Italian sausage sub?

[left-of-center2012]

Hi ~

I'm posting in hopes you can help me find a recipe:

When I was in high school (back in the last century, many years ago) a school friend's mother gave me (to give to my mother) a recipe for an Italian sausage sub (hoagie?).

The recipe is long lost and our respective mothers long deceased. I've tried various recipes found online, but they just don't taste like the ones from my past.

Does any one on here have a recipe I might try? It consisted of (hot or sweet) Italian sausage, onions, green peppers, and some type of tomato concoction (perhaps tomato paste).

[Snarkoleptic]

1. I do this up in the crock pot, especially during winter months.

4-5# of hot Italian sausages (cased meat)
2 medium onions roughly chopped
1 each green & red peppers roughly chopped
6 cloves garlic minced
Two 24oz jars or marinara sauce (I'm still running through the homemade stuff I froze over the summer)
2 cups red wine

Let is simmer all day. Caution- the sausages are more breakable after the long cook, so handle with care.
Serve on hoagie rolls
Giadinera on the side

[Warpy]

3. That looks a lot like what I reemember from sub shops in Boston

The long cooking in the tomato sauce is key, along with using more garlic than you think you need. The meat has to be infused with the sauce, and the sauce has to be infused with the fat and spices from the meat.

It's just really hard to find good Italian sausage here in NM.

[elleng]

2. Kind of!

I have/had a recipe for Ital Saus w pasta, which would be fine for a sub. My problem now is I can no longer find the brand of Ital saus I used in the olden days (when my kids were KIDS! They HAVE their own kids now!) So none I've tried 'recently' compare.

I saute'd Ital saus (cut into 1/4 inch/bite sized pieces) and added chopped onions in the saus 'grease' and added o.oil if necessary. Cook til cooked through, or less because can leave on stove partly covered to cook through with vegs.

And cut up green pepper (and chopped/minced garlic,) and some chopped celery if it's around. I'd add chopped shallot now, as I'm so much more sophisticated than I was then! LOL! Added can of tomatoes (I used Del Monte stewed.) Add some wine and reduce. Add some oregano, thyme, salt and pepper.

Served over pasta. I liked/like fusilli.