Sausage skillet something
Skip asked what I was making for dinner at the beginning of February.
Skip asked what I was making for dinner at the beginning of February.
I made up the recipe for this week and didn’t know what to call it at the time so my response was a sausage in a skillet with something.
He popped off that was what I should do for my column for March. Well guess what, that’s what I did. So here we are with a column full of smoked sausage skillet somethings.
They were good too! LOL!
I use turkey sausage because I can’t have pork. But it’s worth exploring for better health as well. If you look at the nutritional values, turkey sausage is much lower than pork sausage in saturated fats, which you are supposed to stay away from. It’s also lower in calories but doesn’t sacrifice the proteins you get from pork. Matter of fact, if you compare Hillshire Farms smoked sausages, you actually get more protein from the turkey sausage and it has less in the package.
This week, to go with almost all these dinners, I bought salad fixings and made garlic bread out of hot dog buns. We did that a lot growing up and I still do it to this day. A little butter and garlic powder and some time in the oven to toast and you can easily have garlic bread with as much garlic and as little salt as you want. Yum!
Did you know the original casing of sausage was animal intestines?! Beef, sheep and pig were the most common intestines used. Today, most casings are made artificial with cellulose and collagen. One more odd thing, there used to be a black market for sausage! Way back when, the sausages were made with blood. Christianity and the bible forbade the eating of blood so sausage was banned. However, so many people loved it, they created the black market to get the people what they wanted. Crazy!
This month, the recipes were all quick and easy to put together and didn’t cost much at all. Make your grocery list and get some fresh veggies. Then, meet me in the kitchen for simple sausage skillet meals that are delicious.
