Sausage, peppers, and onions with Penne

**Back again after technical difficulties kept me from posting**

Flavorful Italian Sausage with peppers, onions and pasta tossed together in a garlicy tomato sauce is one of my favorite dishes.Using both sweet and hot Italian sausage gives your taste buds the best of both worlds but feel free to use all sweet or hot to suit your liking. The key for a perfect dish of sausage and peppers to me is cooking the peppers just until they've become tender but still have a bit of crisp to them. Serve with a nice piece of bread and fresh parmesan cheese and this plate is sure to be a favorite of yours too!

Serves 4-6

1 pound link of Sweet Italian Sausage
1 pound link of Hot Italian Sausage
1 large red onion
1 medium sized Green Bell pepper
1 medium sized Yellow Bell pepper
1 medium sized Red Bell pepper
16oz can of Diced Tomatoes
16oz can of Tomato Sauce
2 cloves of Garlic
10-12 fresh basil leaves chopped
1 pound of penne pasta

Preheat your oven to 375. Place the links of sausage onto a baking sheet with a slight drizzle of olive oil on the bottom. Bake the links for about 10 to 15 minutes. Turn the sausages with tongs about halfway through cooking time. Once done, remove from the oven and set aside for now. Wash the bell peppers and cut them and the red onion into medium sized pieces. Finely mince or grate two cloves of garlic.

In a large satue pan, drizzle some olive oil and heat oven a medium high heat. Add the peppers and onions and cook for 10 minutes stirring frequently during the cooking time. The goal here is to cook the vegetables long enough where they start to become tender but still have a slight crisp to them as if they were raw. Bring a large pot of water season with plenty of salt. When the water comes to a boil, add the pasta and cook according to directions on the package.

While the peppers and onions are cooking, slice the sausage links on a bias. Add the sausage and garlic into the satue pan with the vegetables and continue cooking for about 3 minutes to give the garlic time to cook.

Add the can of diced tomatoes and tomato sauce and stir together. Add the freshly chopped basil and salt and pepper. Allow the sauce to simmer while the pasta finishes to boil. Once the pasta has been cooked, drain and add the pasta straight into the pan with the sauce. Stir together to coat all the noodles with the sauce. Serve hot with parmesan cheese.