Posts Tagged ‘Sausage’
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
Day two of me pulling my finger out is another local hero from our stay in New York late last year, and trades the buttery crusts of pies for another American obsession. Barbecue.
I’ve wanted to visit Fette Sau since I read about it three or four years ago. Last time I was in New York, I failed to get my ‘cue on, so this time I vowed not to fly home without coating my face in barbecue sauce.
Tucked away down a side alley in Williamburgh, Brooklyn, Fette Sau is a temple to meat. The walls are adorned with scrawlings of different cuts of various four legged beasts, knives hang behind the bar, the white tiled walls are all butcher shop, and they sell their wares by weight as opposed to portion, which is great from a trying everything point of view. It also exposed the tactical eaters we overheard rejecting anything on the bone as it’s “…dead weight, man…”, which means no ribs, which is crazy right??
I wanted to try as much as I could, so after much deliberation I pulled together what I figured would be a killer selecta. Black Angus Brisket, Spicy Berkshire Pork Sausage, Pulled Berkshire Pork Shoulder, Duroc baby Back Ribs, Burnt-End Baked Beans and some green stuff to keep my digestive system alive. Now I was pretty pleased with the ribs that I made earlier in the year, but this was some next level business. The words that follow are not going to do what I ate justice, because I loved every friggin’ mouthful so much, but here’s a taster.
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Tags: Baby Back Ribs, Baked Beans, Barbecue, BBQ, Beef, Berkshire, Black Angus, Brisket, Burned Ends, Duroc, Fette Sau, New York, Pig, Pork, Pulled Pork, Sausage, Spicy, Williamsburgh
Posted in Dinner, Lunch, Opinion, Travel | 1 Comment »
Friday, September 9th, 2011
Morning / afternoon all.
Apologies for the radio silence. It’s almost been a week since I finished the course at the SFBI, and I’ve been enjoying a few well earned days off. I’ve got a bunch more posts in the bank to write, so if I can pull my finger out, I’ll get to these very soon. AND I’ve also got exciting news about some work experience that I’ve hopefully lined up here for the next couple of weeks.
But back to this week. It was something lurking in my in my in-box on Wednesday that has tempted me back to Wordpress, and that was the launch of the new Big Apple Hot Dogs site. I mentioned it briefly in this post, but I worked with the very talented chaps over at Nation on the site before I left for California.
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Tags: Abiye, Big Apple Hot Dogs, branding, Bun, Butcher, Food, Launch, New York, Old Street, Parallax Scrolling, Sausage, Website
Posted in Opinion, Reviews | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
The Great British Fry Up is a thing of beauty when done right, and probably one of the most disappointing food experiences when it’s cocked up. These days the classic fry up at a ‘greasy spoon’ has increasingly been replaced by the ‘posh’, expensive version served in gastro pubs and the like, and many of the old school cafés have gone with it. Earlier in the year, an old favourite caff of mine, Rossi’s in Spitalfields, closed its doors after 50 plus years of serving happy punters. A sad day.
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Tags: Bacon, Bubble & Squeak, Cafe, Egg, Fry Up, London, Pimlico, Regency, Sausage, Victotia
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
I’m a big fan of the humble banger, and It’s British Sausage Week, so if you’ve been neglecting one of the Western World’s greatest inventions, nows your chance to make amends. I don’t know why, but food writers tend not to eulogise about the sausage in the same way that they might do about oysters or fois gras, but I read a great article by Matthew Fort on the subject a few years ago which for some reason I kept. I think he sums up the appeal pretty well.
“As far as I’m concerned, the sausage is just about man’s noblest creation. It is a wonder (or should be), a perfect piece of design, elegant and economical…Sausages are classless, as acceptable on the table of the royal family as on that of the Royle family. Is there anyone who does not smile at the sight of a sausage? Who’s mouth does not salivate just a bit at the thought of that first bite?”
So in honour of the banger and British Sausage Week, here’s a recipe for a warming and tasty sausage casserole. It’s a bit of a French remix of a Delia recipe, and is the perfect dish for this time of year.
Ingredients
6 good quality Toulouse sausages
4 cloves of garlic, roughly chopped
150 g lardons
15 shallots, peeled
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Tags: casserole, French, Garlic, Mashed Potato, Red Wine, Sausage, Shallots, Toulouse
Posted in Dinner, Opinion, Recipes | 2 Comments »
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
Back to New York, if only briefly, for a quick bit about what might be my favourite place to eat breakfast in the World. Serious claim I know, but Williamsburgh’s Egg is amazing. So amazing in fact that the New York visit prior to this one I think we had breakfast there 3 times out of the 5 days we were there. We only managed twice this time, but if I lived in the neighborhood I’d have to stop myself eating here every bloody day of the week.
Egg is a really unassuming place tucked on a little side road off Bedford Avenue in Williamsburgh. It’s light years away from the city’s brash diners (that I also love) and has a really relaxed almost ‘hippyish’ atmosphere. The owners have their own little farm on the outskirts of New York state, which supplies as much produce to the restaurant as possible. (more…)
Tags: Breakfast, Brioche, Cheese, Chili, Egg, Eggs Rothko, Farm, Fennel, New York, Sausage, Williamsburgh
Posted in Opinion, Reviews, Travel | 1 Comment »
Monday, October 5th, 2009
Think it’s probably time that I shut up about food related adventures from our US road trip, but before I do, I HAD to give a heads up on Chicago’s number one sausage emporium, Hot Doug’s.
Now, Chicago is a town that loves it’s hot dogs, and for the peeps of the windy city, this place is the stuff of legend. Everyone seems to have a Hot Doug’s related story, and if you’ve not been, you feel a bit left out.
To cut a long story short, there’s a guy called Doug who makes the most amazing speciality hot dogs that come in a bewildering and surprising array of flavours. And when I say bewildering, I mean it. Pork, duck, lamb, beef, weisswurst, bratwurst, veal, rattlesnake, vegetarian…I could go on. Doug’s place is pretty much in the middle of nowhere, so if you’re an un-escorted newbie, you can pretty much forget about finding it (we were lucky enough to have a couple of willing guides). But, despite the location, the place is RAMMED every day. It’s open between 11am and 4pm, and there’s a queue pretty much from opening to closing. (more…)
Tags: Apple, Buns, Chicago, Duck, Fois Gras, Hot Dogs, Hot Doug's, Merguez, Sausage, Veal
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