Sausage and White Bean Stew with Polenta

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Punxsutawney Phil predicted 6 more weeks of winter recently and the only positive I'll take from that prediction is we get to enjoy stew and soup season a little longer. While my husband isn't a big soup eater in the warmer months, I do eat it year round. Because of that, I usually like to break out the recipes that I know he'll enjoy during the cold months of the year so I can save my favorites for the warmer months and not feel guilty if he opts to eat something other than what I make then. Jason will try to put sausage in any and every soup or stew, so he's lost his chili making privileges at home. He's ruined 2 good batches of chili by putting sausage in the pot, knowing that it's something that I, nor or daughter, will eat. Alas, even though he's not allowed to make chili anymore, I did find a Sausage and White Bean Stew with Polenta recipe on Golden Blossom Honey that I would be more than fine with him cooking any time he pleases. 

Even though Jason wants to believe he's a master chef, he's not very good in the kitchen. Breakfast foods I can trust him with, but anything else is always hit or miss. However, this is a recipe that I'm pretty sure that even he couldn't mess up if he tried. There are minimal, easy to prepare ingredients tossed into this stew and it's so quick to get it to all come together, there really isn't time for him to randomly add extra spices or ingredients that he assumes will just all work out (usually, it doesn't lol). That way you know that it's going to come out perfect every single time. For a vegetarian version, you could replace the sausage with sauteed mushrooms or even seitan or tofu and still have a delicious and hearty stew. Any way you prepare it, it's a nice cold weather comfort food. If we're going to be hanging on to these wintry conditions for an extra month, we might as well make the best of it with tasty stews like this one, right?

Ingredients

2 teaspoons olive oil

3/4 pound Italian sausage, casings removed, cut into 1-inch chunks

1/2 cup dry white wine

2 (14 1/2 ounce) cans diced tomatoes

2 tablespoons GOLDEN BLOSSOM HONEY

1/2 teaspoon dried basil

1/2 teaspoon dried oregano

2 (15 ounce) cans cannellini beans, drained and rinsed

1 (16 -18 ounce) ready-made plain polenta roll

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