The Humble Sausage.

[icyfroth]

I was just thinking today how much I prefer sausages done on a barbecue than steak.

I have yet to attend a barbecue where the cook doesn't turn the steak into something resembling a slightly charred piece of cardboard.

Sausages, however, are hard to ruin. They're good on a bun, lathered in tomato sauce and topped with onions.

Then I thought about other sausages. Frankfurts, for instance. I love 'em on a hot dog roll, bit of Hot English Mustard, lots of Tomato Sauce. 

Aldi sell nice little sausages 5 in a jar. Bockwursts, they're called. We often have them for dinner in hot dog rolls after I've unpacked the shopping.  They also sell big fat Bratwursts (veal sausages), 4 in a cryovac pack. 

Fry them up and put on a bun, or they'r also nice served with Sauerkraut and potatoes. Yum.

Love the Sausage Sizzles they have at charity fundraisers or shop openings. Just the aroma from them on a Saturday morning at the kids footy game is tantalising, I find.

All hail the humble sausage.

[*mrgrizz*]

sausages should be cooked slowly on a low heat, without pricking

sausages in natural skins will curl as the skin wants to take it's natural shape

fake skins(collogen) will remain straight

[curmu-curmu]

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@*mrgrizz* wrote:

sausages should be cooked slowly on a low heat, without pricking

sausages in natural skins will curl as the skin wants to take it's natural shape

fake skins(collogen) will remain straight

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Spot on!  And turned frequently to prevent any curling. My wife says she just loves my straight sausage...

The ones in the pan - get your mind out of the gutter!

[sandypas]

I know tttt but I love them - I was mainly pointing out that I don't prick them.  If we have grilled/bbq sausages, I buy them from my cousin's son who makes his own - can't beat them.

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

I love them tooSandy. Sorry, was just being a sausage snob.

[jimmy*part4]

News Flash!

A Sausage was spotted casing my house yesterday. Identified by his organ donor card as Mr Jones with links to the skin head nation he was overheard challenging the PD...."come on and fight me.... no hands, are you chicken?" A real animal the police responded. He was boiling mad as he was led into the patty wagon.

The DA characterized the defendant as a seasoned criminal with a lengthy rap sheet. "These types can't be cured".  The judge noted, "he was tough to stomach!". Bail was denied and he was put on ice.

[ladydeburg]

Prick sausages? never and if they curl or bend who cares.

If you buy good quality then you will have experienced the rebirth of the gourmet sausage and all its flavour.

Talking about pricking sausages seems to me that they are still in the sausage past when they wern't that good but these days they are terrifc and cost up to $14 kilo at my butcher.

If you want to continue to buy cheap sausages then curry them but only if they are Pork.

[polksaladallie]

Take the plastic off and you can make them into any shape.  (Fun shapes for children for example).  Good sausages do not lose their juices or flavour.

[icyfroth]

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@j*oono wrote:
In your dreams Poddster.

lyndal. Something seriously wrong with you that you would troll me and kudo that post.

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Well your comment re giving up the prick years ago was very double-entendre, don't you think? 

looks like you're trying to board the outrage bus without a valid ticket.

[icyfroth]

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@jimmy*part3 wrote:

News Flash!

A Sausage was spotted casing my house yesterday. Identified by his organ donor card as Mr Jones with links to the skin head nation he was overheard challenging the PD...."come on and fight me.... no hands, are you chicken?" A real animal the police responded. He was boiling mad as he was led into the patty wagon.

The DA characterized the defendant as a seasoned criminal with a lengthy rap sheet. "These types can't be cured".  The judge noted, "he was tough to stomach!". Bail was denied and he was put on ice.

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Lucky the police foiled him lol

[cherry*135]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

Take the plastic off and you can make them into any shape.  (Fun shapes for children for example).  Good sausages do not lose their juices or flavour.

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Certainly a vast difference in quality (the ingredients used) between cheap supermarket sausages and more expensive ones.

I bought a bbq'ed sausage in a sour dough roll from a "German Hut' at a local market a few months ago, that was very tasty.