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Castello Moments - Roasted Sausages and Summer Vegetables with Garden Fresh Pesto This is a sponsored post by Castello Cheeses and Honest Cooking. Thank you for supporting companies that I support. It’s a blessing to me and allows me to continue developing recipes and sharing content for you to enjoy. As the days get warmer and the gardens grow lush with greens and vegetables, more of my meals are being made from what I’ve harvested in that day. Castello Moments - Roasted Sausages and Summer Vegetables with Garden Fresh Pesto One of the main reasons I have a passion for gardening is for the magnificent meals that come from my soil that I’ve labored over. The vegetables have flavor and punch that I can only imagine is what our ancestors tasted in their days of homesteading and working the land. It never fails to make me smile when I dice into my first green onion that I’ve allowed to bulb. They have a crisp bite that makes my eyes tear unlike any I have bought at a grocery store. Or the radishes, I grow in my front yard. Castello Moments - Roasted Sausages and Summer Vegetables with Garden Fresh Pesto I’ve just used the last from my spring harvest that I had stored in my crisper. Their color remained just as vivid as the day I picked them, as did their delightful crunch that spits at you when you take a bite. When you grow your own food, you’re not only saving money, cooking becomes simple.  The vegetables taste so great, that they’re best cooked in dishes that highlight their flavors. A simple way to do this is by cooking them with fresh herbs grown at home, and with crafted meats and cheeses made from family farmers. I was excited to be able to taste the Castello Alps Selection cheeses produced with raw milk from cows grazing on the green pastures in the Alps. Castello Moments - Roasted Sausages and Summer Vegetables with Garden Fresh Pesto I was smitten with joy to see the three varieties of crafted cheeses Castello had sent me.  You can definitely note the flavor in cheeses made from cows grazing on grass. There’s distinct flavors of meadow and earthiness that come through with each bite.  Similar to drinking a good raw milk when the pastures and its grasses come to life in the spring. With radishes and its tops begging to be used, fresh herbs growing in abundance, and a grand variety of cheeses to choose from, I decided to put together a simple summer meal.

A Simple Summer Meal: Roasted Sausages and Summer Vegetables with Garden Fresh Pesto

Castello Moments - Roasted Sausages and Summer Vegetables with Garden Fresh Pesto In being economical, I like to put to use all parts of a vegetable. This includes the tops of radishes, beets, and turnips. An easy way to put them to use is by making a fierce pesto. I like to make a big batch so that I can freeze what I have left to use in future meals – which you’ll thank yourself for, I promise. A pesto can be made in many ways.  As long as you add a green, something nutty, a good dry cheese, and extra virgin olive oil, you really can’t go wrong. With the Castello Hirten in my hands, I shred up a 1/2 cup to use in this radish top pesto. pesto3 This cheese was just what it needed.  Rich and complex, It had a nice crumbly, texture with just the right amount of dry saltiness that paired beautifully with the hazelnuts I used. The pesto was silky, yet nutty and the earthy tones of the radish leaves left it something to be desired. All I had to do after making the pesto was chop up some fresh vegetables from the garden and farmers market. Castello Moments - Roasted Sausages and Summer Vegetables with Garden Fresh Pesto One of my newly found roasted vegetable loves are radishes.  With such a heavy harvest I had to put them to use and I’ve found that once a radish is sauteed or roasted, it looses its spice and develops a sweeter undertone.  They’re quite lovely. With the abundance of radish leaves I had left, I threw them in with the vegetables as well. I tossed the vegetables with the pesto and then topped it all with locally crafted beer brat sausages. Castello Moments - Roasted Sausages and Summer Vegetables with Garden Fresh Pesto All that was left was to roast it at 375F for 1 hour. This a perfect, simple summer dish to eat on a hot summer day along side a hand crafted cold beer.

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Castello Moments – Roasted Sausages and Summer Vegetables with Garden Fresh Pesto

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 58 minutes

Castello Moments – Roasted Sausages and Summer Vegetables with Garden Fresh Pesto

A Simple Summer Meal: Roasted Sausages and Summer Vegetables with Garden Fresh Pesto

Ingredients:

    Homemade Radish Top Pesto
  • 2 cups radish leaves
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 1/2 cup Castello Hirten Cheese
  • 1/2 cup roasted hazelnuts (sub pecans or almonds)
  • 3 tbls fresh oregano
  • 4-5 stems fresh thyme, stems removed
  • juice of one lemon
  • 1 cup extra virgin olive oil
  • Roasted Sausage and Veg
  • 4-5, beer brat sausages - sub any other variety or flavor of sausages
  • 4 large red potatoes, chopped into bite sized pieces
  • 2 bunches radishes with leaves, separate the leaves to use for pesto and reserve the rest to toss with the vegetables. Halve the radishes
  • 1 yellow squash or zucchini, sliced in moon halves
  • 8 large green onion bulbs, halved - sub 1 large white onion, chopped in large pieces

Method:

    Pesto
  1. In a food processor, pulse the radish leaves, garlic, Castello Hirten Cheese, hazelnuts, oregano, thyme, and lemon juice until finely ground.
  2. Once ground, with the food processor still on, slowly add the olive oil in a constant stream through the top feeding tube.
  3. Roasted Sausages and Vegetables
  4. In a a large bowl, add the potatoes, reserved radish leaves, radishes, yellow squash, onions and toss in 1 cup of homemade pesto.
  5. Place the contents of the bowl in a deep cast iron skillet or baking dish. Arrange the sausages on top of the vegetables.
  6. Top the cast iron pan or baking dish with parchment paper and bake for 45 minutes at 375F.
  7. After 45 minutes, remove the parchment paper and bake for an additional 15 minutes to brown.
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  1. Ally's Sweet & Savory Eats says

    July 19, 2013 at 9:32 pm

    I love how this is a one pot meal!

    Reply
    • Diana Bauman says

      July 20, 2013 at 10:12 am

      I know, I like that to, Ally. One pot meals are definitely a bonus 😀

      Reply
  2. Karlene says

    July 20, 2013 at 12:13 am

    Radish tops also cook up and taste just like turnip greens . A tasty southern dish ,cook w/a little bacon grease and a small amt of water and salt to taste,cook on stove till crisp tender or your preference.

    Reply
    • Diana Bauman says

      July 20, 2013 at 10:13 am

      Thanks for sharing that, Karlene! Sounds lovely 🙂

      Reply
  3. Stacy @ A Delightful Home says

    July 20, 2013 at 12:31 am

    This looks amazing! I want to make it right away. Yum!

    Reply
    • Diana Bauman says

      July 20, 2013 at 10:13 am

      Thanks, Stacy!

      Reply
  4. Heather @girlichef says

    August 2, 2013 at 6:19 pm

    This is definitely my kind of meal, Diana! I recently made a kale pesto using the Hirten and just loved it…and I agree about the grassy nature of the cheese. 🙂

    Reply

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