Quick sausage sandwiches

[Tab]

This is what I did...

Step one:
Took a pack of sweet Italian sausages (I'm sure hot would work too, but I can't eat them anymore)
Knifed each one of them about five times (creating slits)
Boiled water heavily seasoned with garlic salt (the same way I make my pasta)
Put the sausage in there for about 5 minutes until the excess fat boiled away and they turned grey
Removed to a bowl, let them cool for about 5 or 10 minutes.

Step two:
Take my Le Creuset 4qt (or 5qt?) pot, put in some cheap Hunts crushed tomatos with added tomato paste (about $2.19 - I figured I could add spices myself). Added a shitload of fresh basil and oregano, some crushed pepper and coarse sea salt. I would have also put in fresh crused garlic, but I didn't feel like dealing with it.
Heat it on the stove on low (or 2, but nothing particularly high).

Step three:
Slit each sausage in half - lengthwise (if you don't do this, they take forever to cook)
Fired up the grill
Grilled them skin-side down, then flipped them over (order probably doesn't matter)

Step four
After grilling them on both sides - being pre-boiled (partially) and then grilled in half - they should be ready - mix them in with the sauce.

Step five
Let them sit all you want (don't forget to turn the heat down), but when you're ready, put them on split long rolls buttered on the outside, some sauce, provolone cheese, in your oven - bake until it looks good.

Take it out and enjoy


No need to spend hours doing this - you can do it all in about 30 to 45 minutes (depending on how concentrated on the task you are).

They were pretty frickin' yum.

- t

[AlecBGreen]

1. w o w

that sounds really good

[hippywife]

2. Sounds really yummy, Tab.

Simmering a really good Italian sausage fixes a cheap tomato sauce every time. Glad you were able to eat them...eat anything. :hug: