{"id":57,"date":"2008-04-01T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/?p=57"},"modified":"2008-04-01T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T11:11:00","slug":"sausage-and-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/2008\/04\/sausage-and-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Sausage and Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_kufElHa-EkM\/R_IYpJEoyLI\/AAAAAAAAAiU\/2bkKfIIijtY\/s1600-h\/IMG_2798.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_kufElHa-EkM\/R_IYpJEoyLI\/AAAAAAAAAiU\/2bkKfIIijtY\/s400\/IMG_2798.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184233216145934514\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t know what else to call it other than good. A number of years ago there was an Italian restaurant in a little town near here in of all places a Howard Johnsons hotel. The decor was boring but the food was great. On their menu they had a wonderful country Italian dish they called sausage and peppers. It had Italian sausage cooked with white beans, onions, garlic, roasted red peppers and slightly spicy pepperoncinis. I think it had bits of tomato and herbs. I wanted to make something that reminded me of that dish. Unfortunately I didn&#8217;t have any white beans in the pantry and no red bell peppers to speak of. So I put together something a little bit different but with a similar taste. I started with sliced onions and garlic in a big pot. I added zucchini because I had it in the fridge. In went whatever sausage I had on hand in the freezer. There were three links of polish sausage and three links of a garlic sausage. About a dozen sliced up pepperoncinis, a can of chopped tomatoes, a bit of chicken stock, thyme and oregano and I had the basis for my country style Italian sausage and stuff. I also cooked up some whole wheat penne and added that to the pot. It actually worked together. I was pleased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what else to call it other than good. A number of years ago there was an Italian restaurant in a little town near here in of all places a Howard Johnsons hotel. The decor was boring but the food was great. On their menu they had a wonderful country Italian dish they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[112,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-57","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-italian","7":"tag-penne","8":"tag-sausage","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregcooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}