Sausage and Peppers is a classic Italian-American dish cooked on truck worktops at innumerable street fairs in New York City and elsewhere. I can smell that smell from my childhood as I write this. Ordinarily, the vehicle for this greasy, no-frills dish is a big chunk of Italian bread. Since I can’t eat bread, I supplement my recipe with my favorite vegetable: The Mightly Sweet Potato. You can leave that out, use different colored peppers in its place, and/or stuff this glorious mess into a bread roll of your choice. If you do use bread I’ll be jealous, but not too jealous, because it’s pretty great the way it is.

Just corin’ mah pepper

Slice your pepper strips in half

Cut your onion in half, then into strips, then into thirds

Veggies, assemble!

Cut your sausage into roundels

Let your veggies cook down

Break the sausage up as it cooks to spread the flavor around

Almost ready…

Sausage and Peppers (and Sweet Potatoes)

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