With summer here, no one wants their oven on all day, challenges of a food blogger who loves to bake!
I fell in love with our local cheese shop, I had to try everything and even picked up a beautiful pancetta end. A delicious “SAUCE” entertained my thoughts…..but I knew it had to be made in my Slow Cooker for low and slow flavors. Our farmers market has incredible choices of sausages in the summer. We tasted all of the many flavors and chose the Veal Italian sausage. I also had a package of spicy sausage, lucky me. The flavors were starting to come together, now for veggies. Roast them in your oven in the morning, along with the sausages when the weather is still cool, well it is in Maine… they were giving away garlic scapes at my favorite farm stand, so I had to add them.
So this sauce is even better the next day, you will want to bathe in, yes it’s that good, something like the pasta those cute waiters will serve you in Florence, with their sweet smiles, knowing you have no idea what they are saying, but it doesn’t matter because they are serving a gorgeous pasta dish that even your Italian Grandmother would be proud of you for making. Love you Grandma Frances.
Ingredients
- 1 Pancetta end
- 1 package Veal Italian Sausage
- 1 package Spicy Sausage
- 1 large Vidalia Onion sliced
- 4 large tomatoes
- 1 jar Pasta Sauce~ Silver Palate
- 1 container Chicken Stock
- Olive Oil
- 1 package Ziti Pasta
- garlic scapes
- Fresh Grated Parmesan~ 1 cup
- Mozzarella~ 2 cups shredded
Directions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cover baking sheet with foil, place sausages on sheet, bake until brown, (flip after 10 minutes to other side)
- In a bowl, toss veggies with a couple TBSP Olive Oil. On a separate baking sheet roast veggies, onions, tomatoes, garlic scapes until soft and tender.
- Add sausages, pancetta, Sauce, Chicken Stock and veggies to Crock Pot. Cook on low 7-8 hours of on Low for 4-5 hours. Remove scapes and pancetta end.
- Cook Ziti pasta as directed.
- In a glass baking dish, spray with PAM, add pasta, 2-3 cups of sauce ( make sure pasta is all covered), Parmesan Cheese and Mozzarella Cheese. Bake at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes or until brown and bubbly.
- Serve with extra Parmesan Cheese and fresh basil, my yummy garlic bread, salad, and a bottle of Chianti! Bon Apetito! Nettie <3
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This looks amazing. I can almost smell it. thank you for this beautiful meal
Susan
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Thank you Susie Q! Nettie
Shared and pinned this lovely dish! Yum!
Thank you Cyd!! Nettie
My pleasure. Looks so yummy.
I love baked ziti and in the slow cookers all the better! Delish!
Thank you Serena! Nettie
I love anything with hot sausage and my family loves pasta dishes. Add that to the fact that you can let the slow cooker do most of the work and I’d have to say this one’s a winner. PS: had to google garlic scapes!
We learned about garlic scapes when Mackenzie was at garden camp, Oh my HEAVEN! It is my favorite summer treat! This sauce really is amazing, lot a pot of gold but better…
This looks amazing and that you did it in the slow cooker – I’m impressed!
Thank you Maureen! Nettie
Thank you for sharing your fantastic recipe on #TheWeekendSocial ! I am always thrilled to see your amazing contributions to the Link Party! I hope to see you again this Thursday at 9 PM EST.
XoXo
Heidy L. McCallum
Thank you Heidy! Great party! Nettie