weekly_food_challenge | Entries tagged with meat: sausages

This recipe serves three, which is why so many of the ingredients are in multiples of three. It's important to leave the cloves of garlic as whole as possible (obvs there's going to be a bit of cracking etc from topping/tailing/peeling) so that you get nice soft lumps of garlic in the casserole. Don't worry that these will be overpowering; once they've stewed in the slow cooker for 8 or more hours they just become soft and delicious.

Equipment

Slow Cooker and wooden spoon
Knife and chopping board
Frying pan and hob

Ingredients:

9 sausage links - today I used Cumberland ones.
at least 1 bulb garlic, depending on the size of the bulb
3 carrots
3 smallish onions
3 sticks celery
9 mushrooms
a tin of tomatoes
oregano, rosemary, whatever other herbs you think go with this sort of thing
salt and pepper
Henderson's Relish

Method

Put the frying pan on to warm
Put the sausages in the pan to brown
While the sausages are browning, chuck the tin of tomatoes in the slow cooker, then peel and add the garlic in whole cloves
chop and add all your veg, to the chunkiness you prefer (I like it pretty chunky)
add in the salt, pepper, herbs, etc and give it a bit of a stir. It'll still all be mostly solid at this point, but don't worry about that.
Once the sausages are browned, put them in the slow cooker and deglaze the pan with the Henderson's relish.
Turn the slow cooker on to low and leave to cook for a good 8 hours or more, stirring as infrequently as you can stand to
Serve with jacket potatoes

moetushie

Mood: cheerful

I've eaten lentils my whole life, but this is the first time I've attempted lentil soup. (Dal is different, after all, and kichiri, my true food love, is different still.) It was cold! I was cold! Lentil soup is almost freakishly hearty! After eating a bowl of it, I don't think I'm able to eat anything else for a long time.

( Under the cut, a recipe and a picture. )

miss_s_b

Mood: busy

I've been a busy bee the last week, but it's not like I didn't fry anything, so I thought I would share with you how I make a sausage sandwich. This is pretty quick, and happens a couple of times a week.

Equipment Needed:

Frying pan/skillet
hob
Chopping board
knife
toaster, or preheated grill

Ingredients:

Two sausages
A tomato
Two slices of bread

( Method and exciting photo under the cut )

miss_s_b

Mood: full

Not so much a recipe as What I Had For My Tea, this one. The leftovers were pigs in blankets, of which we STILL have a pack left, and half a tin of Heinz Beanz.

I put the pigs in blankets on a baking tray along with some frozen sweet potato fries, seasoned the fries and threw them in the oven for 25 minutes at 200°c. After buggering about on T'internet for circa 20 minutes, I adulterated the beans (salt, pepper, Hendo's, dried oregano, garlic granules) and then tossed them in the microwave for one minute. Then I stirred them and put them back in for another 30 seconds. Then I piled everything on a plate. Then I et it.

It looked like this:

… and it was delicious.

I'm a big believer in adulterating beans, btw, especially since they're all reduced salt these days and I have low blood pressure.

el_staplador

This is one of my favourite things to cook in the slow cooker. I'm posting the recipe as it's meant to be done rather than as I did it, because the changes were borne of necessity and didn't improve it. That said, you can mess around with the quantities without hurting it - e.g. it doesn't matter much how big the sausage is (fnarr fnarr), or whether you get the full 400g of tomatoes.

1 chorizo sausage (200g or so), cut into thick slices
2 garlic cloves, peeled/sliced
250g new potatoes, washed and cut into thick slices
400g cherry tomatoes, halved
2 tbsp dry sherry
1tsp caster sugar

With the slow cooker on High, cook the chorizo and garlic for 30 minutes until the fat has started to melt from the chorizo.

Meanwhile, cook the potatoes - either on the hob in a pan of boiling water, or nuke them in a microwaveable bowl with a dribble of water - for five minutes. Drain.

Add everything to the slow cooker and cook (still on High) for another two hours.

Salt and pepper as necessary. The book says to finish with chopped parsley, but I can never be bothered.

For what it's worth, the changes I made this time were:
- an extra clove of garlic, because it was beginning to sprout. Fine.
- old potatoes rather than new. Not recommended - they started to break up, although the taste was still fine.
- skipped the first step and just bunged everything in together, because I was going out. Not recommended - it meant stuff stuck to the sides.

cosmochemistry

I went to the farmer's market this week, so here's a recipe using some of the stuff I got!

Ingredients:

Turkey sausage (don't know what size, sorry)
~3 oz sour cream
1 plum tomato
1 green onion
~8 mint leaves

Chop the tomato, mint, and onion and put aside. Cut the sausage into disks and brown; combine all ingredients in a bowl.

I had it with applesauce on the side, it would probably be good over pasta or with spinach.

miss_s_b

tl;dr: use the oven and lots of butter.

Your options for this breakfast are:

sausages (meaty or veggie)
mushrooms
soft sliced onions
hash browns
black pudding
fresh tomatoes (not tinned, though)
baked beans
bacon (or facon for vegetarians)
fried bread
toast
fried eggs

( this is how I do it )
I am aware that some people prefer scrambled eggs rather than fried for breakfast; that's not really practical with this breakfast, what with everything else that's going on, but you can check out a scrambled egg recipe here (good set of comments on that post too).

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Weekly Food Challenge

A challenge for cooks every Wednesday

Entries tagged with meat: sausages

Challenge #37: Garlic - Slow-cooked sausage casserole

CHALLENGE #30 - SWEET POTATO - Saturday Lentil Soup

Challenge #29: Fried Things: Today's Breakfast

Challenge #26: leftovers

Sneaking in before miss_s_b changes the theme: slow cooker chorizo in sherry

[Challenge 21 - Mint] Sausage with sour cream & veggies

How to do a cooked breakfast with lots of elements for people who all want different things

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