Recipes

Crockpot Lasagna

Ingredients

29 oz. plain tomato sauce
Oven ready  lasagna noodles
1-sandy river sweet italian link
1/4 cup chopped onion and/or green pepper
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp italian seasonings
1 tsp minced garlic
Salt and pepper to taste
2 cups of mozzeralla cheese
2 cups cottage cheese
Crockpot

Directions

 
ASSEMBLE IN CROCKPOT:

1. Remove sausage from casings. Brown in pan with onions and peppers.
2. Drain off fat from meat. add sauce, seasonings, and sugar. simmer for 5-10 minutes.
   • 1/2 cup sauce
   • Layer noodles
   • 1/2 cup moz. cheese and  1/2 cup cottage cheese
   • Layer sauce
3. Complete layers  til ingredients or crockpot size will allow.
4. Finish top with sprinkled mozzeralla cheese.
5. Cook on low for 4-5 hours.

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Annelles' Sausage & Bean Soup

Ingredients

2 16oz. Cans of white northern beans
32oz.  Chicken broth
2 lb.s mild sausage
1 large onion diced
2 garlic cloves minced
2 carrots chopped
1 or 2 celery stalks chopped
4 cups of kale roughly chopped(enter stem removed)
2 leeks cleaned and chopped
2 Tbs. rosemary, minced
2 Tbs. thyme, minced
2 Tbs. tomato paste
2 cans of cooked diced tomatoes
2 turnips peeled and cubed
Salt and pepper to taste

Directions

1. Add 1-2 tablespoons of olive oil to big soup pot
2. Over medium heat brown sausage til pink color is gone.
3. Add onions, carrots, celery, cook til vegetables are soften..
4. Add kale,leeks, rosemary, thyme, and garlic. Cook and stir all together for a few minutes.  
5. Add broth to Pot with vegetables and meat.
6. Add tomato paste, Turnips, canned tomatoes, salt and pepper.
7. Cook slowly for 40 minutes. Or ready to serve.

This is usually better the next day. Serve with crusty bread or corn bread.

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Sandy River Sausage Breakfast Casserole

Ingredients

1 lb. hot or mild sausage
6 eggs beaten
6 slices of bread
2 cups half &half
soften butter or margerine
1 tsp of salt
1 1/2 cups of sharp chedder
1/4 tsp. pepper
cheese shredded

Directions

1. Cook sausage til crumbly, drain well on paper towels
2. Spread butter on bread slices and place these in the bottom of  a  9x13 pan.
3. Sprinkle sausage on the bread, then cheese on the sausage. 
4. Combine eggs, half & half, and seasonings.
5. Beat well.
6. Pour over cheese.
7. Refrigerate overnite.
8. Bake 40 to 50 minutes at 350 degrees.

******Makes a great do ahead dinner for busy nights******

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Anytime Sandy River Sausage Tacos

Ingredients

1lb. hot or mild sausage
4-6 soft flour torillas
1/2 cup sweet onion chopped
1 cup grated sharp or colby cheese
Shredded lettuce
1 chopped tomato
Salsa, sour cream (optional)

Directions

1. Cook sausage and onion together , until sausage is crumbly and done.
2. Drain on paper towels.
3. Assemble taco by taking torilla , add 2 tbls or more of the sausage mixture. then build taco with lettuce, tomato, cheese, and top off with salsa, sour cream if desired.

******Create your own variations.******

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Twenty Five Usages for Sausage

1. Make sausage patties serve with pancakes.
2. Brown one pound of  sausage, drain fat, mix with scrambled eggs.
3. Brown one pound of sausage use as a topping for pizza.
4. Mix 1 pound of sausage and 1 pound of hamburger mix well make hamburger patties.
5. Mix sausage and hamburger, with 1/2 cup of italian bread crumbs for meatballs.
6. Mix sausage and hamburger together for a meatloaf.
7. Brown sausage , onions, peppers together for meat in tacos.
8. Make sausage in walnut size balls, cook thru, insert toothpicks dip in bar-b-que sauce.
9. Make a pot of grits, add cooked crumbled sausage.
10. Brown a pound of sausage make a flour base gravy for biscuits.
11. Make a spagetti sauce with sausage as the meat ingredient.
12. Roll out cresecent rolls, put 1 tbsp of cooked sausage in center of dough , top with grated cheese, pinch together sides and corners, bake til brown.
13. Fry a sausage pattie with eggs and toast.
14. Put  sausage pattie on a biscuit.
15. Mix cooked sausage in a quiche recipe.
16. Put cooked sausage in a stromboli recipe.
17. Stuff bell peppers with a sausage and rice recipe.
18. Fry homestyle potatoes. add sausage and onions.
19. Mix sausage and ricotta cheese, stuff macroni shells cover with sauce and bake.
20. Add sausage with apples to stuffing for turkey or chicken
21. Cook sausage put in center of a pancake, roll up, dip in syrup for a change.
22. Make a meat pie with sausage hamburger or veal. add onions, carrots, potatoes,peas. bake in pie shell.
23. Melt processed cheese add salsa, cooked sausage. use as a dip for corn chips, yum.
24. Make a bean soup with sausage.
25. Make breakfast for dinner, enjoy sausage with your family.