SMOKY VEGAN SAUSAGE AND POTATO CHOWDER

I don’t know about you, but, after all the feasting and festivities, we feel like eating pretty simple food.  But, given the cold Northern wind blowing here today over the water, it’s got to be solid winter food– solid, but not stodgy.  Tonight, of course, we’re having my vegan version of Hoppin’ John, a New Year’s tradition with Southern roots (I do have ancestors who hailed from Virginia).  The beans (or black-eyed peas, in this case) are for luck, along with some cooked greens for money, and some corn bread or brown rice (I haven’t decided yet). source: http://veganfeastkitchen.blogspot.com