Sausage peppers, onions in red sauce

When I think of sausage, I immediately go to sausage and peppers and onions .  There are some days I add  potatoes for interest to this combo and I bake everything in my oven.

Then there are days that sausage comes to a different light and I immediately go to red sauce so that’s where I went today fresh rolls and nice freshly cooked sausage and peppers is dinner. Macaroni salad and creamy coleslaw as our sides.

This meal was cooked in the crockpot, but before I put everything in the crockpot.  On high 425° oven heat I placed the sausage , peppers ( onions optional )that were cleaned and sliced on a sprayed with cooking oil cookie sheet and place the cookie sheet in the oven for about 20 minutes.  

While the sausage and peppers were baking, I added a large container (28 oz.)of tomato sauce some garlic and onion powder and a pinch of salt to my crockpot and placed it on high heat.

This recipe can be adjusted according to how much sausage and peppers and onions you are using.  Today I used 1 pound of hot sausage links, two large sliced variegated peppers to the sauce.(don’t forget the onion and garlic powder). No need for pepper since the sausage was HOT!

 I placed the crockpot on high heat and it should be done within 2 to 3 hours. Happy cooking.