Sausage and Pepper Packets
We love sausage and peppers and I try to always remember to have some italian sausage links in the freezer ...
AND because we are in the Pantry/Freezer Challenge, it's time to pull out the last package of sausage and cook it up! Just a note, I buy mine from Costco, they come in these four packs and cost about $12 or so for xx pounds. I would much rather buy fresh made links but haven't been able to find an affordable source to do so, which means, for now, it's Costco.
Anyway.
The sausage and peppers. The sausage typically will flare up on the grill at some point, usually when we've strolled back to the bar to get a drink and that means charred links. Not so very bad except that if it happens more than twice, they are toast. The onions and peppers are generally spread out on a baking sheet and cooked on the grill. These will inadvertently get a little charred too, which again, is fine, but I H A T E cleaning that pan when we are done cooking.
So ... when I came across this on Pinterest, I thought, what a no-brainer ... except it won't be charry like Hubby likes it ... but I was wrong! It will be a little charry on the bottom! Yeah!
The best part (besides it tasting pretty good!) is the cleanup:
Open foil (carefully)
Dump contents in large bowl
Mix up bowl
Serve
Toss foil in garbage.
SCORE!
This is perfect for a quick summertime meal!
2 pounds italian sausage, sliced in bite size pieces
2 red peppers, sliced in bite size pieces
2 yellow peppers (really, color doesn't mean anything, just 4 peppers total, ok?), sliced in bite size pieces
2 green peppers, sliced in bite size pieces (ok, this was probably overkill, but I had 'em so I used 'em)
2 onions, go ahead and guess: sliced in bite size pieces. I used vidalias
3 cloves of garlic, chopped
olive oil
salt and pepper
italian seasoning if you have
Grab a large piece of foil and lay it flat. Do me a favor and spend a few extra pennies and buy the thicker, quality stuff. It won't tear and it will hold the heat way better. Plus, that cheap stuff sometimes feels like it has plastic (!!) in it and you certainly don't want to put that over an open flame!
Dump the sausage, peppers, garlic and onion in the middle of the foil (make sure that you will be able to pull the edges together and be able to fold over before you go any further!)
Drizzle with a little olive oil and salt and pepper. Pull up 2 opposite sides towards the middle together and fold over a few times. Fold the 2 open sides in a few times to seal closed. NOTE: I put the onions on the bottom thinking that would be good for them to get carmalized, but in the end, they pretty much just melted away, so next time I'm putting the sausage down first :-)
IF you are like me, realize that you should have made a little bit bigger square of foil, so tear off another large piece and just wrap on way (opposite of the seams), just to be safe.
Place on preheated grill over medium heat and let sit for about 30-45 minutes or so. After 30 minutes, remove from heat and carefully open to check the sausage for doneness. I opted to let mine cook for a total of 60 minutes, after 45 minutes, I put the foil pack on a baking sheet and opened the foil to let some of the liquid evaporate out ... it also helped to make everything a lovely brown.
Once cooked to your preference, serve as a sandwich or be like me and just eat it plain with a sprinkle of fresh grated parmesan cheese (no thank you, Grains).
Now. Some people say it must have red sauce. Other's say no way! I like to have a smooth marinara sauce on the side, not drowning the stuff. So go ahead, if that's the way you like it, heat up some marinara sauce while the packet is cooking. I generally have a jar or two in the pantry!
This was really a pretty simple meal to cook and didn't require ANY hands on cooking time. Generally, when cooking italian sausage, you need to stay close by the grill for those pesky flare ups ... not this time!
Enjoy!
Looking forward to sharing with some of these great parties ... make sure you check them out! Wake Up Wednesday, Instagram Blog Hop, Pin Worthy Wednesday, Wake Up Wednesday, Hump Day Happenings, Wednesday Roundup, My Stay At Home Adventures, Wonderful Wednesday, Hearth & Soul, Fluster Buster Creative Muster, Show Me What Ya Got, What's Cooking Wednesday, Its a Party!, Works For Me Wednesday, Sugar and Spice, Hump Day Happenings, Waste Not Want Not, Wake Up Wednesday, Whatever Goes Wednesday, Wednesday Whatsits, Real Fun, Work It Wednesday, Lovely Ladies, Weekly Creative, Domestic Superhero, All Things Thursday, The Weekly Creative, Together on Tuesday, Tasty Thursday, Full Plate Thursday, Create It Thursday, Fabulously Frugal Thursday, Crafty Thursday Obsessions, Thrifty Thursday, Showcase Your Talent, Think Tank Thursday, Simple Lives Thursday, What To Do Thursday, No Rules Weekend Bloghop, Foodie Friday, Fabulous Friday, Get Real Frugal Friday, Frugal Fridays, Freakin Did It Friday, Pure Blog Love, Feature Friday, The Pin Junkie, Freedom Friday, Friday Favorite, Foodie Friday, A peek into my paradise, Weekend Social, Foodie Friends Friday, Celebrate It!, Weekend Retreat, What’s Shakin, Weekend Potluck, Get Him Feed Anything Goes, Lil Luna Link Party, Foodie Friday, Foodie Friends Friday, Weekend Potluck, TGI Friday Friday with Friends, Simple Living Foodie Friday, Inspirations, Weekend Wander, Saturday Night Fever, A Bouquet of Talent, The Party Bunch, Show Off Saturday, I Gotta Create, Show Off Weekend, Show Stopper Saturday, Sweet and Savory, The Weekend Creative, Weekend Potluck, Will Cook For Smiles, Strut Your Stuff Saturday, Super Saturday Show & Tell, Sunday Features, Potluck Party, Sunday Showcase, Snickerdoodle Sunday, Sundae Scoop, Super Sunday, G’Day, Sunday’s Best, Mop It Up Monday, Merry Monday, Creative Monday, The Scoop, Melt In Your Mouth Monday, Pinch of Joy, Pin It Party, Made By You Monday, Hunk of Meat Monday, What’d You Do This Weekend, Making It Cuter, Time To Sparkle, Inspire Me Monday, Mealtime Monday, Time To Sparkle, Makin You Crave Monday, Clever Chick, Motivational Monday, Mix it Up Monday, Save Money Monday, Monday Funday, Anything Goes Monday, Making Monday, Lou Lou Girls, Inspire Me Monday, Marvelous Monday, In and Out of the Kitchen, Memories, Tasty Tuesdays, Tuesdays At Our Home, How To Tuesday, Handmade Tuesday, Making a Home, Show Me The Goods, Totally Tasty Tuesday, All My Bloggie Friends, Retro Repin (Pinterest linkup) Share Your Stuff Tuesday, Tuesday Talent Show, Fat Tuesday, Penny Pinching Party, The Gathering Spot, Anti-Procrastination Tuesdays, Tasty Tuesdays, Two Cup Tuesday, Create, Link, Inspire, The Makers, Wow Me Wednesday, Create and Shareloa, Best of the Weekend
AND because we are in the Pantry/Freezer Challenge, it's time to pull out the last package of sausage and cook it up! Just a note, I buy mine from Costco, they come in these four packs and cost about $12 or so for xx pounds. I would much rather buy fresh made links but haven't been able to find an affordable source to do so, which means, for now, it's Costco.
Anyway.
The sausage and peppers. The sausage typically will flare up on the grill at some point, usually when we've strolled back to the bar to get a drink and that means charred links. Not so very bad except that if it happens more than twice, they are toast. The onions and peppers are generally spread out on a baking sheet and cooked on the grill. These will inadvertently get a little charred too, which again, is fine, but I H A T E cleaning that pan when we are done cooking.
So ... when I came across this on Pinterest, I thought, what a no-brainer ... except it won't be charry like Hubby likes it ... but I was wrong! It will be a little charry on the bottom! Yeah!
The best part (besides it tasting pretty good!) is the cleanup:
Open foil (carefully)
Dump contents in large bowl
Mix up bowl
Serve
Toss foil in garbage.
SCORE!
This is perfect for a quick summertime meal!
2 pounds italian sausage, sliced in bite size pieces
2 red peppers, sliced in bite size pieces
2 yellow peppers (really, color doesn't mean anything, just 4 peppers total, ok?), sliced in bite size pieces
2 green peppers, sliced in bite size pieces (ok, this was probably overkill, but I had 'em so I used 'em)
2 onions, go ahead and guess: sliced in bite size pieces. I used vidalias
3 cloves of garlic, chopped
olive oil
salt and pepper
italian seasoning if you have
Grab a large piece of foil and lay it flat. Do me a favor and spend a few extra pennies and buy the thicker, quality stuff. It won't tear and it will hold the heat way better. Plus, that cheap stuff sometimes feels like it has plastic (!!) in it and you certainly don't want to put that over an open flame!
Dump the sausage, peppers, garlic and onion in the middle of the foil (make sure that you will be able to pull the edges together and be able to fold over before you go any further!)
Drizzle with a little olive oil and salt and pepper. Pull up 2 opposite sides towards the middle together and fold over a few times. Fold the 2 open sides in a few times to seal closed. NOTE: I put the onions on the bottom thinking that would be good for them to get carmalized, but in the end, they pretty much just melted away, so next time I'm putting the sausage down first :-)
IF you are like me, realize that you should have made a little bit bigger square of foil, so tear off another large piece and just wrap on way (opposite of the seams), just to be safe.
