Italian Sausage Pot

Italian sausage and vegetables all ready together in a crockpot ready to serve atop a pile of pasta or stuffed into hoagie rolls for sandwiches. A good meal for a big family or just what you need when you've got a hungry crowd over on game day or race day. Easy to halve for a smaller crowd.

• Ready In: 6 hrs 15 mins
• Serves: 12-16

Ingredients

• 4  lbs mild Italian sausage
• 2  lbs frozen chopped spinach, thawed
• 2  lbs  frozen  yellow squash, thawed or 2  lbs  fresh  yellow squash, sliced
• 2  onions, quartered and thinly sliced
• 2  quarts  spaghetti sauce (I prefer Classico)
• 1  lb bow tie pasta, cooked

Directions

1. Prick sausage all over.
2. Put sausage into large pot, cover with cold water, and simmer for 10 minutes to extract excess grease. This can be done the night before.
3. In 6-quart oval crockpot layer half the sausage and half of each other ingredient. Repeat.
4. Cook on high for 3 hours then on low for 3-4 hours.
5. Serve over favorite pasta (I used bowties tonight), topped with parmesan. Its low-carb if you control the pasta quantities.