Weekend Kitchen: Pasta con peperoni e salsicca

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If you ever find yourself on the Amalfi Coast of Italy, do yourself a favor and go here.  You can thank me later.  My sister and I spent a day at Mamma Agata's cooking school and it was amazing {side note: no one in our class believed we were sisters!  We don't know why - they kept referring to us as "black & white!".  Haha, we think it's pretty funny.}
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Here we are:
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And here is the beautiful view.  Can you imagine looking at this out of your kitchen window every day?  The gardens you see on the hillside are Mamma Agata's.
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This weekend I made one of our favorite pastas from the class:  Pasta con peperoni e salsicca (Pasta with peppers and sausage).  Unfortunately I can't post the recipe because it isn't published anywhere online and it doesn't seem right to give out Mamma Agata's secret.  She did, however, just come out with her first cookbook.  If you feel like dishing out a whole bunch of Euros, you can purchase it here.  I wish they sold it on Amazon!  I'm going to have to break down and get it because I know everything it is probably amazing.
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Back to the pasta - I searched high and low online to find a recipe that was similar.  This one is the closest that I could find.  The ingredients are similar but the technique is not. 
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Here's a few pictures from my pasta:
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This pappardelle pasta was good - it's a little wider than fettuccine.

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I canned tomato sauce this summer using Mamma Agata's recipe.

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Here's everything simmering together:

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All finished!

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Sorry about this post without a recipe, but I wanted to talk about Mamma Agata's!  I'm going to have leftovers right now. . .

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