Place on preheated grill over medium heat and let sit for about 30-45 minutes or so. After 30 minutes, remove from heat and carefully open to check the sausage for doneness. I opted to let mine cook for a total of 60 minutes, after 45 minutes, I put the foil pack on a baking sheet and opened the foil to let some of the liquid evaporate out ... it also helped to make everything a lovely brown.
Once cooked to your preference, serve as a sandwich or be like me and just eat it plain with a sprinkle of fresh grated parmesan cheese (no thank you, Grains).
Now. Some people say it must have red sauce. Other's say no way! I like to have a smooth marinara sauce on the side, not drowning the stuff. So go ahead, if that's the way you like it, heat up some marinara sauce while the packet is cooking. I generally have a jar or two in the pantry!
This was really a pretty simple meal to cook and didn't require ANY hands on cooking time. Generally, when cooking italian sausage, you need to stay close by the grill for those pesky flare ups ... not this time!
Enjoy!
Looking forward to sharing with some of these great parties ... make sure you check them out! Wake Up Wednesday, Instagram Blog Hop, Pin Worthy Wednesday, Wake Up Wednesday, Hump Day Happenings, Wednesday Roundup, My Stay At Home Adventures, Wonderful Wednesday, Hearth & Soul, Fluster Buster Creative Muster, Show Me What Ya Got, What's Cooking Wednesday, Its a Party!, Works For Me Wednesday, Sugar and Spice, Hump Day Happenings, Waste Not Want Not, Wake Up Wednesday, Whatever Goes Wednesday, Wednesday Whatsits, Real Fun, Work It Wednesday, Lovely Ladies, Weekly Creative, Domestic Superhero, All Things Thursday, The Weekly Creative, Together on Tuesday, Tasty Thursday, Full Plate Thursday, Create It Thursday, Fabulously Frugal Thursday, Crafty Thursday Obsessions, Thrifty Thursday, Showcase Your Talent, Think Tank Thursday, Simple Lives Thursday, What To Do Thursday, No Rules Weekend Bloghop, Foodie Friday, Fabulous Friday, Get Real Frugal Friday, Frugal Fridays, Freakin Did It Friday, Pure Blog Love, Feature Friday, The Pin Junkie, Freedom Friday, Friday Favorite, Foodie Friday, A peek into my paradise, Weekend Social, Foodie Friends Friday, Celebrate It!, Weekend Retreat, What’s Shakin, Weekend Potluck, Get Him Feed Anything Goes, Lil Luna Link Party, Foodie Friday, Foodie Friends Friday, Weekend Potluck, TGI Friday Friday with Friends, Simple Living Foodie Friday, Inspirations, Weekend Wander, Saturday Night Fever, A Bouquet of Talent, The Party Bunch, Show Off Saturday, I Gotta Create, Show Off Weekend, Show Stopper Saturday, Sweet and Savory, The Weekend Creative, Weekend Potluck, Will Cook For Smiles, Strut Your Stuff Saturday, Super Saturday Show & Tell, Sunday Features, Potluck Party, Sunday Showcase, Snickerdoodle Sunday, Sundae Scoop, Super Sunday, G’Day, Sunday’s Best, Mop It Up Monday, Merry Monday, Creative Monday, The Scoop, Melt In Your Mouth Monday, Pinch of Joy, Pin It Party, Made By You Monday, Hunk of Meat Monday, What’d You Do This Weekend, Making It Cuter, Time To Sparkle, Inspire Me Monday, Mealtime Monday, Time To Sparkle, Makin You Crave Monday, Clever Chick, Motivational Monday, Mix it Up Monday, Save Money Monday, Monday Funday, Anything Goes Monday, Making Monday, Lou Lou Girls, Inspire Me Monday, Marvelous Monday, In and Out of the Kitchen, Memories, Tasty Tuesdays, Tuesdays At Our Home, How To Tuesday, Handmade Tuesday, Making a Home, Show Me The Goods, Totally Tasty Tuesday, All My Bloggie Friends, Retro Repin (Pinterest linkup) Share Your Stuff Tuesday, Tuesday Talent Show, Fat Tuesday, Penny Pinching Party, The Gathering Spot, Anti-Procrastination Tuesdays, Tasty Tuesdays, Two Cup Tuesday, Create, Link, Inspire, The Makers, Wow Me Wednesday, Create and Shareloa, Best of the Weekend
Yes please! I love sausage with pepper and onions and this does make cleanup plenty easy! What a great idea!
ReplyDeleteI love this way to make sausage and peppers on the grill. Thanks for sharing this at Cocoking and Crafting with J & J.
ReplyDeleteI may have just drooled! YUMMY!
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining Cooking and Crafting with J & J!