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Italian Peasant Stew – Sausage and Cabbage Stew

The best thing about cold weather? It’s the best excuse to make a big pot of soup or stew! A hearty and simple Italian peasant stew, which is more stew than soup.

It uses Savoy cabbage (use Napa cabbage for milder taste),  Italian sausage, white beans, fresh parsley, and Parmesan cheese.  We use savoy cabbage for this recipe, but you could use regular cabbage, Asian cabbage, collard greens or even dinosaur kale. If you want to make this stew vegetarian, leave out the sausage and double the beans.
Easy to make and easy on the budget. Buon appetito!
  • Prep time: 10 minutes
  • Cook time: 50 minutes
  • Yield: Serves 8 to 10

Ingredients

  • 1 Tbsp olive oil
  • 1 pound Bernie’s Sweet Italian sausage, removed from casings
  • 1 large yellow onion, half sliced and half minced
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • 1 1/2 cups white wine
  • 1 15-oz can of white beans (cannellini, Great Northern, or Navy), drained
  • 1 quart vegetable or chicken stock
  • 1 quart water
  • 1 teaspoon salt, more to taste
  • 1 large (2-lb) savoy cabbage, quartered, then sliced into 1/4-inch thick slices
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 cup chopped parsley, loosely packed
  • 1/2 cup to a cup of freshly grated Grana Padano or Pecorino cheese for garnish (or Parmesan)

Directions

  • Brown the sausage: Heat the olive oil on medium-high heat in a large (8-quart), thick-bottomed pot. Add the sausage, breaking it up into pieces as you put it into the pot in a single layer. When the sausage has nicely browned, remove it with a slotted spoon and set aside.
  • Sauté onions, garlic: Add the minced onion (save the sliced onion for later) and sauté for 3-4 minutes, stirring often.Once the onions give up some of their water, use a wooden spoon to scrape up any browned bits from the bottom of the pot. Add the minced garlic and cook for another 1-2 minutes.
  • Add wine, beans, boil, lower heat to simmer: Add the white wine and the beans and bring to a rolling boil. Reduce to a simmer. Cover and cook for 10 minutes. If you want, for a thicker base, use an immersion blender to blend some (or all) of the beans and onions.
  • Add water, stock, salt, cabbage, sliced onion, bay leaves sausage, then simmer: Add the water, stock, salt, cabbage, sliced onion half, bay leaves and browned sausage. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to a simmer. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes, then uncover and continue cooking until the cabbage is tender, about another 10-20 minutes.

To serve, sprinkle on chopped parsley and grated cheese.

 

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WCIA ci Living Storyteller with Piemonte Sausage

by Ryan Burk WCIA ci Living Storyteller

ci5You may not have ever given any thought to how sausage is made, but it actually is a very interesting process. I follow along with Piemonte Sausage to see how its done in this latest Made in Illinois.

 

 

 

 

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Taste it you love it!  It is that simple with Piemonte Sausage.

 

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Shh Secret Recipe Apple Cranberry Pecan Sausage Stuffing

Piemonte Apple Cranberry Pecan Sausage Stuffing

¾ cup finely chopped onion.

1 ½ cups chopped parsley with leaves

1 cup butter or margarine (or substitute sausage drippings for part)

8 cups of soft bread cubes

1 ½ teaspoons dried sage leaves

1 teaspoon thyme

½ teaspoon pepper

1 lb. Piemonte Apple/Cranberry/Pecan Sausage with casings removed.

Directions

  1. Remove casing from sausage crumble and brown. Set aside.
  2. Cook  and stir onion and celery in margarine or butter and sausage drippings until the onion is tender.
  3. Stir in about ½ of bread cubes. Turn into a deep bowl. Add remaining ingredients including the browned Piemonte Apple/Cranberry/Pecan Sausage,
  4. Stuff turkey just before roasting or put into a dish and bake at 325 degrees for 35 – 40 minutes.

About 9 cups of stuffing (12 lb. turkey).

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Sausage Tasting 11/20/16

Taste it to love it!

