Today I invented a dish, there were a lot of chipolatas in the fridge, so I chopped up 2 red onions, a yellow pepper, half a green chili, half a dozen cherry tomatoes and tossed them in lemon juice mixed with fajita spice and laid them on the bottom of a roasting dish (well, actually, it was an oval, blue Le Creuset dish - so a little more attractive). Then a layer of sausages - uncooked - on top. Cover this with some lumps of parboiled potatoes, drizzle with olive oil plus salt and pepper. Bake at medium to high oven for about 20 minutes, stir it all up to ensure more of the potatoes get crisp and cook another 10-15 mins.
This worked quite well, for people who like fajita spice and sausages and potatoes - I love really good sausages, but this is very much the sort of dish I don't much like. However the other members of the family like it a lot. I would have added butternut squash and rather more tomato and pepper and left out the sausages, potatoes and fajita spice... But this isn't really an interesting dish - just a cooking method. All sorts of ingredients could be substituted. It would be less oily to toss the potatoes in the oil, rather than add it to the dish.
What I ate
Salade nicoise again, followed by a couple of teaspoons of oreo ice cream, and a bit of the antique strawberry ice at the back of the freezer.
I also made some very sour sourdough bread - and some banana and blueberry muffins. Recipies later.
This worked quite well, for people who like fajita spice and sausages and potatoes - I love really good sausages, but this is very much the sort of dish I don't much like. However the other members of the family like it a lot. I would have added butternut squash and rather more tomato and pepper and left out the sausages, potatoes and fajita spice... But this isn't really an interesting dish - just a cooking method. All sorts of ingredients could be substituted. It would be less oily to toss the potatoes in the oil, rather than add it to the dish.
What I ate
Salade nicoise again, followed by a couple of teaspoons of oreo ice cream, and a bit of the antique strawberry ice at the back of the freezer.
I also made some very sour sourdough bread - and some banana and blueberry muffins. Recipies later.
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