Categories: Beef, Pasta 
      Yield: 4 servings 
  
           -WALDINE VAN GEFFEN 
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  1 1/2 lb Sweet/hot Italian link 
           Sausage 
  1 1/3 c  Green bell pepper -- 1x1/4" 
      2 tb Olive oil 
    3/4 lb Ziti pasta -- cooked 
           Parmesan cheese -- grated 
           Parsley bouquets 
      5 c  Marinara sauce 
     28 oz Canned tomatoes-Italian 
           Style or plum 
 10 3/4 oz Tomato puree 
      1 ts Garlic -- minced 
      4 tb Olive oil 
    1/2 c  Fresh basil -- packed, 
           Chopped 
           Salt and pepper 
  
  Bake or pan-fry the sausages until fully cooked, drain, cool. Halve the 
  sausages and cut the split sausages into 1/2" slices. Saute the bell 
  peppers 
  in olive oil over moderate heat only until their crispness is loss, but 
  peppers are not soft. In a heavy sauce pan add the tomatoes, tomato puree, 
  garlic, olive oiil and fresh basil and bring to a light simmer on moderate 
  heat. Add the sauteed pepper strips and cooked sausage and heat for 3 to 5 
  minutes. 
  Serve the pasta, topped with the sausage, peppers and salsa marinara and 
  garnish each plate with a parsley bouquet. Pass the Parmesan. Source: The 
  Olive Garden. 
   
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