Pasta with Sausage and Asparagus Sauce

I love cooking with sausage, and particularly because I have access to some of the best sausage around. Oyama Sausage make small batches of fresh sausages every week. Anytime that I am at Granville Island I make sure to pick up a few different ones for the freezer. Their lamb sausages are to die for!!! For this recipe I used a couple of spicy Italian sausages.

Pasta with Sausage and Asparagus
~ 1-2 tbsp olive oil
~ 2 medium sized shallots
~ 3-4 garlic cloves
~ 2 sausages
~ 5 tomatoes, chopped, or 1 28oz can diced tomatoes
~ 5 spears asparagus
~ pasta

Saute chopped shallots and minced garlic in olive oil 1-2 minutes. Remove sausage meat from casings. Add to pan, breaking up with spoon as it cooks, about 8-10 minutes.

Add tomatoes, salt & pepper and simmer for about 15-20 minutes.

Meanwhile, boil water and cook pasta according to directions. When pasta is almost done, add asparagus to sauce.

Toss pasta with sauce. Serve topped with parmesan cheese. Bon appetit!