For Christmas, Stuart was given a sausage making kit, and we thought it was high time we put it to use! So we bought one and a half kilograms of pork mince, and set to work. The plan was to make delicious farmhouse sausages and to bake them into a stunning toad in the hole. Yes, a toad in the hole can certainly be stunning, which I can well testify to. This is the kit:
Stuart took great delight in squishing the mince and stirring it in well with the herb/breadcrumb mix, and we set about putting it into the casing. The plan is to put it in a big piping bag, and then pipe it into tubing (made of some part of a cow I don’t care to question). It’s essentially a giant condom. But it proved to be more difficult than we’d anticipated…
After much squishing, squeezing and harumphing, we gave up. I divided the mix into meatballs – voila a delightful, if sidetracked meal! Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And we do have the Cumberland sausage kit to try next weekend… maybe… We still have two big lumps of sausage meat in the freezer, with no tubing to go with it. So don’t be surprised if we invite you round for spaghetti and meatballs some time soon!