Krimey Kreations: Cooking: Spaghetti 'n' Sausage

First Post - Welcome!!

Question: How do you get kids excited about cooking dinner?
Answer: Make it a game!

I found the original inspiration for this recipe here, and then I decided it might be more tasty with Chicken Apple Sausage instead of hot dogs. Enjoy!

Spaghetti 'N' Sausage

1/2 box of Spaghetti

1 12. oz. package of Chicken Apple Sausage or other sausage of your choice

2 tbl. olive oil

1 tsp. salt

3 tbl. butter (or 3 tbl. of olive oil)

I gathered the kids into the kitchen and presented our ingredients: Spaghetti & Sausage (the first time around we used Chicken Apple Sausage, by you can use any sausage you like.)

I sliced up all the sausage into 1/2 inch discs.

Then, I let the kids get to work. At first we used a kabob skewer to poke holes in the meat, but then I realized the spaghetti was thick enough to cut through without breaking. We stuck various numbers of spaghetti sticks through various piece of sausage. My son preferred 8 pieces of sausage per spaghetti stick. My daughter went with 3 pieces of sausage attached to 3 spaghetti sticks. On one go round, I put 8 sticks of spaghetti through 1 piece of sausage.

We arranged them on the tray, ready to pour into a pot of boiling water and included some extra spaghetti to cook at the same time. I added 2 tablespoons of olive oil and 1 teaspoon of salt to the water, and boiled it all per the directions on the spaghetti package.