PERSPECTIVES, Men & Women

50's perspectives on how to keep your husband.



My late mother, albeit "modern" with her cooking ideas, had some pretty scary ideas on how a wife should look after her husband...for example,

"Susan, are you cooking meat for Grégoire?

A man needs MEAT when he comes home from work, not salad."

Susan goes into a day dream imagining herself trussed up in roasting string and served on a platter. Then I'm out the door on sausage buying binges. I'm sure there is work for Freud chez moi.

A couple of weeks ago my friend Mary served up Delia Smith's fabulous sausage in mushroom sauce served with mashed potato..wonderful autumn comfort food.
I have my own sausage hot-pot recipe, made with duck sausages, which will be served tonight to beat away the autumn clouds.

Susie's Red Wine Sausage Hot-Pot

6 Duck sausages (adapt for vegetarians with Tofu sausages)

1 large onion

1/2 teaspoon Piment d'espellette/chilli

2 large fleshy tomatoes, the riper the better, cut into chunks

250 mushrooms, finely sliced

200ml tomato coulis

1 large glass Bordeaux red ( can be substituted with cider, in this case add a chopped apple too )

Method

Brown sausages, set aside

Put olive oil and piment into your Le Creuset casserole pot. Warm through and add chopped onion, sweat.

Add sausages, tomatoes, mushrooms, tomato coulis. Simmer and stir through for about 10 mins.

Add wine, pop lid on and siommer gently for about 45 mins.

Serve with Potato and parsely mash.