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Italian Sausage with Crush ‘Ausilio’ Pepper Flakes by Chad Ogle-Riccelli, donor of the ‘Ausilio Thin Skin Italian’ pepper; submitted by Michele Ogle-Riccelli. \u201cOur family has many warmhearted memories of spending time with Grandpa Nicholas Domenico \u2018Nick\u2019 Riccelli in the kitchen making Italian sausage,\u201d says Michele. \u201cGrandma Theresa (Ausilio) Riccelli (97 years old) remembers all the times her family would spend together stuffing sausage into casings and later adding it to their pasta sauce. She will tell you that her children and grandchildren loved shaping the Italian sausage into patties and having them as a sandwich topped, of course, with fried \u2018Ausilio Thin Skin Italian\u2019 peppers and provolone cheese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[8,30,55,58],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes","tag-learn","tag-pepper","tag-recipes","tag-sausage"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nRecipe: Italian Sausage with Crushed 'Ausilio' Pepper Flakes - SeedSavers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Italian Sausage with Crushed 'Ausilio' Pepper Flakes \u201cOur family has many warmhearted memories of spending time with Grandpa Nick Riccelli in the kitchen making Italian sausage,\u201d\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/seedsavers.org\/recipe-italian-sausage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Recipe: Italian Sausage with Crushed 'Ausilio' Pepper Flakes - 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