American Chinese Sausage Melange

There are some dishes where I have no clue what to call them, so I'll resort to them being American - Chinese dishes, as I'm both an American and Chinese.

This is an easy dish and you can really use anything from rice, quinoa, risotta, cauli-rice to make this dish.

Makes 10 hearty servings

Ingredients:

• 1 lb beef kielbasa sausage cut into chunks
• 1 eggplant, diced
• 1 onion, diced
• 1 zucchini, diced
• 1 Mexican squash, diced
• 1 ear corn
• 2 Tbspn bacon grease or olive oil (not extra virgin olive oil)
• sea salt
• brown rice
• water
• 2 Tbspns turmeric
• 1/2 tspn cayenne pepper

Directions:

• Put uncooked brown rice with water.  Add turmeric & cayenne pepper.
• Cook rice as per my Perfect Rice instructions, that is, if you have a rice cooker.  
• In a large skillet, heat up the bacon grease on medium high heat.
• Add the diced eggplant and generously sprinkle with sea salt.  Cook for 2-3 min.
• Add the onion and the Mexican squash.  Sprinkle the squash with a little more sea salt.  Sometimes this squash is better and the salt helps tame this down some.  Cook for another 2-3 min. on the medium high heat.
• Add kielbasa and cook for another 5 min.
• Add the corn.
• Mix well.  
• Sprinkle with ground pepper.
• Reduce heat to medium-low.  Cover.  Cook until rice is done.
• Add rice to the melange of sausage and veggies.  Mix well.
• Serve.