Crostini All'aretina - Sausage Toast

• 1 cup highly flavored fresh Italian sausage
• 7 ounces fresh fresh stracchino cheese (crescenza, or a coarsely grated semi-hard stracchino cheese)
• fresh ground black pepper
• 1 loaf Italian bread, cut into 1/2 inch thick slices toasted in the oven

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Squeeze the sausage meat out of the casings and into a mixing bowl.
3. Add the cheese and pepper and mix very thoroughly with a fork.
4. Spread each toast with a generous helping of the sausage and cheese mixture.
5. Place on a cookie sheet.
6. Bake for 5 minutes or until the cheese has melted and the topping is bubbling.
7. Serve piping hot, straight from the oven.

highly flavored fresh italian sausage, stracchino cheese, fresh ground black pepper, italian bread

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/crostini-allaretina-sausage-toast-265940 (may not work)