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Grilled Turkey Sausages
Roasted Late Summer Vegetables
Cooking time: 30 minutes for menu
Cooking schedule: see below for "menu" instructions

If you want to make this a super easy dinner just put the sausage right on top of the vegetables and roast them all together.  The juices from the sausages will drip down into the veg. adding a lovely flavor - but you won't have the grill 'taste'!

Grilled Sausages                                                           Time: 15 minutes
  There is such a variety of sausage available, you can grill them often and never repeat.  Duck, turkey, chicken, beef as well as pork, hot, mild, smoked or not.  I did Turkey and Walnut.  Spicy Italian sausages or smoked Bratwurst would be good, as well.

4 - 8 sausages, depending on size,  12 oz total weight (350gr)  

This is really a tough one  - cook them on the barbecue grill (or sauté them) until done.  Serve.

Roasted Late Summer Vegetables                                  Time: 45 minutes
  You can use any type of tomato you have in the fridge and add other vegetables that you want to use up: a stalk or two of celery, some shallots, or, to serve more people or have as a vegetarian main course add cubed zucchini and eggplant (courgette and aubergine).  This is a very flexible and delicious way to get the best out of summer's bounty!

1 bell pepper, any color, I am using green
1 medium onion
2 cloves garlic
2 tomatoes or 1 cup (8 oz, 200 grams) cherry tomatoes  whatever is on the counter
2 potatoes
2 tbs olive oil
1 tbs balsamic vinegar
1 tbs Worcestershire Sauce
Fresh basil leaves  - 2 tbs snipped if you have them

Finely mince garlic and put into a large bowl with the oil, Worcestershire and vinegar.  Allow the flavors to blend while preparing the vegetables.  Clean peppers by cutting in half the long way and removing seeds.   Cut into strips about 1/2 inch wide.  Clean onion, cut in half and then each half into thirds, vertically.  Cut tomatoes into large chunks; cherry tomatoes in half.  Cut potatoes into bite-size pieces.  Put all vegetables into the bowl with oil and vinegar and toss to coat.  Put into a baking pan large enough to just hold all in a single layer.  Roast in 400F (200C) oven for 20 minutes.  Remove, stir and roast for 15 minutes longer.  Remove, stir, add some sea salt and pepper if you like...and some fresh basil if you happen to have any, and serve.
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Cooking Schedule: 45 minutes
Assemble all ingredients and utensils
Turn oven on
Mince garlic
Mix oil, vinegar, Worcestershire, garlic for veg
Clean and cut pepper, add to oil mix
Clean and cut onion, add to oil mix
Cut tomatoes, add to oil mix
Cut potatoes and add to oil mix
Toss vegetables well to coat
Put vegetables in baking dish

Put sausages on top of veg if you want
Start to roast vegetables
Light barbecue grill if using
Get menu, recipes, list from Thyme For Cooking
Do pantry inventory

Check fridge and freezer 
Check shopping list
Remove vegetables, stir, put back in oven
Start to cook sausages if using barbecue grill
Mind the sausages until done
Remove veg, sausage,  serve, eat, TGIF!

 

 

 

 

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