Tag: sausage

Savory Pear Baked Oatmeal

Savory Pear Baked Oatmeal

So you’ve got the family together for a big holiday celebration and now you’ve got to plan for breakfast the next day. The last thing you want to do is make an elaborate, crazy breakfast, and you probably also don’t want anything too heavy. It’s…

Mediterranean Beans, Greens, and Sausage

Mediterranean Beans, Greens, and Sausage

As we get closer and closer to our Alaska moving date, my days are getting especially hectic. Between work, moving preparations, buying a new car and arranging shipment outside the contiguous US, there’s a lot needed to get done in a short amount of time.…

One-Pot Orecchiette with Fennel, Kale, and Sausage

One-Pot Orecchiette with Fennel, Kale, and Sausage

Orecchiete is a fun pasta shape to work with; in Italian, it means little ears. According to my dad, my great-grandmother would make this pasta by hand; I don’t have her skills (yet), so when I was recently at Eataly in Chicago, I picked up a bag of dried orecchiette and set out to make a pasta dish in her honor. I came up with this one-pot orecchiette recipe that’s loaded with fennel, kale, and homemade sausage as an easy date-night recipe that any Italian grandmother would be proud of.

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Italian Kale Soup with Fennel

Italian Kale Soup with Fennel

After I graduated from college, I spent several years in snowy New England, where I was introduced to the awesomeness that is kale soup. There’s a large Portuguese community in Massachusetts, which is where this style of kale soup originates. But I like to put…

Pork and Apple Stuffed Acorn Squash

Pork and Apple Stuffed Acorn Squash

Apple season is officially here, and if you’re looking for a different way to use apples than making applesauce, look no further! These pork and apple stuffed acorn squashes are a great way to use apples at dinnertime. And this dish is Whole30, with absolutely…