A pre Christmas meal, with sausages

As I had 2 recipes for vegetarian and vegan sausages, I thought we'd do a trial to see which one would end in the next cookery book.

Although they both tasted nice, the vegan version stuck together better and was voted for another mention.

Hiroe cut up some more onions to make an onion gravy to go with the sausages.

The carrots we had was with a honey glaze and the mashed potatoes we had use the riser, it works beautifully, just light and fluffy, especially after adding in some butter and mayonnaise.

As I needed a dish to put in the oven to keep it warm and the silver surrounding needed a good clean, we used a cut potato to polish the silver with. A little tip for every one.

We had  a very festive and tasty lunch.

Vegan Sausages Mash potatoes and Roasted Carrots

Today we compared vegan sausages with vegetarian sausages. We all decided that the vegan version was the best and should go into the next book From Spade to Plate 3.

We made a mash potato, roasted carrot dish with vegan/vegetarian sausages. Rather conventional but very tasty.




 

Mushrooms

Today we focussed on mushrooms as Paola gave me a kit over Christmas and thought it might be nice to experiment together.  Carmen and June were in charge of this and hope that in the next weeks we can start harvesting our first mushrooms.



 This is what it looked like after 6 days. Not much yet, hopefully a better update next week.

Today I bought mine and made some  mushroom bourguignon and mashed potatoes.

Lovely taste and very easy to make.


We were pleased that the sun came out so had an improntu walk in the garden.
Apple trees are budding first signs of life of the bulbs and chives.