split pea and ham soup. The color is a little off-putting, I mean, it’s green goo with little cubes of ham. However, it’s delicious and hearty, great for cold weather, kinda warms you from the inside. My leftover spiral cut ham and split pea soup is delicious. So, in my…

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Italian Cuisine

Italian Sausage Lasagna

The Mediterranean Diet is a major part if the Italian menu, fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, fish and healthy oils. These are all good, however, here, we’re talking pasta dishes. Simply put, 3 ingredients; pasta, protein and cheese, but in combinations that create incredible flavors. I have a few here Italian Sausage Stuffed Shells and Savory…

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Italian Cuisine Quick Easy Dinners

Air Fryer Italian Sausage Hoagie

Air fryers are all the rage right about now, I mean, I have one, and I love my new toy. But, as useful as they are, they are just another kitchen gadget at our disposal, and, sometimes cooking a dish requires multiple steps. And, my fryer Italian sausage hoagie is a good example. We’re going…

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Quick Easy Dinners Soups and Stocks

Rutabaga and Italian Sausage Stew

Lately I’ve been looking for alternatives to high carb veggies, and, with the rutabaga, I’ve found a good one. I grew up eating rutabaga, mum usually would mash it. But in England I knew it as a swede. So today I made rutabaga and Italian sausage stew, it was really delicious, so, I thought I’d…

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Latin Cuisine Quick Easy Dinners Sides

Latin Style Black Beans and Smoked Sausage

Most cultures have a basic dish that goes with just about anything they make. In Latin cuisine, it’s black beans, they pair with everything. Because of it’s popularity, there are so many different ways to prepare it. And, pouring a can of beans into a pot and heating them up is not one of them.…

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Latin Cuisine Sides

Farofa (Cassava Flour, Bacon and Calabrese)

When a perfectly cooked cut of meat is placed on a plate, it is surrounded by delicious juices. Now the science here is that these are made up of a lot of different things; water, fat, connective tissue that has become gelatinous, a protein called Myoglobin (it helps the oxygen in the blood get into…

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American Cuisine Quick Easy Dinners Soups and Stocks

Lentil and Sausage Stew

Dinners are important. The day is over, time to enjoy a relaxing meal. Well, that sounds nice, but usually isn’t true. The day is far from over, there’s still stuff to do. So a dinner that cooks itself would be nice, and, minimal dishes would be nice too. Now, most dinners don’t cook themselves, but,…

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Italian Cuisine

Italian Sausage Stuffed Shells

For me, Italian food is comfort food. Not because of remembering grandma’s home cooking, or big family dinners, or my heritage. No, it’s comfort food because it’s delicious, and the leftovers taste better than the original dinner. So here is Italian sausage stuffed shells. Sautéed Italian sausage meat stuffed in a shell with mozzarella, parmesan…

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American Cuisine Slow Cooker Cuisine

Slow Cooker Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya

It’s that time of year. If you’re reading this in July, the time of year I’m talking about is winter. A time for slow cooker dinners. Makes the whole house smell so good. Nothing can beat going out and coming home to those wonderful aromas of something good in the slow cooker. I think chicken…

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Italian Cuisine

Italian Sausage and Lentil Stuffed Sweet Peppers

Stuffed peppers are a classic Italian dish. Most times it calls for chop meat and rice as a stuffing. In this particular case, I decided to change it up a little. Italian sausage is so versatile, it can be used in so many different ways, in or out of the casing. And, I’m a big…