Sausages baked in the oven doused in good quality red wine make a delicious wholesome meal. Delicious sausages from my local Canonbury butcher;apple and pork and duck and apricot. I served them with a mash of carrot,potato and swede, seasoned well and added milk and butter. Trying to keep it seasonal, I added a steaming dish of steamed leeks. Best sausages I’ve eaten in a long time. Pay the butcher a visit on the corner of Highbury Grove and St Pauls Road in N5.
I followed this with an apple tart from Nigella Lawson. I made the sweet pastry the day before (my best so far) and kept it covered in the fridge over night. Just before my guests arrived I melted:
60 gms of butter very gently with 60 gms of castor sugar, beat in an egg with a few drops of vanilla and then grated in a Bramley apple. I poured this into the baking case and baked in a hot oven for 12 mins, followed by 15 minute on 180 degrees. See the photo below.
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