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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 have a love affair going with the Bratwurst sausages that you can buy at Aldi.  They are very lean and I think they are delicious, with the flavour of fennel and spice.  Oftimes I will treat us to a meal of sauerkraut and bratwurst.  We love German food in this house.  The Toddster lived in Germany several times . . . a couple as a soldier and once as a civilian.  I lived there as a small child, in the Black Forest, when my father was in the CAF.  As a couple we have gone on holidays a few times to Germany. It's one of our favourite places to go, so it's no surprise that we love German food.   I often freeze half of the package of Bratwurst when I buy it, because well . . . there are only two of us and we can only eat so much.   One for me, one for Todd and yes . . . she is a spoiled pooch, one for Mitzie.     I had bought a turkey crown for Christmas the other day and in order to fit it into the...