Sausage, Peppers, and Penne!

So today was crazy busy! I needed a really easy quick delish dinner and this was it. Have you seen the Bistro Sensations? They are a Johnsonville product -- chicken sausage with different additions, the one I used tonight is kinda spicy; but it worked out!

Start out with some tri-colored peppers, onion, garlic, sausages, and penne.

Dice up the onion, peppers, and garlic. The chicken sausage is already cooked, so it will only need to be warmed up--slice it diagonally--looks pretty!

Start a pot of water, get it to boiling. Add some salt. Then pour in the penne pasta. I used whole wheat pasta, it takes a little longer to cook but it's yummy.

Heat some light olive oil in a skillet, add the peppers and onion and saute until they are bright colored. Don't over cook them! They want to be bright and tender crisp in the final product.

Push the pepper mixture to the side and add in the sliced sausages. These are already cooked, so they only need to warm up and saute a bit. These have cheese infused in them so that adds to the sauce.

Next, add the minced garlic and some chopped tomato. Mix it all up and taste. You won't need much seasoning because the chicken sausages are seasoned already; but taste, taste, taste!

When the pasta is done, drain it, save some of the pasta water. The pasta water can be added to the sauce if it's too dry and it will help thicken the sauce.

Add the cooked pasta to the sausage and peppers in the skillet. Mix it all up and taste! I added seasoned salt and some fresh ground pepper.

Didn't have a nice chewy baguette to serve with this; instead just a simple whole wheat toast.

Hope you will try this sometime when you need a quick dinner! Enjoy, friends! p.s. Hubby likes a dark stout beer, I like light!