re: Sausage, onion. A little garlic

I feel like 57.3% of the savory things I cook start with sausage, onion, and garlic. The mayacoba beans I cooked earlier today started just like that...plus epazote, chopped tomato, and bay leaf.

-Add some fresh or frozen corn kernels, a little tomato, and baby green limas for a sausage-y succotash; or leave out the limas for a macque choux style dish
-purplehull or black eye peas plus liquid, simmer til done; but you gotta make some cornbread to go with it
-Yukon gold potatoes cut into 1.5" chunks, a splash of water, and a lid
-deglaze pan w/some red wine, then add two 28 oz cans of whole tomatoes, crushed w/your hands; simmer until oil floats on top....use as sauce for your favorite pasta shape

Seriously, practically everything starts w/some form of smoked pork, onions, and garlic in my kitchen.