Italian sausage is ground pork often flavored with garlic and fennel seed. It comes in two different styles, sweet or hot.

Italian pasta dinner. Pair ground Italian sausage with rigatoni pasta and top with a cheesy sauce loaded with sun dried tomatoes and baby spinach. This is a great recipe for busy weeknights when ...

Stir in the ground fennel seeds and chopped garlic ... When the pasta is cooked, use a slotted spoon to transfer the pasta into the sausage pan and stir everything together.

Pasta matters. While this sauce is delicious on any good-quality pasta, I found it particularly good on short, ridged pasta ...