you MUST try this!!!

new favorite recipe, adapted from Rachel Ray (whose show i cannot stand, but whose cookbook i adore).

super stuffed french bread pizza!














before you get cooking, get 12 oz of chopped frozen spinach defrosting.

in a large pan (we use a "jumbo fryer") start off by getting about 5 links of sweet italian sausage (casings removed) browning on the stove, in about 1 Tbsp of olive oil.

while that's going on, chop up 1 medium sweet vidalia onion and 1 orange bell pepper.

once the sausage is browned, dump the onion and bell pepper into the pan. add 2 or 3 large cloves of minced garlic (or 1-2 tsp jarred minced garlic). stir it up. saute till you think the onions and bell pepper look fabulous.

while THAT'S going on, take a french bread baguette, and cut it length-wise. then cut the whole thing in thirds the other direction (you should have 6 "pizza crusts"). tear out the soft bread on the inside, so that the bread is stuff-able.

drain the thawed spinach and then get a bunch more water out with paper towels. add the spinach to the pan and stir it up. when it's mixed, take it off the stove and transfer it to a large mixing bowl.

add 1 package (15 oz) of part-skim ricotta and 1/2 c parmesan cheese to the mixing bowl. or, if you love parm like me, add a whole cup =) mix it up.

now you're ready to stuff the bread. load it up! you might even have a little left over, but try to really cram it all in there. mound shredded mozarella on top. really mound it - it will be so much yummier that way.

stick it in the oven at 425 for 10 minutes or so. when the cheese looks too good to resist for a moment longer, take it out.















eat it up.















the end.

(seriously. try it. AMAZING.)

p.s. hi, eve! =)