What’s not to love about some perfectly seasoned grass-fed sausage and a lovely mixture of veggies all roasted together?
The beginning of this summer has been filled with baseball games, classes, lots of running around in the car, library trips, swimming, playing with cousins and more. This time of year I’m not super excited about standing in the kitchen making a mess preparing dinner to then clean up lots of pots and pans after the kids stared at their plates and pushed the food around with their forks pretending to eat something.
It just doesn’t happen.
Summer is supposed to be simple and free and low-stress.
I was checking out a newer grocery store in our area called Natural Grocers and was pleasantly surprised with their selection and prices. They carry some yummy sausages that are made from organic, grass-fed beef and are seasoned to perfection with real ingredients, not mystery ingredients!
I decided to buy a couple packages and bring them home and chop up some veggies I had lingering in the fridge. This 1 pot (or pan) meal was born.
I sliced the sausage, cubed red potatoes, onions, green peppers and laid it all out on a pan with a little coconut oil and let it roast until it all looked delicious and lightly browned. I later learned that it’s best to let the onions and potatoes go for about 10 minutes first and then add the sausage and green peppers or else you will get blackened sausage, or crunchy potatoes, both of which aren’t very desirable.
Feel free to make it your own and add any veggies, I’ve done it with mushrooms, asparagus, carrots, peppers, onions, garlic, and potatoes. Just be sure to give the tougher root veggies a head start. Remember you don’t want blackened sausage.
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Enjoy this simple 1 dish summer dinner.
Hi Hannah,
This is a recipe similar to mine, except I use a plain ground pork to a browned large and chunky consistency. I do allow a tiny bit of singing for caramelization flavor and I worry not about carcinogens. This is because the salt, sage, thyme, and whatever else is in my vibe, protects the meat from toxins. I go simple because I have a really hard time finding the perfect sausage. I’m sure you know my frustration that arises during the label reading process. “What possessed them to put that in there? It was otherwise, almost perfect!”
What would I like to see you do? Nail the “good guys.” That’s right! Vani Hari is working her buns off to protect the “Average Joe” and his family from Kraft, subway, etc. So what is anyone doing about the good guys of food manufacturing? So far, nothing…. Whenever a label, for instance, says “purified this, organic this, that and the other, sodium benzoate, organic sea salt, organic spices”, and the front label has all the “blessing logos”, too many health pursuing people will buy this with complete confidence.
Wait, what was that thing in there somewhere in the middle?… Yeah, sodium benzoate… Isn’t that the stuff that if mixed with ascorbic acid, produces “benzine”, a toxic substance found in petroleum? Yes, that’s right! There is absolutely NO reason for this ingredient to be in there. NONE! I find the one nasty ingredient in every health acclaimed food out there every single time. Someone needs to harp on these supposed good guys to get that one bad ingredient OUT! Go for it Hannah! Wayne (wr7476).