On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:39:31 -0700, sf wrote:


>OTOH, why would anyone want to slice a *raw* italian sausage with a
>knife? That's a smash in the making too.

I had a recipe once (from James Beard's Beard on Pasta) that had a
pasta salad in it, in which it called for slices of Italian sausage.
The slices were cooked in a pan before being added to the salad. Now,
my memory is probably faulty here, but I don't think the sausage was
pre-cooked before it was sliced and then sauteed. I could be very
wrong on this, as I don't have the book anymore: it was lost.

If anyone has the book, they could check it out... I don't expect
James Beard would have foregone pre-cooking the sausage before slicing
it, but who knows....LOL.

Christine