Smoked Sausage Bean and Spinach Pasta

[reinhard1]

Upper 80's and I'm doing comfort meals, go figure.  Maybe it's because Viking football has been on or is it because of what I wait for every year, DEER CAMP.  Whatever, here is something I made yesterday.  Pasta is something I love so you can just about through anything in pasta and it's great.  What better thing to throw in it than my smoked ring bologna.  This isn't my recipe but like everything else I do even if it is my original recipe I seem to tweek  all of them.  This turned out very good.  Having left overs tonight.  Here is the recipe:

 

1 14 oz. package of smoked sausage  [ I doubled the recipe and used 2 rings of my ring bologna]

2 tsp of olive oil.  [ Really, I use what ever I need, that was too little]

6 oz of bow tie pasta, cooked and drained or pasta of your choice.  [I used Rotini style but doesn't matter]

1 15 oz can of white beans, drained and rinsed

1 zucchini, sliced 

1/2 cup vegetable broth [I use beef broth]

1 15 oz can of diced tomatoes  [ I used the garlic onion flavor]

1  6 oz pack of spinach [pre-washed]

1 T diced garlic from a jar [I added this to the recpe]

 

I cook my pasta last.  I don't like it sitting around while I'm doing everything else which is what most recipe's call for.  In a large sauce pan, put in the olive oil and fry the sausage until a little brown, and set aside.  Add the zucchini and vegetable broth to the skillet and simmer until zucchini are soft.  Add white beans and tomatoes and simmer for a few minutes along with the garlic.  Then put the spinach in the pan and stir it in there until the leaves wilt.  Turn the heat on low and stir in the pasta, and smoked sausage while mixing well.  Leave everything in there for a few minutes and keep mixing it.  Then it is ready to serve.  Here are some pic's. good luck.

My smoked ring bologna simmering.

 

Put everything in the mix and it's ready to get dumped in with the pasta.

 

Looks good enough to eat.

 

 

In a bowl it goes!!  Don't like using a plate for this, I like the juices to concentrate with the meal and I used a spoon!!!  good luck.

 

 

[RebelSS]

I can't take much more of this....AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!  I'm gaining weight every time I look on here!   

[bobberineyes]

Looks splendid Reinhard. I gotta hand it to ya choosing a spoon for shoveling.....

[reinhard1]

We had left overs last night and I added another can of beef broth to it.  Meals like this I like to use a spoon.  I doubled the recipe and the next time I'm going to add a little more beef broth from the beginning.   good luck.