Saturdays are sometimes more hectic than our regular workdays-what with the laundry to do and errands to run. There is also usually grocery shopping and some kind of baking to be done as well.

Today I didn’t feel like coming up with anything for dinner and as we’ve had pizza all week and dinner at the Pub last night, we didn’t want to go out either. Luckily I had some cooked sausages in the fridge and a bottle of marinara sauce in the pantry. Also, I picked up some fresh mozzarella and a garlic basil focaccia while we were out running around. So I decided to make a sort of sausage “Sloppy Giuseppe”.

I chopped some onions and peppers and grated some carrot finely. These I tossed into a cast iron skillet along with some olive oil and the sausages (red-wine garlic variety), cut in quarters. Then, a spoonful of  some minced fresh garlic. Once those were all sizzling I added a jar of roasted garlic marinara sauce, a large spoonful of pesto from the fridge and some dried oregano.

I let these all cook down together until everything was thick and aromatic.

I cut two pieces of Focaccia and split and buttered them, sprinkled on a (very) little garlic salt and put them under the broiler until browned. I put a slotted-spoonful of the sausage mixture on each of the focaccia bottoms then topped the sauce with a couple of slices of fresh mozzarella. These I returned to the broiler until the cheese was beginning to brown and bubble. Replace the tops and put together a green salad and whoo-hoo a great dinner with leftovers and pantry staples and very little fuss. Que Buono!