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Pasta with Sausage and Peppers

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Easy pasta with sausage and peppers in a creamy sauce. Delicious for a weeknight or weekend entertaining, this is a quick pasta recipe that everyone loves! To add on, a quick green salad and no-knead bread made earlier in the day are really nice.

tan bowl of sausage, peppers, onions.
In This Post
  1. Recipe Notes
  2. Pasta with Sausage and Peppers (Ingredients)
  3. Ingredient Notes and Recipe Variations
  4. Step By Step Instructions
  5. What to Serve With This Pasta Recipe
  6. Make Ahead and Storage/Leftover Notes
  7. More Easy Pasta Dinner Recipes

In college, I sang in an a cappella group.

It was pretty cool, and now I work in a cappella. (cool in the eye of the beholder, obviously)

ANYWAY, one of my group's friends from another school was from an Italian family, and he and his friends (correctly) thought that it was super cool and grown up to cook for singing folks that traveled to their college for concerts.

And that is how I learned this somewhat untraditional, Italian-American twist on Pasta with Sausage and Peppers.

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Creamy Spaghetti with Mushrooms and Bacon

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A 10-ingredient pasta dinner that is done in about 30 minutes! This DELICIOUS creamy bacon pasta is so simple to make and has delicious seared mushrooms in a creamy bacon-laced tomato sauce. Delicious for a weeknight, weekend entertaining, or an easy holiday meal! I like this with an easy green salad and focaccia for dipping in extra sauce.

close up top view bacon spaghetti.

You know how bacon is good on, like, everything?

It's true. Adding even just a little salty, crispy bacon to spaghetti with mushrooms is juuuuust the little nudge into winter dinners we need to get us through the next few cold weeks (or months depending on where you live!)

I love this spaghetti, and I make it all the time. It's a really simple base of seared bacon bits (buy the thick cut kind if you can!), mushrooms browned in the bacon fat (hello), and a creamy tomato sauce that comes together really quickly. The sauce itself is done in just about the time it takes to boil water for pasta, giving us a 30-45 minutes to dinnertime situation.

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Spicy Sambal Pork Noodles

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spicy noodle bowls made with ramen noodles (or any pasta you like!) are the perfect mid-week alternative to spaghetti with meat sauce. this asian noodle bowl is the best!

What do you watch while you eat dinner?

Do not tell me that you talk to other people. I won't hear it.

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Spicy Vodka Sauce with Sausage

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This easy spicy sausage vodka sauce in it for tons of flavor and spice! The recipe is simple and has just 12 ingredients including the pasta. Feel free to mix this up with different styles of sausage or types of canned tomatoes. To serve, I love a loaf of no-knead bread and side greens salad. YUM.

Are we ready for a delicious, amazing, foolproof, use-everytime-we-entertain pasta? Yes, yes we are.

bowl of short curly pasta with creamy vodka sauce
Table Of Contents
  1. Quick Vodka Sauce FAQ
  2. Ingredients
  3. Ingredient Notes:
  4. Step By Step Instructions
  5. Make Ahead and Serving Notes
  6. More Delicious Pasta Dinner Ideas

I love love love vodka sauce pasta. I mean, REALLY I love all pasta that has a creamy sauce, and vodka pasta is almost always creamy. This version is simple and uses bulk sausage for a meaty, spicy addition. Vegetarian vodka sauce pasta is delicious, to be sure, but there's just something about the addition of sausage that amps it up even more, you know? I love it.

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Garlic Crusted Pork Roast

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This super easy roasted pork loin is completely fool proof and has a garlic and herb butter crust that makes the most delicious pan drippings. Try this for a holiday dinner or medium-fancy weekend dinner idea!

Here's our 2018 Holiday Meal! 

No but seriously. I'm going to make this roasted pork loin once a week until February.

How was your weekend? Our was....well, let's just say that I'm really excited for the holidays but also am feeling the exhaustion and the feelings and the busy-ness and WHY ARE YOU PUKING ON ME AGAIN, BABY, in a very hard way. The week before Christmas feels like packing for vacation to me...once we get it done and onto the main event everything will be fiiiiiine.

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