Cooking: Rustic Italian Sausage Pasta Sauce

[tersa]

So, recipe #2 out of the slow cooker cookbook I got around the new year [!](I still need to post #1, I know :/) is a rustic Italian sausage pasta sauce that intrigued me because (a) the picture of it looked good and (b) there isn't a single tomato anywhere in it. Just aromatics, sausage, and lentils (which I discovered while doing research on New Year

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[tersa]

because celery is gross

*fistbump*

I've actually gotten to a point where I don't mind it if it's finely chopped and not a lot--it just becomes a background note that I think can add something to a dish.

But most places add it in large amounts and huge chunks and lol NO.

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I should note this probably could be halved to only need a 4-quart crockpot, but halving 3/4 and 1/3 of a cup was more than I wanted to deal with. I have a 6-quart (or maybe 8, not sure), so it was nbd to just go with the original scale.

[tersa]

But if I made the sauce myself, there's no way I am actually buying that terrible vegetable and bringing it into my kitchen!

lol. That's pretty much my view on it. :D

I need to get a crockpot at some point.

So worth it. I have a 4- and 6/8-quart oval, and I use them all the time in the winter for soups, stews, and chili. I bought that cookbook because I'm intrigued with the idea of branching out and using them to make things like casseroles--they're basically standalone stone ovens.

I've also discovered they're fabulous for making chicken stock.