Italian sausage with fusilli and escarole
"Arri London" > wrote
> Nancy Young wrote:
>>
>> My verdict: This was a delicious dish, although it is more of a cold
>> weather meal. I would only add half a pound of pasta next time, and
>> looking at the picture they have on the card, they didn't use a whole
>> pound of pasta, either. Also, I use bot hot and mild sausage. This has
>> earned a spot in my keeper recipes book.
> Does escarole have any other names in the US? I never see anything by
> that name sold around here. Presumably a bitter lettuce would work?
When I looked up escarole, I see that it is related to chicory and is
sometimes called broad chicory or common chicory. It was thisclose
to the chicory at the store yesterday. In my experience, those types of
greens are always kind of shoved in together at the supermarket, maybe
you just never noticed it?
nancy
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