Pasta with Party-Hearty Red Sauce

Ingredients

• One lb. pasta (fusilli is nice)
• One large can (29 oz.) chopped tomatoes
• One can tomato paste
• One cup vegetarian broth (chicken flavor is good)
• One can (5.75 oz) whole, pitted black olives, drained
• One package vegetarian Italian sausages
• Four tablespoons olive oil
• One teaspoon dried basil
• One teaspoon garlic salt
• Six quarts water salted with ½ teaspoon salt

Directions

Put water on to boil for pasta. Cook sausages according to package directions. Slice sausages into ½ inch pieces. Put tomatoes in saucepan, add tomato paste, vegetarian broth, olive oil, drained whole olives, cooked and sliced sausages, dried basil and salt. Stir and heat through to boiling. Simmer sauce while pasta cooks.

Presto!

Good and good for you!

Robin Jenkins  (2/12/06)