ITALIAN SAUSAGE PASTA

Serves 4

This sauce works great with any pasta.

3 cups rigatoni
1 tsp. salt
4 mild or hot Italian sausages
1 small yellow onion
1 small red bell pepper
¼ cup fresh parsley
1 - 28 ounce can diced tomatoes with juice
⅓ cup red wine
2 tsp. dried oregano
Salt and pepper to taste
Freshly grated Parmesan

Place pasta and salt in Fasta Pasta.
Add water to level 4.
Cook 10 minutes. Stir; cook 7 minutes.

Meanwhile:
Place sausage in a cold skillet. On medium heat, brown sausage, breaking apart as it cooks.
Chop onion and pepper.
Remove sausage from heat. Pour off all but 2
Tbs. of the fat.
Add onion and pepper to the skillet. Cook 3 - 4 minutes until softened.
Finely chop parsley while onion cooks.
Add tomatoes, sausage, wine, oregano, salt, and pepper to skillet. Simmer on high 10 minutes.

Back to the Pasta:
Remove pasta from microwave; drain.
Pour pasta over sauce and combine.
Add parsley; sprinkle with Parmesan.