We’re a good 40 minutes to the closest supermarket, and while we have a small mom and pop grocery store about 10 minutes italian sausage recipes without pasta, it certainly isn’t open all the time and has a very small selection. Because of this, I’ve gotten really good at making substitutions.
My newest substitution achievement is turning pork breakfast sausage into pork Italian sausage. For some reason, our CSA keeps us in near-constant supply of delicious, flavorful, local pork breakfast sausage. So when I went digging in our deep freeze the other day for some Italian sausage, and all I was met with was pounds and pounds of breakfast sausage, I knew it was time for some substitution magic. In an ideal world, we’d use the highest quality Italian sausage from the most incredible little Italian shop you could find.