Brussels Sprouts and Sausage with Polenta

I made this for lunch yesterday -- but it was a dinner-sized meal and then I wasn't hungry for dinner.  It was pretty good though.  The only annoying thing was constantly stirring the polenta (I may not have needed to stir it quite so constantly) and the number of pans I had to wash afterwards.  Makes enough for 2 people.

Ingredients:
~1lb brussels sprouts (I actually have no clue, I think I had like 30 of them?), quartered
Olive oil
Salt and pepper

5 sausages, chopped up (I used apple chicken sausage that was precooked)

1 cup corn grits/polenta
1.5 cups chicken stock
1 onion, chopped
olive oil
salt

Toss the brussels sprouts in olive oil, season with salt and pepper.  Cook them in a 425 degree oven until they are soft with the outer leaves nice and crispy, probably about half an hour.

Meanwhile, cook the sausage bits in a pan until they are browned on the outside / a little crispy (I just set it on the stove on high heat and stirred every once in awhile while I was doing the polenta).

Cook the onions in olive oil until they are soft and translucent.  To speed things up, heat up the chicken stock mixed with 1.5 cups of water in the microwave.  Once the onions are done boil the chicken stock and water in the pan.  Mix the grits with a cup of water and pour it gradually into the chicken stock/onions, stirring.  Just keep stirring until the polenta is creamy (Joy of Cooking said when it was "starting to come off the sides of the pan" but I have no clue what that means so I just tasted it), about 15-20 min.  At the end, add some salt and stir around.

Put some brussels and sausage on top of a scoop of polenta and mix it up.  If you don't eat it all, cover the polenta so it doesn't become gummy/rock-like before you get seconds.