Sausage & Squash Skillet Meal

I'm LOVING our summer garden we have! As I had hoped upon planting, our staples of squash and zucchini are not disappointing me this year! Granted, they grow like mad in the Oklahoma heat and humidity, so we're at the beginning of looking to find creative ways to use it up. (You can hardly pawn it off on anyone...everyone grows it and is overrun with it too...) One night, my mom and I thought up this simple dish that was a huge hit for us! Hopefully it'll work for you/your family too!

Ingredients:

1 tube Italian-style Sausage (JC Potter)

1-2 Squash, sliced thin                                      

1-2 Zucchini, sliced thin                          

1 onion, chopped                                               

Olive Oil/Butter (if needed)

Assorted Seasonings: 

    Salt, Pepper, Garlic Salt, Italian Seasoning, Oregano, Seasoned Salt, Cajun Seasoning, etc.

Directions: 

In a large skillet, fry sausage until no pink remains. Place sausage into a paper towel-lined bowl/plate, leaving grease in skillet. In the same skillet, add in the squash, zucchini, and onion. Add some olive oil or butter, if needed, to coat everything. Season as desired and let cook over medium heat until squash and zucchini are tender and onion is translucent. When vegetables are fully cooked, pour sausage back into the skillet and stir everything together. Season mixture to taste.

Recipe Notes: 

-I’m sure you could use any type of sausage, but this is what we had on hand and thought it tasted good in this dish. Full-blown Italian sausage would be great, I'm sure, but we don't like it much at our house, so we don't use it. Turkey sausage or even ground beef would probably be fine too...basically any ground meat you have on hand would work. 

-Everything in my seasoning list is merely a suggestion. If you want to try something else, feel free to...this is just what we had on hand that fit our taste. 

-As you probably noticed, there aren't any hard and fast measurements here. This recipe can be stretched or shrunk as needed to suit everyone's appetite. At a minimum, I'd suggest at least 1 good sized squash and zucchini as well as a 1 lb. tube of sausage. Otherwise, do what you want! Mushrooms or other garden veggies might be good additions too! Enjoy!