Roasted Italian chicken sausage with potatoes

So I had the wonderful idea of menu planning for this week but life got in the way and I never did go shopping for all the appropriate ingredients. So I am eating out of my pantry again tonight. I usually stir fry my sausage and mix it with rice but I wanted something different tonight. This is what I came up with.

Roasted Italian Sausage with potatoes. The dish itself is very quick to make. Total prep time with baking was 40 minutes. Serves 4- 6 people.

Ingredients:

You will need:

13x9 inch Pyrex or stoneware baking pan

salt to taste

2 tsp of black pepper (more if preferred)

1 yellow onion

1 organic green bell pepper

5 organic humanely raised nitrate free Italian chicken sausages ( or sausages of your choice)

1 organic tomato

6 small organic red potatoes ( I used purple potatoes from a local farmer up the street)

3 Tablespoons of Organic Extra Virgin Olive Oil (purchased at Costco)

Preheat oven to 450 degrees

Cut up potatoes into fourths. Place in pan as below

Cut the remaining ingredients onions, green bell pepper, sausage, and tomato into bite size pieces and spread throughout pan.

Sprinkle black pepper and salt over ingredients in pan then drizzle Olive Oil.

Place in oven and cook 30 to 35 minutes until potatoes are tender to a fork and sausage is brown. Stir once about half way through the cook time.

My husband was fascinated by the purple potatoes. The dish was delicious. A side salad would have been a wonderful addition. Yummy!

" Mom, where is mine?"

Very Simple Quick Summer Dinner Salad

Saturday afternoon I did not feel like cooking at all. The accountant was outside busy doing yard work and I knew he would be starving come dinner time. I opened the refrigerator and thought " I don't have much". This is what I pulled out.
Serves 2-4. Time 20 minutes (more if you have to cook rice)

1 Organic lettuce (from PCC)
1 cup Organic cooked brown rice ( uncooked purchased at Costco)
6 Organic mini tomato's (purchased at Costco)
8 Tablespoons sunflower seeds (from trader Joe's)
1 can of garbanzo beans ( Eden canned from vitacost, dryed of course would be cheaper but this is quicker)
Goddess dressing (trader Joe's 1.99 per bottle)
8 Organic "baby" carrots (Costco)
6 Mini portabello mushrooms (Costco)
1 Organic apple (Fred Meyers)

With baby on my hip because she was to fussy I threw together two salads. Granted items were not chopped as small as they would have been if baby was not on hip.!

First place warm brown rice on plate. 1/2 a cup is plenty per plate.

Place about 1 cup of chopped lettuce on top of rice

Then Cut tomatoes in half and place on salad 

Then place carrots on salad. Mine are not chopped but I think it's better if they are

Rinse garbanzo beans and place 1/4 to 1/2 cup on salad

Add sliced mushrooms

Dice 1/2 apple and place on salad followed by sunflower seeds to taste and dressing

Serve. As you can see it makes a large salad. This is the accountants portion.