italian-sausage

This creamy taleggio mac and cheese is the classiest comfort food casserole we've ever witnessed. Grab some tangy Italian cheese and get cracking!

Short Stack Editions are tiny tomes with recipes that focus on one ingredient. Their first compilation cookbook is a vibrant collection with an impressive author roster of great chefs, and we couldn’t be more excited to cook our way through. Prepare yourself for some brand-new dishes from familiar names, and if holiday dinner is the name…

If you think your encased-meat knowledge is above par, you may want to take this 80-page long trip around Planet Sausage via Ship It Appliances, an online British kitchen appliance retailer with a killer research department. That’s right, free shipping on your new fridge and a comprehensive guide detailing everything about 80 of the most beloved sausages around the world, complete with…

Food Republic’s column Ask Your Butcher seeks to answer FAQs in the world of butchery. Ethically minded butcher Bryan Mayer has opened butcher shops and restaurants and has trained butchers in the U.S. and abroad. He helped develop the renowned butcher-training program at Fleisher’s. Today, he consults with farmers, butchers, chefs and anyone else who will listen. In each column,…

One thing we’ve learned during Italian-American Week, besides how much we truly love all kinds of stuffed pasta, is that there is no Italian food without sausage. While Italy is world-famous for its cured meats and sausages, the country’s fresh varieties are not to be trifled with. Whether they’re hot off the grill in a…

Welcome to America's Test Kitchen, the promised land of troubleshooting your most basic cooking fails and fixing problems you never knew you had. The editors' new cookbook: The Make-Ahead Cook, is an ever-useful guide that will unobtrusively lead you away from the the take-out menus and back into the kitchen where a much better dinner awaits…

If you read Food Republic, you don't need 22 reasons to pick up a pack, reel or even case of sausages tonight. You don't even need one, because you love sausage and we do too. In honor of sizzling grills, all our favorite condiments and how truly magical it is to bite into a perfect…

That bastion of investigative food journalism, the New York Post, is reporting on the sad decline of yet another erstwhile staple of Big City cuisine: the once ubiquitous sausage slice, apparently, is headed the way of chicken à la king and other formerly fancied foodstuffs that have fallen out of fashion in contemporary society. “It’s…

You don't see much of the supreme pizza anymore. It's either pepperoni or sausage, rarely both, and even rarer still with the perfect accompaniment of sautéed peppers and onions which blister slightly in the heat of the oven. This is a pizza, friends, one you should re-familiarize yourself with. Frozen pizzas come in supreme. Hot…

You too can witness the melty stretch of mozzarella as you lift up a scoop of sausage and kale pasta bake, thanks to Food Republic's chamber of culinary wonder: our Test Kitchen. When we're not centrifuging and sous-viding stuff (note: we have never done this), we're throwing together comfort food dishes like this homestyle rigatoni…

Is there anything more comforting than a humongous bowl of hearty pasta? And could anything possibly prep your stomach better for the feast ahead? We've rounded up a few of our most popular pasta dishes for a comforting, low-key dinner before the ham hits the oven. Just think of it in gift-giving terms: you give…

Sometimes you know what you're going to make as a main course. Sometimes you're hellbent on one side dish. Sometimes, both. But if you're simply looking for a recipe with sausage, we've got you covered tonight. Here are our 9 favorite sausage recipes we've ever published. And remember, you can complete the meal with ideas…

Former New York Times restaurant critic Sam Sifton released an awesome Thanksgiving book full of classic, fool-proof recipes for the big day. Read our interview, Sam Sifton Wrote The Book On Thanksgiving, and try out a few of the dishes he was kind enough to loan us, like this cornbread dressing recipe. Here is a recipe…

One of our big goals in last month's grill-centric Test Kitchen was inventing easy new ways to trick out hot dogs. We discovered our ability to pair a sausage with the toppings that best suit it. First up: the Italian dog. One of our favorite side dishes with any Italian classic, like gooey homemade eggplant…

Chicagoans get a bad reputation when it comes to food. Thanks to SNL’s Super Fans, people think that every meal in the Windy City consists of deep-dish pizza, over-dressed hot dogs, and Polish sausage. That’s patently false. You can combine (at most) two of those items into a meal. Eating all three is only permissible…

Thanksgiving is a pretty gluten-free-friendly holiday, all things considered — the turkey's safe, as long as you've used a reputable stock to baste it, potatoes are good, veggies are good...aaand we come to the stuffing. So tempting. So moist and chewy, so crisp and savory. So perfect on a perfect bite of turkey, cranberry, veggies…

Here's some simple cooking logic that will take you far in life: pasta cooks in liquid, wine is a liquid, therefore pasta can cook in wine. This is definitely not the time to break out that fancy, expensive bottle you've been carefully aging for years. Instead, dispense some wine out of the box right into…

Castelluccio lentils come from the town of the same name in Umbria — actually its full name is Castelluccio di Norcia — in the high plain of the Monti Sibillini, a beautiful and not very traveled area of central Italy. These specialty lentils are very small, pale brownish green in color, with a nutty taste,…

If we had any problem with fat-on-fat-on-carb violence, we would have never featured the grilled macaroni and cheese sandwich as Sandwich of the Week. For this very reason, I've selected today's totally made-up and largely ignored national food holiday for lunch. Sausage pizza. Very random. Does pepperoni fall within the acceptable realm of sausage? Can…

Stromboli won't exactly take offense if you call it a calzone, but then again, it's an inanimate object. A very tasty one, at that. A stromboli is not a calzone, however. Calzones are stuffed and folded over. We liken the stromboli more to a deli wrap containing things a wrap could not possibly aspire to…

San Francisco doesn't necessarily conjure up visions of pizza. I mean, this isn't "super tasty bread of the week" or "large volume of excellent Chinese food of the week." We assume that's just one of the reasons San Fran pizza kings Bruno DiFabio and Tony Gemignani of famed Tony’s Pizza Napoletana, along with restaurateur Hans…

In honor of national hot dog season, we present to you the Italian grandaddy of all elongated meat in a bun: The sausage and pepper hero. We're not even going to tell you to go out and buy one for lunch. This is all you. If you have a grill, you can make it right.…

This breakfast burrito recipe offers up a quick, easy way to start your day. Here, we're using leftovers from a dinner of sausage and peppers and adding some potatoes, but this is just one way to stuff your burrito. Feel free to substitute whatever leftovers you find in your fridge, or go to the store…