Most of the time I stare at into the kitchen waiting for a recipe to pop into my head just to find that although the pantry is over stocked, I don’t have a single thing I need on hand. Today’s post was different. I had direction. A group of fantastic bloggers was challenged by Williams-Sonoma and Le Creuset to show off the beautiful color of cookware; Quince.
Immediately, warm comforting meals came to mind – about a dozen or so of them for me to narrow it down from. And I picked the one that had a pile of onions in it. What was I thinking? This is a friendly photography competition and I picked onions. Way to win it. Onions never make anything pretty. They really aren’t that photogenic after they have been sliced and cooked. Really, when was the last time you saw an onion and though, “Damn, that looks mighty fine.” But it’s ok. This recipe was everything I wanted – cozy, packed full of flavor and dare I say, healthy. It didn’t even take that long to put together and would be a perfect weeknight meal.
Head on over to the Williams-Sonoma Pinterest page to check out the all the beautiful pictures from other bloggers and click like for the ones you think make this beautiful new color look smexy. There may be a little something something in store for the blog who gets the most likes.
Braised Cola Onions & Sausage 
Ingredients:
- 1 tbs extra virgin olive oil
- 2 sweet onions, sliced thin
- Salt & Pepper
- 1 cup cola
- 2 tbs honey
- 4 sprigs fresh thyme
- 4 – 8 fully cooked chicken sausages (I used chicken and apple)
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
Meanwhile, heat the olive oil in your oven safe braiser or dutch oven over medium heat. Add onions and season with salt and pepper. Cook 3 to 5 minutes, until tender. Add the cola, honey, and thyme, stirring to coat the onions and cook for another 5 minutes.
Nestle the sausages over top of the onions and place in the oven to cook for 20 to 25 minutes. Using oven mitts, carefully remove from oven.
Serve sausages and onions with mashed sweet potatoes.
My name is Kita. I am a 20 something girl geek and website/graphic designer who can rock an apron like there is no tomorrow.
Dang girl, you made onions look good! Good Luck!
Holy smokes, these look amazing!!! Your photo is so beautiful too!
Yay for Quince!
Doesn’t quince sort of sound like a curse word? Every time I say it, it comes out sounding like an expletive! I don’t know why!! Well Quince me! This meal looks great! Some quincing great onions there! Quincing delicious!
Definitely showed it all off quite brilliantly!
I bet this tastes awesome. Beautiful photo!
GORGEOUS photo!!
Amazing pics, as usual
I made the onions and sausages for dinner today, and they were lovely! Thanks so much for an awesome recipe!
Love hearing that you tried a recipe from here and that you enjoyed it! Hope to have you back again
I have been eye balling that quince braising pan – love it!! By the way this is one of our go-to meals when pressed on time or feeling completely lazy!!
Wow, looks wonderful. I have some elk sausage just waiting to be bathed in cola!