Pasta Alfredo with Italian Sausage

Pasta Alfredo with Italian Sausage                   from: Cindy Savoldi

1 lb. Italian sausage                               about 10 ozs. frozen peas

1 lb. Pasta (I prefer penne)                    fresh sliced mushrooms

2 cloves garlic, crushed                                    1 pkg. dry Alfredo mix

olive oil

            (Heat salted water, and boil pasta while cooking sausage. During the last three minutes of boiling the pasta, I add the peas and cook them at the same time. ) Slice sausage links.  Cook in about 1 tbsp olive oil with crushed cloves of garlic until sausage cooked.  If using mushrooms, saute in olive oil and garlic drippings from sausage.  (You may need to drain some grease.)  Prepare alfredo sauce as directed on package.  Drain pasta and peas.  Add alfredo sauce, mushrooms, and sausage to pasta and peas and toss.  Serve immediately with parmesan cheese.