Italian Sausage Stew

I know most people would put all this on pasta but I gave up pasta along with grains, soy and all dairy except for grass-fed butter. I do cheat but I don't waste my time on pasta ... let's just get to the good stuff already!

I started with some onions:

I also diced a few bell peppers as well. These all went in a pot with just enough water to not actually cover the food. These cooked up nicely after about 5 min on high. It gets the peppers and onions soft without having to sit there and watch the pot while I chop up other stuff:

They will get a little pan fried after I dump out most of the water and add some oil. Speaking of other stuff to chop up, I went with some jarred marinated artichoke hearts and sun dried tomatoes:

I threw in some regular diced tomatoes I had in the fridge because.. well, I love tomatoes! Everything goes in the pot:

Add plenty of garlic roughly chopped up and some that's been pushed through the garlic press. After that I  added some jarred tomato sauce. You could do tomato puree and add your own spices but I was going for quick and easy:

And of course who can forget these beauties:

I went with spicy hot Italian sausage that I cooked up in another saute pan. I decided I didn't want sausage chunks and so threw it in a food processor for about 8-10 pulses. Into the pot it goes ! Once everything has had a chance to simmer (as long as you can stand to wait or about 10-20 min) it is ready to eat!

Re-lunch !! I mean, re-launch!

It was a blog about food, it will still be a blog about food. Perhaps less 'oh crap I forgot I had a blog!' and more 'intermittent,' as the original description stands. Whoops !

I'm a fan of lists, so let's go with that. Things new of note:

- I started eating Paleo or Caveman style (more on that in another post) about a year ago. As a result I lost a bunch of weight, lowered my cholesterol etc. and have found it pretty easy to keep weight off and all that.

- I still eat plenty of not great for you food but I am not kidding myself anymore when I am not eating well. ::glares at old Friday morning bagel::

- I seem to cook less and eat out more as of late. The upside is you might get pictures of tasty food !

- I have a garden where I try to grow some of my own food.

- I pickle, jam and I started making my own wine. Vinegar is on the table next so stay tuned.

- I also started recently making bar soap which is totally not related to food. It might pop up now and again. Deal with it.

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