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This recipe showcases Capellini pasta.    Capellini is not something which I have had a very easy time finding here in the UK actually. Capellini, or angel hair pasta traditionally cooks in a fraction of the time as regular pastas.  I decided to do an all in one pan dish, with the pasta actually cooking in the sauce.  I thought Capellini would be perfect for this because of it's shorter cooking time. I used fresh chorizo sausage, which was easily crumbled and gave the sauce a bit of a kick.  Feel free to use the dried version as well.  Both are good. Some tinned chopped tomatoes, a tin of drained borlotti beans, some frozen peas along with onion, garlic and stock and I had a very delicious entree indeed, and all in one pan. I like it when I can cut back on the washing up don't you???   All in all it made for a lovely and fairly quick supper.  A scattering of grated cheddar on top and we were good to go.  The pasta worked very well...

I was recently contacted and asked if I would like to try out some sausages.   HECK is a  company owned by the Keebles who are a family of farmers and sausage enthusiasts.  They produce a range osf 8 differen premium sausage varieties ranging from the traditional 97% pork to the more unique Chicken and square sausages.  They also produce several gluten free varieties.  You can read more about how they produce their sausages here .  We really love sausages in this house!  Not the cheap nasty ones out there that are yuck, yuck, yuck . . . we are a bit more discerning in our tastes and those cheap and nasty ones just have a horrible consistency  and are loaded with fat.  We do NOT like those . . . so we are always up for trying something which is better.  Getting to try new things is the best part of my job! These are farmers market quality.  It can't be bad and with Christmas coming up with all of the entertaining that entails, we w...