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Greetings, FoodFirst Community! I love apples. To be more precise, I love cooking with apples. Not only apple tarts, crisps and crumbles are wonderful, but adding apples to savory dishes brings them to a whole new level. Check out this sheet dinner - it was so quick and easy to put together, and my family gobbled up leftovers for breakfast, it was that good. It has just a few ingredients (for 4 people): A pound of brats or Italian sausages (any sausages, really!) A pound of apples (I like using a mix; ideally, you want them firm and not mushy) A pound of brussels sprouts (you could use other cabbages - broccoli, broccolini, or cauliflower will all work) A large red onion A pound of potatoes or sweet potatoes Dried or fresh rosemary or thyme or both or neither Salt, black pepper, olive oil
Preheat the oven to 400F. Prick each sausage with a sharp knife in a few places and put them on a baking sheet. Cut the onion into wedges and add to the baking sheet. Drizzle some olive oil over both and put into the oven to give them a head start. Next, prepare apples: halve and core them, then cut each half into thirds or quarters, if apples are particularly large. Clean and halve brussels sprouts. Cut potatoes to roughly the same size as your brussels sprouts. Toss apples and vegetables with herbs, olive oil, salt, and pepper and add them to the baking sheet around the sausages. Roast for 30 minutes, flipping midway through. The sausages should reach 160F and vegetables should be golden and cooked through. Voila! A cool variation on this sheet dinner is with grapes. Basically, everything is the same but you add seedless grapes instead of apples. If you decide to try, have some sherry, champaign, or cider vinegar on hand and drizzle a small amount over the roasted grapes to take the edge off their sweetness.
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