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Sausage and Roasted Veggies
An easy, comforting and Budget friendly recipe!
Simple, economical and tasty!! Roast your favorite vegetables with sausage to give the veggies that extra flavor. Throw it together an hour before dinner, prep it in the morning or roast it the night before. This dish holds up and reheats well. Place leftovers in a pitah or on French or Italian bread for a new look. Salt and pepper and a few rosemary and thyme sprigs are enough seasoning or try your favorite spice rub. Grill it outdoors or roast it in the oven as I did. If you are cooking for one, cut the portions in half.
One Pan Sausage and Vegetables
Serves 3-4 as main
12 ounces Polish Sausage, chopped into 1” pieces
2 white potatoes, skin on, chopped
1 medium sweet potato, peeled and chopped
1 rutabaga, peeled and chopped
1 large carrot, cut on diagonal
2 radishes. quartered
1 red onion, chopped or sliced
1 yellow onion, chopped or sliced
1 large zucchini, chopped into 1” pieces
½ red cabbage, sliced
1 red bell pepper, cored, seeded and sliced
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
4 garlic cloves, minced
3 sprigs rosemary, broken into small pieces
5-6 sprigs thyme, broken into small pieces
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Line baking sheets with parchment paper
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Preheat oven to 400F.
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On one sheet place potatoes, rutabaga, carrot and radishes. Add ½ of the sausage
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On the second sheet, place onions, zucchini, red cabbage, bell pepper and the rest
of the sausages. -
Drizzle the vegetables with olive oil. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, garlic, rosemary and thyme sprigs.
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Bake sheet with the potatoes and other root vegetables for 35-40 minutes, until the veggies are fork tender.
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The other sheet has vegetables that will take less time, about 20 minutes. If any of the vegetables started blackening remove to a dish and let the rest of the veggies continue cooking until tender and slightly crisp.
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Remove from oven and arrange on a platter to serve, removing the rosemary and thyme sprigs. Taste and adjust seasoning.
Expandthetable suggestions
Make it vegan: Use vegan sausage or omit.
Add other veggies: You can use any vegetable that can be roasted, such as Brussels Sprouts, mushrooms, yellow squash, cherry tomatoes, cauliflower, broccoli, etc.
Use other proteins: In place of sausage, add teriyaki salmon, other fish that can be grilled, chicken breasts or thighs, cubed tofu drizzled with soy sauce, steak cubed. All these proteins should be seasoned with a spice rub, soy sauce, hoisin, or your favorite sauce or rub.
Allium free: Omit onions and garlic. Substitute a fennel bulb, sliced.
Add heat: Roast a few chili peppers on each sheet for a spicy flavor.
Foodie Lit
I asked Marti Healy if it were difficult to write from a male point of view and from a character whose life was so unlike her own. “I… don’t think writing from the viewpoint of a man even though I am a woman is that difficult. I think we are much the same inside. And this is where I write from.”
That we are “much the same inside” is what makes Marti’s writing so accessible, in this novel and in other works of hers. We feel a closeness to main character Kit and those he encounters on the roads of his life. His life was not easy, many choices not good ones, yet inside, we find common ground.
The way Marti develops her characters, plot and conflicts make her writing exceptional. Her word choices are evocative creating pictures in our minds as we read her words. She is a writer I want to return to again and again.
