The penne with radicchio, broccoli, mild sausage, roasted peppers and olive oil ($15) was well balanced and skillfully cooked.

Different eateries offer hot or mild sausage, or both.

The oysters are sublime, with or without a side of mild, grilled sausages.

Penne tossed with mild Italian sausage and cream was too timorous and lacking pepper for my taste.

If you can't find chorizo, substitute hot or mild Italian sausage, or kielbasa.

It can be an intense, spicy sausage filled with blood pudding, or a milder white sausage composed of chicken forcemeat.

Siskonmakkara is a mild, Finnish fresh sausage made of pork, cooked before serving.

The two back thighs are reserved for the prosciutto; the rest of the pig is made into salami, sausages and cotechino, a mild fresh sausage.

The savory assortment here included cuts of mild grilled sausages, drizzled with mustard and set into a hill of soft sautéed cabbage.

Hot or mild Italian sausages are garlicky and spicy; $30.75 for five pounds.