The one and only owners of Piemonte Sausage, Claude and Susan, will be having a tasting of their great quality sausages on Sunday, November 20th, 4-6pm at Harvest Market, 2209 S Neil Street in Champaign

Stop by and experience the “tastiest,” hand crafted, all natural, artisanal, locally made sausage.

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Family’s Favorite Stuffing for over 40 Years

Wild Rice Stuffing

1 Pkg Long Grain and Wild Rice

1 ½  cups chopped celery

1 ½ cups sliced mushrooms

¼ lb. butter or margarine

1 cup giblet broth*, chicken broth

½ cup chopped  fresh parsley

1 package herb stuffing mix (8 oz.) + ½ chopped medium onion

½ lb. Piemonte Colazione bulk sausage

3 beaten eggs

*To make giblet broth: Cook giblets and neck with a stalk of celery and ½ onion in enough water to make 1 cup.

Directions

  1. Brown sausage with ½ chopped medium onion and set aside.
  2. Cook rice.
  3. While rice is cooking, saute’ celery and mushrooms in butter for 2 minutes. Add stuffing mix and hot broth, add parsley, mix well.
  4. Add cooked rice and mix.
  5. Stir in browned meat and beaten eggs.
  6. Stuff turkey or turn into buttered backing dish and cook at 325 degrees until brown and crusty (about 30 – 45 minutes)
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Proud Graduates of Advanced Salumi Course Tuscany

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Advanced Salumi Course Tuscany
20–25 October 2016, 17–22

Sapori e Saperi Adventures’ course designed and led by Giancarlo Russo, National Coordinator for Slow Food Italy on meat topics and co‐author of Salumi d’Italia,

On this course Claude and Susan Cole learned the theoretical and practical elements of making a wide variety of Tuscan salumi (cured pork products). They worked with a number of experienced Italian norcini (pork butchers) in hands-on sessions during which they take notes, photos and videos.

Piemonte Sausage is eager to apply their new knowledge to make the salumi they learned on the course, and have the confidence to experiment with their own recipes.

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Song of the Wolf or Cantalupo

Hot Italian SausageCantalupo (song of the wolf): Howl, like a wolfA uniquely, robust sausage with a hint of heat and citrus. Cantalupo is the Northern Italian village where our grandmother was born. This delicious sausage of the region has made more than one person “sing like a wolf” in delight. It is a great accompaniment to Alfredo type cream sauces or for breakfast.

Linked Pork Sausage – containing All Natural Pork, Sea Salt, Minced Garlic, Fresh Ground Black Pepper, Fresh Ground Cayenne Pepper, Fennel Seed, Orange Zest stuffed in a Natural Hog Casing.

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Piemonte Sausage at Harvest Market

Piemonte Sausage will be available for purchase at this new amazing market. You can choose from a large variety.

Italian Sausage VarietiesA few flavors include; Bernie’s Classic Sweet, Bernie’s Fennel & Hot, Luganeca Piacenza, Cheese and Jalapeno, Cantalupo, Aglio (Garlic) Fresco, Italiano Birra Salsiccia (Italian Beer Sausage), Colazione (Breakfast) and Cotechino – A Northern Italian Boiling Sausage.

What did you just say? Click here for more more information and detailed descriptions http://piemontesausage.com/our-catalogue/

Serving our Sausage at the Pygmalion Fest 2016

The Black Dog Smoke & Ale House will have some Piemonte Sausage cooked in Triptych Brewing’s Dirty Hippy English Brown Ale. Gonna be tasty!  #PygmalionFestival

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Taste Piemonte Sausage @ Hy-Vee Bloomington Friday, August 26, 2016

Join us and find out what great sausage is about…

-Bernie’s Classic Fennel and Hot
-Cantalupo
-Italiano Birra (Italian Beer)

PIEMONTE SAUSAGE is available for the TASTING at Hy-Vee Bloomington Meat Department TOMORROW – Friday, August 26, 2016, from 3:00 – 7:00 pm.

‘Meat’ you tomorrow at Hy-Vee BloomingtonGrilling at Common Ground,
Claude and Susan