Less Dishes, More Sausages and Potatoes (and other short stories)
This is a quick and easy meal that will give you all sorts of goodness. Tasty, healthy, easy to make, easy to make lots (read: leftovers), doesn’t leave a lot of dishes (major points).
What you’ll need (in this order):
Olive oil
An onion and some garlic
Your choice of potatoes (I prefer little red ones, but you can chop up regular non-fancy ones)
A few good sausages (the movie with Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore— but only sausages and hopefully still directed by Rob Reiner)
bell peppers of your favourite colour, but not the green ones because that’s gross
Kale (or spinach if you’re Popeye)
This recipe is made in a single frying pan. One. Not two. Not one and then into another. One. A big one. Less dishes, remember? If you don’t have a big enough pan, you can use two… But I’ll be sad for you.
Start with chopping up your onion and getting it into a medium-high heat pan with a couple of good glugs of olive oil. Chop up your potatoes (I like to cut the little ones in half) in the meantime and add them into the pan once the onions have become a little softer but don’t wait too long because you’ll eventually burn the onions and that’s gross. You may or may not need a bit more oil, depending on your measure of “glug”. Let the potatoes fry up for a bit while you slice the sausages and cut up your peppers.
If your pan isn’t big enough, you can cook up the sausage separately but you lose out on the flavours all blending together.
Add your garlic and your sausages into the pan. Sausages almost always have enough fat in them to keep you from having to add much, if any, oil or butter or anything. Watch the heat so that you don’t burn your onions or the garlic—again, that’s gross. When the sausages are about halfway cooked, pile in the peppers and keep mixing everything around to keep the cooking even.
Once everything is to the point of “just about ready to eat” you’ll want to add in the kale (or spinach if that’s your deal). I rip it up, add salt and pepper on top and them toss everything together until the kale is softer but not too soggy, because that’s gross.
For the sausage, choices are endless, really. Chorizo is awesome, beef sausages are great, chicken or turkey really slaps (my kids say that’s a good thing) and even a schnitzel because I wanted to type schnitzel. But don’t use breakfast sausage. Actually, use breakfast sausage because this would be really good with eggs… Report back.
