What's better than sausage and bread?

Okay-maybe it's not the combination I would have preferred, but since they are both delicious things I have made this week-you're getting a recipe for both of them.

We'll start with the sausage recipe first:

Sausage with Peppers

2-3 large potatoes
Cooking spray
3 tsp. olive oil, divided.
3/4 tsp. salt, divided
1/4 tsp black pepper
1 pkg of turkey smoked sausage
1 pkg frozen peppers/onion blend-Defrosted
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 tbs. red wine vinegar
1 tsp. dried rosemary
1/4 tsp crushed red pepper

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Wash & thickly slice or quarter potatoes. Arrange in a single layer in a roasting pane coated with cooking spray. Drizzle with 1 tsp. oil and sprinkle with 1/2 tsp salt and black pepper. Toss to coat. Bake for 40 minutes at 375-turning occasionally.
3. While potatoes cook, slice sausage. Heat 1 tsp. oil in a large (non-stick) skillet over med-high heat. Add sausages to pan, cook for 5-8 minutes or until slightly browned on outside. Remove sausages from pan.
4. Heat 1 tsp. oil in pan. Add pepper/onion blend and saute for about 5 minutes or until cooked through. Add garlic; saute' 1 minute. Stir in 1/4 teaspoon of salt, vinegar, rosemary and crushed red pepper. Return sausage to pan, cover and cook over medium-low heat 8 minutes or until sausage is cooked through.


Even my little guy was eating this recipe-so I knew it was a keeper. I'm putting star next to that one in my cooking binder!

My next recipe is for something that I thought was an unachievable goal-a bread that would satisfy my husbands discriminating taste. He always wanted a bread that tastes like the bread on the Arby's market fresh sandwiches. Soft, yet seemingly healthy, and of course delicious, too. Well after many months and recipes a friend shared this recipe with me and according to my hubby-"We have a winner folks!" This bread is so good that on Monday when we were dazedly trying to pack my daughter's lunch and we accidentally sent two pieces of plain bread instead of a sandwich (oops) to school-she came home saying "That was great, Mom-it didn't even need anything on it!"

The Best Bread

1 1/2 C. Hot water
1/3 C. softened butter
1/3 C. Honey
2 tsp. salt
1 egg
2 Tbs. Lecithin (I found mine at GNC vitamin store)
4-4 1/2 C. Flour
1/2 C. ground flax seed
1 Tbs. yeast (add and extra tsp. for hand kneading)

Combine water, oil, honey salt & egg. Add lecithin, half of flour and ground flax seed. Mix thoroughly. Add yeast and enough flour to make a soft dough. Knead until smooth and elastic. Let rise until double in size. Divide and roll into loaf shape-place in 2 greased loaf pans. Let rise again until double. Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes.