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Italian Chicken and Sausage Stew plus Giveaway!

By: 👩‍🦳 Linda · · · 🗨 38 Comments

Hi everyone! After several weeks of vacationing, I am back to immerse myself in the joys and trails of the blogosphere. I have some exciting news to share. Some weeks ago I was approached by the JoyBauer.com team – online home of the “Today Show” nutritionist and “Food Cures” author Joy Bauer on the possibility of partnering with them. Of course I agreed and they sent me two of Joy’s most popular books, Food Cures and Slim & Scrumptious.

Joy Bauer is one of the country’s foremost nutritionists. In her book Food Cures, she uses a 4-step approach for weight loss, improving skin and hair, and treatment of common ailments like heart disease, arthtritis, diabetes, osteoporosis, cataracts and macular degeneration and memory loss. The 4-steps are pretty easy to follow. In Step 1, she starts with the basics which embodies a common sense approach to improving the condition of the said ailment. Step 2 is a grocery list of foods with high levels of nutrients essential for treating that condition. Step 3 is going above and beyond with additional things one might try. Last but not least, Step 4 lists sample meals for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack options. Some delicious recipes like Butternut Squash Soup and Orange Pepper Beef Stir-fry are also included.

Her Slim & Scrumptious cookbook has more than 75 delicious and healthy meals interspersed with pictures. The recipes are grouped into breakfast and brunch, soups and salads, stews, chilis, and burgers, and entrees sorted by categories, along with veggie sides, and a nice assortment of snacks and sweets. Many of the recipes have a visceral appeal to me and I knew exactly which one I wanted to make first.

The Italian Chicken and Sausage Stew is a delicious and hearty one-pot meal sufficient to feed a crowd. My family enjoyed this dish very much and I will certainly cook this again and again. Though the ingredients list is a little long, the preparation is rather quick and easy. You will not be disappointed.


I cooked this dish some weeks back before my travels and interestingly, I had a similar dish known as Spontaneous Heating in Rapid City, South Dakota in my post Ma Biren Goes West – Part II. Spontaneous Heating was very tasty but as the name suggests, it was also quite spicy.

Joy’s recipe is definitely milder and is a wonderful family dish. I substituted the green beans with egg plants as I did not have any green beans on hand that day.

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And now for the giveaway, two winners will be selected randomly, one for each book. The first winner will receive Food Cures and the second winner will receive Slim & Scrumptious. Please leave a comment on this post to enter. For additional entries, please

1. Join me as follower of this blog via Google Connect and leave me a comment here stating you are now a new follower.
2. Become a fan on Facebook and leave me a comment here stating you are now a new fan. If you are already a fan, please leave me a separate comment stating that.
3. Become a follower on Twitter and leave me a comment here stating you are now a new follower. If you are already a follower, please leave me a separate comment stating that.
4. Post about this giveaway on Facebook and/or tweet about it and leave me a separate comment here stating you have posted or tweeted about this giveaway.

This giveaway will be opened till 9:00pm Central time Wednesday, August 24th, 2011. I will announce the winners on Thursday, August 25th, 2011. All the best!

Disclaimer: Although the two books were sent to me for free, I did not receive any monetary compensation for this write up. What was written are my personal thoughts and view. For full disclaimer, please click here.

Please stay tuned for recipes and posts on my trip to the United Kingdom coming up next…

Enjoy…..and have a wonderful day! 😎


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  2. DongXing says

    Hi Biren,

    Looks very appetising and delicious. I like one-pot meal – fast and less items to clean up as well. I will definitely try this as it has a lot more vegetables to “bulk” the dish to encourage the young ones to eat more healthily and the other half not to eat so much meat!

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    • Biren says

      Yes, you can certainly add more veges to it. You can also cook it ahead of time as it can take being reheated. I will be making it again in the next few days as I just bought some okra. 🙂

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  6. Lyndsey says

    Yummy…with all that meat in it. It looks very hearty, and love the flavors. Nice to have you back from vacation. I start back to school(work) tomorrow then the kids start a week later. I have to get the clinic all ready to take in those “sick” kids who don’t want to be back in school…lol!

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  17. kristy says

    What a hearty meal. How lovely you got yourself some okras as well. Nice touch! This also sounds like my kids favourite.
    Hope you’re enjoying your day.
    Kristy

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  18. Nami | Just One Cookbook says

    Yay I’m so happy you are back and I can’t wait to see the next post on UK! Congrats on this great opportunity and I’m so glad you agreed on this partnering! I’m not familiar with her and I’d love to know more about it by winning this giveaway! Whoohoo! =P This stew looks yummy. I love all kinds of recipe that I can cook in my dutch oven! =)

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    • Biren says

      Thanks Nami! I am working on the post. Lots of pictures to sort through but I hope to get at least one post out this week.

      Oh yes, I love my Le Creuset dutch ovens. Mine are the older ones without the enamel coating on the inside. They are so well seasoned, they work almost like a non-stick pan.

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    • Biren says

      Thanks Ann! I am working on the post and will be sharing new pictures than those on Facebook. There will also be recipes with each post. 🙂

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  23. wok with ray says

    This looks like a very hearty and delicious meal! With the Italian sausage and okra, oh I love okra. I like the shot of that last photo there – perfect angle. Thank you for sharing this yummy-looking dish, Biren. Have a wonderful day!

    ~ ray ~

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  24. kitchen flavours says

    Welcome back! That is one delicious looking pot of stew. We love stew, and did not cook it often enough. Would love to win any of the cookbooks, sounds great. Count me in! Have a lovely day!

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  27. denise @ quickies on the dinner table says

    Hi Biren 🙂 Glad to have you back! I do hope you had a wonderful time. Congrats on your impressive partnership with the Joy Bauer team! This casserole looks so hearty and satisfying – I love all those herbs and the inclusion of okra is very unique to me. Best of luck and many, many entries for your giveaway! Hopping over to your England post now. I wonder, did you see Paul or Ringo? 😉 hee hee

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    • Biren says

      Thanks Denise! I had a wonderful time in England. It was short and hectic but fun. Ironically those two guys spend more than half of their time here in the US. 🙂

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