If you're gonna brown the sausage, do it in the same pot you cook the rest of the food. Drain as much of the grease or oil as you like, and cook the food as normal. Any black or brown stuff in the pot from frying is going to be extra flavor for your food.

Pretty sure she doesn't brown it first, but I get chased out of the kitchen when she's cooking so I don't know lol. It's polish kielbasa, cabbage, parsnips, celery, carrots and onion. She's 100% Polish (imported to the US via adoption from Warsaw at a very young age) and dead set on becoming a true babcia. Help me, I'm getting fat! (Actually never mind, it's too delicious...)