Tonight, I walked into the grocery store with no clue as to what I wanted for dinner. After staring at the meats for a good ten minutes, I overhead another lady buying Italian sausage to put in her lasagna. I used to love lasagna, but alas, not paleo. But sausage? Yes! That’s what I wanted to eat. So set on my sausage decision, I left not buying anything else. I can be so one-track minded sometimes! Once home, I found: spinach leaves, a bell pepper, onions, parsley, and a can of diced tomatoes. Here’s what I made with these ingredients…a sausage summer stew.
Ingredients (made enough for 3 hungry high school girls, my mom and myself):
Italian sausage links (I used 4 although I probably could’ve had more)
1 bell pepper (color of your choice!)
1 onion
2 cups (very approximate) spinach leaves
1 14.5 oz can of diced tomatoes
3 pinches of salt and pepper
parsley
Instructions:
1. Dice the onions and bell pepper.
2. Wash the spinach leaves.
3. Cut up the sausage links into little 1 inch cubes.
4. Heat up a pan or wok. Once hot, add maybe a couple tablespoons of olive oil. Wait a minute before adding the onions. After the onions, add the sausage. Stir until the sausage turns brown.
5. Add the bell pepper. After a couple minutes, add the diced tomatoes. Once the tomatoes are heated through, add the spinach leaves and voila! You’ve got yourself a stew.
You’re more than welcome to add or subtract ingredients as you’d like. I wish I had some garlic to add in there! I added some chopped parsley right before serving. Tonight, I opted to pair this with some cauliflower “rice. What would you choose to pair it with?
