Now we are more than lucky for we are blessed with the friendship of a young Sicilian woman called Daniela, her father is a butcher and she learnt at a young age how to make sausages. She lives in London and sells them to friends.
So we are ahead of 'the game' as it were, for the recipe coming up has them in it, we asked Daniela for a recipe when she went back for a while to Sicily and, bless her heart, she gave us one. I don't know if it is exactly the same as the ones she sells but my mum has made these and they ain't bad.
So let's give you the sausage recipe first..
500g of minced pork.
50mls of strong red wine.
1 tsp of fennel seeds.
1 tsp of chilli flakes, try and chop them so that the pieces are not too big.
1 tsp of finely chopped fresh rosemary.
Freshly ground salt and pepper.
In a good sized bowl, combine all the sausage ingredients, mix very well and season with salt and pepper.
Taking a chunk at a time, roll the sausagemeat into a sausage shape, place them individually into a piece of tin foil which completely covers the sausage shape and wraps around a bit more and close the ends tightly by twisting them
Have a pan of boiling water, place the sausages into the water and poach them for about 3 minutes.
Scoop them out of the water and allow them to cool in the foil.
When cool, remove them from the foil and cut them into long chunks.
Now for the Chicken & Sausage with Polenta recipe.
You need..
1.5 litres of water.
300g of Polenta, the quick variety, not the slow cooking one!
150g Fontina cheese in small cubes.
150g unsalted butter.
150g freshly grated Parmesan.
1 large white sliced onion.
400g of chicken meat cut into chunks.
200g of your homemade sausages.
100ml dry white wine.
800g of chopped canned tomatoes.
8 tbp olive oil.
Salt & pepper.
A large pan for the polenta and a frying pan for the meat.
Bring the water to a fast boil with a little salt.
Add the polenta slowly and cook, stirring until it is smooth and thickened, this takes about 6 minutes, Add the cubes of Fontina, the butter and Parmesan and stir well to combine them all together.
In the frying pan fry the onion in the olive oil unti soft but not browned, add the chicken and the chunks of sausage.
Allow them both to brown a little, add the white wine and season with salt & pepper.
Cook gently for about five minutes, add the tomatoes and cook for about a further 20 minutes.
We love this dish.. and you will too.. dish up a big dollop of polenta and place the stew on top.
What we ate tonight was out of this world.. she has an allotment friend called Robert whose allotment edges she strims now and again. He greeted her to day with "Hey, thanks for strimming, would you like some Sweet Corn?".. what do you think the answer was?
We have just eaten one.. talk about huge and fresh and sweet and simply delicious! That was all she wanted, together with a couple of tangerines, what a lovely and very simple supper.
She found a real treat this week at the library. One of her favourite authors, Daniel Silva, has published a new book, it is called 'The English Spy', I cannot tell you anything about it as it is lying unopened on the bed, she'll start it tonight.
Off to see Debbie Goaty mum early tomorrow at Parson's Green Farmers Market, then onto the plots for a full days work digging and scratching. Then more fiddling around on Monday on behalf of that demented idiot upstairs.. sigh.. but as the weather forecast is for lots and lots of rain on Monday, with dry but unsettled for the rest of the week, it's ok and staying at home until 12.30am 'might' mean that some housework gets done!
FlapFlap.. I'm off to molest a cashew nut which she's just thrown to the end of the bed.
GeeGee Parrot.
September 19th, 2015.
So we are ahead of 'the game' as it were, for the recipe coming up has them in it, we asked Daniela for a recipe when she went back for a while to Sicily and, bless her heart, she gave us one. I don't know if it is exactly the same as the ones she sells but my mum has made these and they ain't bad.
So let's give you the sausage recipe first..
500g of minced pork.
50mls of strong red wine.
1 tsp of fennel seeds.
1 tsp of chilli flakes, try and chop them so that the pieces are not too big.
1 tsp of finely chopped fresh rosemary.
Freshly ground salt and pepper.
In a good sized bowl, combine all the sausage ingredients, mix very well and season with salt and pepper.
Taking a chunk at a time, roll the sausagemeat into a sausage shape, place them individually into a piece of tin foil which completely covers the sausage shape and wraps around a bit more and close the ends tightly by twisting them
Have a pan of boiling water, place the sausages into the water and poach them for about 3 minutes.
Scoop them out of the water and allow them to cool in the foil.
When cool, remove them from the foil and cut them into long chunks.
Now for the Chicken & Sausage with Polenta recipe.
You need..
1.5 litres of water.
300g of Polenta, the quick variety, not the slow cooking one!
150g Fontina cheese in small cubes.
150g unsalted butter.
150g freshly grated Parmesan.
1 large white sliced onion.
400g of chicken meat cut into chunks.
200g of your homemade sausages.
100ml dry white wine.
800g of chopped canned tomatoes.
8 tbp olive oil.
Salt & pepper.
A large pan for the polenta and a frying pan for the meat.
Bring the water to a fast boil with a little salt.
Add the polenta slowly and cook, stirring until it is smooth and thickened, this takes about 6 minutes, Add the cubes of Fontina, the butter and Parmesan and stir well to combine them all together.
In the frying pan fry the onion in the olive oil unti soft but not browned, add the chicken and the chunks of sausage.
Allow them both to brown a little, add the white wine and season with salt & pepper.
Cook gently for about five minutes, add the tomatoes and cook for about a further 20 minutes.
We love this dish.. and you will too.. dish up a big dollop of polenta and place the stew on top.
What we ate tonight was out of this world.. she has an allotment friend called Robert whose allotment edges she strims now and again. He greeted her to day with "Hey, thanks for strimming, would you like some Sweet Corn?".. what do you think the answer was?
We have just eaten one.. talk about huge and fresh and sweet and simply delicious! That was all she wanted, together with a couple of tangerines, what a lovely and very simple supper.
She found a real treat this week at the library. One of her favourite authors, Daniel Silva, has published a new book, it is called 'The English Spy', I cannot tell you anything about it as it is lying unopened on the bed, she'll start it tonight.
Off to see Debbie Goaty mum early tomorrow at Parson's Green Farmers Market, then onto the plots for a full days work digging and scratching. Then more fiddling around on Monday on behalf of that demented idiot upstairs.. sigh.. but as the weather forecast is for lots and lots of rain on Monday, with dry but unsettled for the rest of the week, it's ok and staying at home until 12.30am 'might' mean that some housework gets done!
FlapFlap.. I'm off to molest a cashew nut which she's just thrown to the end of the bed.
GeeGee Parrot.
September 19th, 2015.
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