Anton's Linguini Rafael Copycat

I love spicy food's Note:

My husband is crazy about Linguini Rafael at the Vancouver restaurant Anton's. After many attempts to get the recipe right, this is the one he said is as (if not more) delicious than the original. Beware: nothing healthy about this dish!

• Total Time: 35 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 5 hot Italian sausages (johnsonville)
• 3 cups baby spinach
• 3/4 cup feta cheese (with brine)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon dried chili pepper flakes
• 1 teaspoon ground pepper
• 6 cups linguine (cooked)
• 1/8 cup parmesan cheese

Directions:

1. In a pan on the stove top, cook the sausages as directed on the package.
2. When they are almost fully cooked, remove from pan and thinly slice
3. return slices to pan (with grease still in the pan).
4. add chili pepper flakes, salt and peppar and stirfry until cooked through (no longer red in the middle) over medium heat.
5. add crumbled feta (with 1/4 cup of brine) to the pan.
6. add spinach on top of the sausage mixture.
7. turn heat to low and let it simmer together until spinach is completely wilted.
8. mix it all together in the pan.
9. serve with linguini.
10. sprinkle lightly with feta.