Photography Credit: Elise Bauer

My father found this recipe in an issue of Sunset Magazine and it sounded so good he just had to try it.

He even made the polenta from scratch instead of using the store-bought prepared version which the original recipe called for. (How cool is that?)

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Polenta with an Italian sausage tomato sauce, topped with Mozzarella – of course it was great.

You can substitute turkey sausage for the Italian sausage or even skip the sausage and use chopped zucchini instead for a vegetarian option.

Here is our slightly-modified-from-the-original version.