Land And Sea Stew - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 lb. Italian sausage
1 32 oz. can plum tomatoes
4 cans clam juice
1 can baby clams or 12 fresh (chopped) clams and juice
1 large onion, chopped
2 to 4 cloves of garlic, crushed
1 lb. rotelli pasta
2 Tbsp. olive oil
dried sweet basil
fennel seed
salt to taste
1/2 c. red cooking wine

Preparation

Remove sausage from casing.
Crumble and saute.
Remove fat on paper towel.
In 2 tablespoons of olive oil, saute onion and garlic.
Chop tomatoes coarsely.
Place all ingredients in a saucepan, add sweet basil, fennel seed to taste and 1/2 cup of cooking wine.
Simmer 45 minutes.
Add clam juice, heat to a boil. Cook rotelli according to directions.
Add pasta and clams to mixture.
Stir and serve.