Italian Chili or The Spaghetti Western's Long Lost Brother.

Tonight we took inventory of our pantry and found that we had about six cans of stewed, diced, or whole tomatoes, everyone different. Some how that inspired Rebekah to propose Italian Chili. We both think the best thing that Johnny Carino's has to offer is their Italian Chili soup so we were already sold on the idea. The recipe called for Italian sausage (out of it's casing), onions, and garlic (we added red peppers too) all sauteed until they were done. Next we added some leftover pasta sauce (roasted garlic) which Rebekah thought wasn't sweet enough so we added some sugar. While that warmed we added pasta (Fusilli Bucati, it would be better with something shorter though) and some beef broth. When the pasta was just about done we added zucchini (which is listed under "squash zucchini" in the Albertson's self checkout). Oh I almost forgot, basil and cayenne pepper. The results were exquisitely delicious!