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Dottie's Roasted Vegetables and Sausage

1 large sweet potato
2 medium white potatoes (Yukon or Idaho will do)
1 red bell pepper
3 medium onions (skinned and quartered)
half a head of garlic
4 links of spicy Italian sausage
olive oil
3 or 4 sprigs of fresh rosemary (plus extra for garnish)
a pinch or two of red pepper flakes
fresh ground black pepper
salt to taste
3 leeks (optional)

Another option:
beets (but they can make the whole mess kind of sweet)

1. Preheat oven to 400° Fahrenheit. Wash and chop your vegetables into fairly large pieces and start throwing them into a baking dish with a lid (like one of those glass Pyrex ones). I leave the skins on my potatoes because they taste good and are good for you. Also, as you chop everything up keep in mind how quickly different things cook. Sweet potatoes cook faster than white potatoes so you want to cut your sweet potato into larger chunks so that they will be ready at about the same time as the other potatoes.
2. Take the core out of the pepper, chop into large bits. Like, maybe six or eight lengthwise pieces. They cook even faster than a sweet potato. Peel and quarter your onions. Separate the cloves of garlic and take off any excess skin...but leave a layer of skin on there. It's good that way.
3. Put your sausages, rosemary, pepper flakes, salt and pepper in the dish and pour on some olive oil. Stir everything around to make sure everything gets some olive oil on it and cover. Place in oven. Total cooking time is generally about an hour. Take out every twenty minutes or so and stir the items around a little. They need to be rearranged to make sure everything is cooking evenly.
4. Wash your leeks very well. They tend to be sandy. Try slicing them lengthwise, but not all the way down to the base to get all the sand out from between the leaves. Chop off the top tough part and discard. Then slice them up.
5. After your dish has been in the oven for forty minutes take off the cover and leave it off. Also, add those leeks and mix them in with the other veggies. Cook for about twenty more minutes (test your potatoes for doneness) and voilà! Serve with a nice salad and your favorite red wine, which you have hopefully started drinking already. Serves three or four.