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Timothy Zakrzewski

3 *NEW* Cranberry Orange Sausage Recipies

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Breakfast Strata | Brie Pinwheels | Cornbread Dressing

Cranberry Orange Sausage is a big fan favorite amongst the Boulder Sausage fanbase. The flavors compliment eachother perfectly and leave your taste buds wanting more!

These three recipies each carry their own weight as a breakfast, an appetizer and a side dish respectivley, the beauty being in how differntly these flavors can combine depending what other ingredients they are paired with.

For even more recipes head to our recipe page!

Breakfast Strata with Cranberry Orange Sausage

Ingredients:

  • 2 packages of Boulder cranberry-orange sausage
  • 12 cups of cubed stale french bread
  • 1 1/2 cup sweetened dried cranberries
  • 8 eggs
  • 1 1/2cups milk
  • 3/4th cup sour cream
  • 1 tablespoon orange zest
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon pepper
  • 1 tablespoon maple syrup

How to:

  • Coat a 13×9-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
  • Cook sausage over medium heat 8 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until cooked though and drain.
  • Put half the cubed bread in the pan and top with half of the sausage, half of the cranberries. Make one more layer.
  • Mix eggs, milk, sour cream, maple syrup, orange zest, salt and pepper with wire whisk until well blended; pour over mixture in pan. Cover and keep in refridgerator about 8-14 hours.
  • Heat oven to 350°F. Bake covered 20 minutes. Uncover; bake 30ish more minutes then cut and serve warm.

Brie & Cranberry Orange Sausage Pinwheels

Ingredients:

  • 1 pkg Boulder cranberry-orange sausage
  • 1 pkg pastry
  • 1 can jelled cranberries
  • slices of brie cheese
  • 2 choves diced garlic
  • 1 tablesoon of rosemary chopped finely
  • 1 tablespoon sage chopped finely
  • 1 teaspoon thyme chopped finely
  • egg wash

How to:

  • Preheat oven to 400°F, and line two baking sheets each with a sheet of parchment.
  • Thaw out the puff pastry dough.
  • In a medium skillet over medium heat, cook the Boulder Sausage Cranberry Orange Sausage, with the garlic until cooked through.
  • Add the chopped herbs and cook for two minutes more, stirring often. Drain and set aside
  • Spread your egg wash onto the puff pastry then spread the jellied cranberry sauce onto the pastry.
  • Top the cranberry sauce with sausage then a brie and roll the pastry up.
  • Cut 10-12 slices, and place each slice on the baking dish. Add one more coat of egg wash and bake for 15-20 minutes.

Cornbread Dressing with Cranberry Orange Sausage

Ingredients:

  • 1 large pan cornbread
  • 2 cups pecans
  • 3 chopped celery
  • 1 small chopped onion
  • 8 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 1 package of Boulder Sausage cranberry-orange sausage
  • 2 cups cranberries
  • 1 cup diced granny smith apples
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup packed fresh flat-leafed parsley leaves
  • 2 cups chicken broth

How to:

  • Preheat oven to 325° F.
  • Cut corn bread into 1/2-inch cubes and bake on baking sheets for about 15-20 minutes until dry. Transfer corn bread from 1 pan to a large bowl and in pan toast pecans in oven until insides are golden, 10 to 20 minutes.
  • Chop apples, onion and celery. In a 12-inch skillet cook the onions and celery in butter with salt and pepper to taste over moderately low heat until transparent.
  • Add sausage to the pan and cook over medium heat, until sausage is cooked through.
  • In a saucepan sautee the cranberries with sugar over high heat, stirring consistently. Chop parsley.
  • Mix corn bread, sausage mixture, pecans,cranberries, parsley, broth, and salt and pepper to taste and toss together. Cool completely. Stuffing may be made up to this point 1 day ahead and chilled, covered. Bring stuffing to room temperature before proceeding.\
  • Bake for 1 hour. Keep covered for 45min and uncover the last 15.

Scape pesto and sausage pasta

Farmers Market Sausage & Garlic Scape Pesto Pasta

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Saturday morning Farmers Markets are a thing of beauty. Fresh produce and local products offer the opportunity to try new ingredients in new and fun ways. Cristina Thompson recently had the great idea to use kale & garlic scapes to create a garlicky pesto pasta dish- filled with Boulder Sausage Italian Sausage!

Thanks for sharing Cristina!

Garlic Scape Pesto Recipe:

  • 1 or 2 bunches of garlic scapes (to taste! it’s really garlicky)
  • 1/4 – 1/2 cup of olive oil, depending on taste! 
  • 4 – 5 leaves of fresh green kale, stalks removed and torn into smaller pieces
  • Handful of fresh basil (about 1/2 cup)
  • 1/2 Lemon 
  • 1/4 cup of fresh Parmigiano Reggiano 
  • 1/4 cup of fresh toasted pine nuts 
  • Salt and pepper to taste 

First, toss the garlic scapes into a food processor and blend until no large pieces remain. Next, toss in the toasted pine nuts and blend until combined. Then you’ll add about 1/4 cup (or a very large drizzle) of olive oil, and pulse again until combined. Add the Parmigiano Reggiano and pulse until combined. Finally – add the lemon juice, the basil, and the torn kale – and blend until combined. Add  salt and pepper to taste, and feel free to add more olive oil if it looks too dry for your taste. Pesto, done! 


Garlic Scape, Swiss Chard, and Boulder Sausage Pasta 

  • 1 Pack of Boulder Italian Sausage (ground sausage, without casing)
  • 4 – 5 big leaves of Swiss Chard, stalks removed and torn into pieces
  • 10 – 15 cherry tomatoes 
  • 1/4 Lemon 
  • Parmigiano Reggiano to taste
  • Pasta of choice (I used multicolored pasta from Trader Joes)
    • Don’t forget to reserve pasta water! 
  • 3 – 4 Tablespoons of garlic scape pesto (or any pesto you like) 

Start out by cooking the Boulder Sausage in a saucepan on medium heat until cooked through. Make sure to chunk it into small pieces for the pasta while cooking. Add the swiss chard to the cooked sausage – the fat from the sausage is perfect to cook the chard in! Cut your cherry tomatoes in half, and throw them into the chard & sausage mixture. Cook for about 5 minutes, or until the tomatoes blister. Turn the heat to medium – low, and squeeze in the lemon juice and grate Parmigiano Reggiano into the mixture. Add the garlic scape pesto, and stir to combine to create a sauce. After the pasta is finished cooking, reserve 1/4 cup of pasta water and add to your sauce mixture and stir. Drain the pasta, and add to the sauce to combine. Make sure to taste and add salt and pepper if needed, and top with Parmigiano Reggiano! 

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