Pink Sauce With Sausage And Pine Nuts Over Penne - penne pasta

Method

• In a large deep fry/saute pan, add 1/4 cup water and sausage.
• Cook till just cooked through.
• Water will start to evaporate.
• When cooked through, remove from pan one at a time and cut into bite sized pieces.
• Return sausage to pan to brown them.
• When sausage AND pan are brown, move sausage to paper towels and set aside.
• Add 1/4 cup more water to pan and stir up all the brown.
• Simmer sauce on low from now on.
• While doing that, in a small saute pan, heat oil and saute garlic for about 3 minutes, add to browned water.
• Add also sausage, wine, tomato sauce, chopped tomatoes, salt and pepper.
• While this is simmering roast the peppers: Pre heat oven to BROIL.
• Cut each pepper in half longways, scoop out middle, place on olive oil coated cookie sheet face down and brush skins with olive oil.
• Broil for 10 minutes or until skin is black.
• Remove, cool, peel skin, chop them up.
• Add peppers to sauce.
• Start boiling water for Penne.
• Chop up sun dried tomatoes and add to sauce.
• Now start chopping basil.
• I find it easiest to use kitchen shears.
• Set basil aside.
• Toast pine nuts: In a small DRY fry pan, add pine nuts, toast on medium heat till browned.
• Remove from pan, put in small bowl for serving.
• Add Penne to water, hopefully it is boiling now.
• 5 minutes after adding Penne to water, add basil and cream to sauce, stirring constantly.
• Heat only for 5 more minutes.
• Penne and sauce will be done at the same time.
• Spoon sauce& sausage over Penne and sprinkle pine nuts on top.
• Serve with garlic bread and salad.