Oven Roasted Vegan Sausage and Potatoes

“Are you done yet? Are you done yet?”

Hubby was like a toddler on a long road trip. Only it was not the boredom or the distance that drove him to impatience and me to insanity.  In his case, the culprit was the lip-smacking, finger-licking dinner I made and was photographing, so I could share it with you.

He was driving me crazy!  “One more minute, dear,” I kept calming him down.

See, my husband eats with his eyes first.  And this dish looked pretty enticing.

Then, once the fork touches his lips, the final test of whether I created a master piece or not comes down to that first bite.

I know his taste buds all too well–fourteen years of marriage will do that to you. I know what he will love eating even before he ever takes the first bite.  So, when I whipped up my famous oven roasted vegetables and potatoes dish, and, for a treat, this time added vegan sausage to it, I knew he would go Wile E. Coyote on me and chase me down ’til I fed it to him.

I was right!

He helped me to record the video of the recipe prep (the final product is below), and even while I was chopping up the veggies, he began to salivate.  When the baking sheet, loaded with all of the whole foods goodness, went into the oven and the enticing sausage aroma spread around the house, he became like a hound dog, pacing back and forth, awaiting his treat.

What drove him crazy in the few final minutes, though, was that I made him wait until I photographed the dish he knew he already loved, and by the looks and the smell of it deduced he would love even more now, with the special addition of vegan sausages in it.

He was hungry. And the man LOVES HIS FOOD.  So, by all measures, I was asking for trouble, making him wait.

It’s a good thing, I supposed, since it makes me feel good about my cooking skills.  But it’s also a little scary, because then I become solely responsible for his dietary happiness, and that’s a heavy burden to bear.  Having to measure up to my own greatness every time I cook is a big responsibility :).

So, you can imagine how happy he was when I finally told him: “It’s a wrap, babe! The food is yours!”

He literally snatched the bowl out of my hands and went straight to the table.

You don’t keep a man from his food!

By the time Sprout and I joined him, half of his dinner was gone.  To make up for making him wait, I passed most of my sausage to him.  He didn’t say “no”.

After dinner, he rolled back his eyes in pleasure, then reached over and, with a kiss, said: “Babe, you’re a genius!”

And…we lived happily ever since :).

That’s my fairy tale life.  I am sure you have something similar happening in yours, when it comes to food and love.  If you don’t, make this “one pot” potatoes and sausage dish for your family and see if they don’t love you as much as mine loves me for it.

Here’s your step-by-step video and the recipe.

Make it, share it, and let me know how you loved it.

Make a meal out of it. We had ours with a simple lettuce salad tossed with a fat free Italian dressing, and freshly picked strawberries for dessert.