Crockpot Pasta with Sausage

Yeah, it's been a while since I posted.  Hopefully I will begin to post at least once or twice a week!  Anyway, this pasta sauce is amazing.  I've made it once and I will NEVER go back to a jarred sauce.  We've been through every jar known to man.  Everything is just way to sweet or just yucky.  This sauce tastes extremely fresh and has minimal ingredients! Guess what else??? It's healthy! WOOHOO!  Ok, so on to the good stuff.

Ingredients:

• 1 lb lean chicken Italian sausage, casings removed
• 1 tsp extra virgin olive oil
• 5 cloves garlic, smashed
• 28 oz crushed tomatoes
• fresh cracked pepper
• 1 small can tomato sauce

I added another can of tomato sauce because Hubby thought it wasn't "saucy" enough.  This will be an experiment!  I also used regular Italian sausage.  Why? Well because I'm in the middle of nowhere and they don't sell the good stuff here.  

Yeah I know I forgot to show my sausages.  I got a little to happy to get them in to the pan.  You'll want to remove the yucky casings on the sausages.  Just take a knife and slice down the side of the sausage.  They will come off easily that way!  

Smash you up some fresh garlic.  YUM!

Brown your sausage minus the casing in a pan.  As it's browning you'll want to break it up into smaller pieces. 

After you brown your sausage set it aside and wipe out your pan.  Let the pan get hot and add your oil.  Toss in the garlic and let it get a little brown.  Just don't burn it!

You'll want to toss all this into your crockpot.  Nothing fancy just dump it in.  Then add your pepper!  Then you just cover this and let it cook for 6-8 hours on low.  I know, I know, that's the hardest part.