Turkey Sausage - ThinnerTimes

LisaM · 01-15-2006, 06:19 AM

This is only after you're out a few months from the surgery. One of my husband's and my favorite simple dinners, and it had to be modified only a little.

Turkey Sausage/Pasta

Serves 1 WLS patient and 2 of the unsurgerized

1 pkg. Oscar Mayer Light Turkey Sausage
Parmesan cheese
Any pasta that you like
Cooking spray

Skin the sausage with a vegetable peeler if you're still at a stage where you shouldn't have it -- but for those who are far enough out, the skin is very thin, and I had no problem with it chewed up very fine.

Slice the two links into rounds about a half-inch thick, and keep all the juice that comes out of the package as well. Spray a frying pan lightly with the cooking spray and pour the juice from the package into the pan. Place the sausage in so that each piece has one side of the round down, and then brown on both sides almost to burnt--the darker it is, the more flavorful.

While the sausage is browning, cook whatever pasta you've chosen according to the directions on your package.

I reserved four ounces of the cooked sausage for me, sprinkled with parmesan cheese, and served the rest of the sausage over the pasta in a large bowl, also sprinkled with parmesan.

4 oz of sausage and cheese 18-20 gr protein

LizardQueen · 01-15-2006, 08:56 AM

That sounds really good! I'll have to give it a try. I love the one wls patient and 2 unsurgerized!

coptergirl · 01-15-2006, 12:57 PM

Again I will prod you, Lisa - when are you going to collect all of your terific recipes, and do up a wls cookbook?! You come up with the greatest stuff!!

LisaM · 01-15-2006, 02:48 PM

Whitney,

Thanks for the compliment, but I've picked up a couple of post-wls books, and the recipes are all gourmet, and most have things in 'em that I've never even SEEN, much less bought for my kitchen. (Capers come to mind - what the heck is a caper?)

My recipes are simple, plain, easy-to-make foods for a two-career/one-wls-surgery family. But I'm glad you guys enjoy them.

LisaM · 01-15-2006, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by LizardQueen

That sounds really good! I'll have to give it a try. I love the one wls patient and 2 unsurgerized!

I've thought about that, oddly enough (shows I work with words too much), and here's the deal. I will be darned if I'm going to call everybody but us "normal."

Normality ain't all it's cracked up to be anyway.

okiegrl · 01-15-2006, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by LisaM

Whitney,

Thanks for the compliment, but I've picked up a couple of post-wls books, and the recipes are all gourmet, and most have things in 'em that I've never even SEEN, much less bought for my kitchen. (Capers come to mind - what the heck is a caper?)

My recipes are simple, plain, easy-to-make foods for a two-career/one-wls-surgery family. But I'm glad you guys enjoy them.

I hate getting all the so called "good for you" cookbooks...most of the time they have nothing I would eat in it. This recipe sounds absolutely delicious and something we would definitely eat.

Compile your recipes for us poor starving normal people!

coptergirl · 01-15-2006, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by LisaM

Whitney,

Thanks for the compliment, but I've picked up a couple of post-wls books, and the recipes are all gourmet, and most have things in 'em that I've never even SEEN, much less bought for my kitchen. (Capers come to mind - what the heck is a caper?)

My recipes are simple, plain, easy-to-make foods for a two-career/one-wls-surgery family. But I'm glad you guys enjoy them.

No seriously - thats exactly why you need to compile them together - the other books aren't reality. Your stuff is quick, easy, and tasty...and not a caper to be found. I am soooo not a kitchen person (ok...so I microwave and use the blender), and I just turn into an idiot when i walk into the room, but your stuff is so easy that even I wouldn't be intimidated.

LisaM · 01-15-2006, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by coptergirl

No seriously - thats exactly why you need to compile them together - the other books aren't reality. Your stuff is quick, easy, and tasty...and not a caper to be found. I am soooo not a kitchen person (ok...so I microwave and use the blender), and I just turn into an idiot when i walk into the room, but your stuff is so easy that even I wouldn't be intimidated.

I give, I give... I'll start putting a little somethin-somethin together. No promises! But it will also have to have a list of things I tried but couldn't handle. For instance, hubby left on his biz trip this afternoon, so I just nuked a Lean Pocket Ham & Cheese for dinner.

Vrrrffff - it was survivable, and 25gr of protein, although I'm not sure the good Lord every really meant cheese to be that color. But I went into a carb shutdown almost immediately--not a carb coma, but just sluggish for like an hour and a half. The other one (there are two in the package) hit the garbage bin the minute I had enough energy to move again...