PANINO CON SALSICCIA E UOVA!
So after coming clean about my food magazine addiction, Laura (a.k.a Ms HHDD queen) arrived into La Cucina with a copy of a new Irish magazine called Intermezzo. It's great to see another Irish food magazine on the shelves, I really like the Fine Food and Wine magazine that comes with the Irish Independant also, it always has great articles on the Irish food scene.
Sticking with the addiction theme we tend to watch a lot of food programmes, UkTV Food is on in our house permanently even though it's getting a bit of competition from the Baby Channel at the moment. I have to say we really miss our daily installment of Jenny and Great Food Live. Market Kitchen is their new offering and although I complain a lot about it I still watch it every evening.
I enjoyed it last week as Angela Hartnett was on, promoting her new book on Italian food so it was Italian recipes for the week. I never knew she had Italian connections, her style of cooking is great - down to earth, easy to cook Italian food. She made a really nice veal dish with a caper and parsley sauce which is definitely going to be reproduced in the "Italian foodie" household!
On Tuesday night "the urban chef" was in the Borough Market cooking with local produce and he made a sandwich with local sausages and duck eggs. We hadn't decided what to eat at this stage so it was straight down to La Cucina for the ingredients for an Italian version - sometimes owning your own business has it's advantages especially at 9 o'clock at night.
To all you foodie lovers out there this sandwich is a must! I can't describe how tasty it was. It's great when something unplanned and thrown together turns out so well. The 2 of us sat in the kitchen in silence at the breakfast counter at 10pm stuffing our faces, it's one of those messy ones with lots of finger licking, lots of napkins and lots of oohing and aahing!
WHAT YOU NEED!
- Italian sausages - we sell packs of 4 in La Cucina. We used 2 per sandwich.
- free range eggs
- Italian bread - we used our bruschetta bread which was perfect as we sliced it thinly but you could use ciabatta or a country style bread.
- rocket
- spicy ketchup - we found this great ketchup in Superquinn called Stokes Spicy Tomato Ketchup, it was perfect a match.
WHAT TO DO:
- take the skin off your sausages and cut them in half. Cook them on a grill pan.
- fry your eggs - cook them soft but not runny.
- we cooked the bread on the grill pan in the juices of the sausages.
- put it all together and "MANGIA MANGIA"!
Buon Appetito!!
Also on Angela Hartnett - I bought the book, have been meaning to write a review. It's excellent. Really really good. My brother's girlfriend is Italian and was looking through it - she couldn't believe it was written by someone English. Said it was extremely authentic and even the photos looked like things she could get back home. I guess that's saying something! ;-)
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In regards to food and wine, sometimes I do think they focus a lot on Dublin and more on fine dining. I think this month's issue was good though, there were some good features and I did like a few of the recipes, it seems to be changing it's focus.. I think there's been a big shift in regards to eating out in Ireland and people no longer just want posh fare which is great every now and again, but they want access to good quality, down to earth affordable food in a casual setting.
That's why I love Italy so much, you can have both and to be honest any of the more upmarket restaurants I have eaten in have only been average whereas the casual familly owned trattoria that doesn't even have a candle or background music would have the best food I've ever tasted!
I tried to get Angela Hartnett's book tonight but it wasn't in stock - damn! You're just going to have to cook some of her recipes and post about them - not too many though I don't want to be put out of a job!:) You have to make this sandwich it is soooo good!! The diet can start Monday!:)
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