Garden Fresh Summer Supper
Sheet Pan Sausage and Summer Vegetables is a great no-brainer seasonal dish. Turkey sausage lightens things up, and garden-fresh peppers, zucchini, and yellow squash round out the meal. Topped with freshly cut vine-ripe cherry tomatoes, it’s a celebration of summer.
And, best of all, it’s simple.
We all need a quick meal to throw together and this checks the box. Sheet Pan Sausage and Summer Vegetables is just as simple as tossing it all on a sheet pan and popping it in the oven. Served with a crusty baguette and you are good to go. This is a good and good for you summer supper that I know you will love.
Before and After
Quick reminder, if you are new here. I’m a French-trained, Southern chef and cookbook author. I’ve lost 65 pounds and have now kept it off for 4+ years. I quit dieting and changed my life. Good and Good for You™ is my real-life approach to health and wellness. It’s not about weight loss, it’s about health gain.
This FREE issue of Good and Good for You™ shares
- Best Life Living Tip: Make it a Ritual
- Self-Care Strategy: Tracking the Four Pillars of Mental Health
- Ideas and Inspiration: #GoodTrouble
It’s a privilege for me when you click “read more.” Hey, we’re all inundated with media. I get it. Reading this is a choice. The goal of this newsletter is to give you a quick read with some ideas to improve your life and a healthy, delicious recipe like this Sheet Pan Sausage and Summer Vegetables.
Let’s go!
Best Life Living Tip
Nearly every Friday, I visit my BFF Evan and his family. We do yoga from YouTube and make a healthy dinner.
It’s a standing date, and only if one of us is out of town or not feeling well do we break it. This weekly event is hands-down one the most important things in my life. I see my friends, I am certain to do yoga at least 4x a month, which is great, and I eat a healthy supper.
This ritual gives me connection, movement, nourishment, and joy — every single week.
The best life living tip is to make something that is Good and Good for You™ a habit, a part of your life. We’re all busy. We’re all juggling too much. But make room – on purpose – for something that feeds your body, mind, and heart.
Don’t just try to “fit it in.” Schedule it like your life depends on it — because it kind of does.
Self-Care Technique
The 4 C’s of Mental Health: Connection, Coping, Care, and Compassion
You don’t have to bend over backwards to make improvements in your mental health. Incorporating these four pillars into our everyday routines helps promote well-being, manage stress, improve relationships, and support personal growth. Think of them as a set of guardrails — a supportive framework that helps keep us grounded and on track.
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Connection — Our relationships and sense of community. Meaningful connections with others foster belonging and emotional safety.
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Coping — The tools we use to navigate life’s challenges. Healthy strategies like exercise, journaling, or deep breathing support resilience. Not-so-healthy ones, like excessive alcohol use, can set us back.
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Care — The proactive steps we take to support our mental health. That might include sleep, healthy meals like this Sheet Pan Sausage and Summer Vegetables supper, regular check-ins with ourselves, or seeking support when needed.
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Compassion — The kindness we extend to ourselves and others. It means giving grace during tough times and practicing empathy, even when it’s hard.
By regularly engaging with the 4 C’s, we build a more balanced, intentional, and emotionally healthy life. You can do it!!
Ideas and Inspiration
This week was the anniversary of the death of Representative John Lewis. This tweet of his from 2018 revisits his original “good trouble” quote.
John Lewis (1940-2020) was a prominent American civil rights leader and politician. He served as a U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 5th congressional district from 1987 until he died in 2020. A key figure in the Civil Rights Movement, he was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and participated in pivotal events like the Freedom Rides and the March on Washington. He is particularly remembered for his role in the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama.
He faced an uphill battle most of his life, and yet he said, “Do not get lost in a sea of despair.”
It’s been grim. I have been especially distressed about the cutting of PBS and NPR funding. The gutting of our national park system is shameful. It feels catastrophic.
“Do not get lost in a sea of despair…. Be hopeful, be optimistic. It is the struggle of a lifetime.”
For more information about John Lewis and to learn more of his wisdom, please visit the John and Lillian Miles Lewis Foundation.
Good and Good for You™Living Spotlight
Part of my health change regards rituals for calming. I love burning candles in the evening like this one that reads, “Love it When Good Things Happen to Good People.”
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Make it Count
Thanks so much for reading. I hope you gained a snippet to help you and a recipe to feed you! Let me know what you think.
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As long as you’re doing what’s Good and Good for You™ more often than not, you’re on the right track. 🙌🏻 You can do it!
Bon Appétit Y’all!
Virginia Willis
Sheet Pan Sausage and Summer Vegetables
Ingredients
- 1 10- ounce bad sweet baby bell peppers split
- 1 onion sliced
- 2 zucchini sliced
- 2 yellow squash sliced
- 4 medium garlic cloves crushed
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- ½ teaspoon coarse kosher salt
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- 6 turkey sausages
- 1 cup cherry or grape tomatoes halved
- ¼ ounce Parmesan cheese shaved (about 2 tablespoons)
- 2 tablespoons torn fresh basil
- ½ teaspoon crushed red pepper
Instructions
- Line a sheet pan with a silcone baking sheet or foil Place in the oven; preheat oven to 425°F.
- Toss together vegetables, oil, black pepper and salt in a large bowl.
- Arrange vegetable mixture in a single layer on preheated baking sheet. Bake in preheated oven until vegetables begin to soften, about 10 minutes.
- Remove baking sheet from oven and toss vegetable mixture. Add sausage and garlic to baking sheet. Return to oven, and bake at 425°F until sausage is cooked and vegetables are tender, about 15 minutes. Remove from oven; sprinkle with tomatoes, cheese, basil and crushed red pepper.
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