cooked Saucisson

[ianh]

First grow tasty pumpkins - Rouge V'if D'etamps (spelling)is a good one. Just roast in oven with meat - sprinkle thyme and/or Rosemary. Make sure it caramelises a bit - then tell me you don't like pumpkin.

[wibble]

But you've added sprinkles so its not just pumpkin you have added additional flavourings ;D

[Elkay]

I grow the pumpkin variety 'musquee de provence' as I prefer the texture to the more common variety. Having said that, potimarron (not sure of sp on either) are tasty too - the chef at our local restuarant; Le Bienvenue in Roudouallec (Roudouallec has a pumpkin festival every October) recomends that you chop up a potimarron, boil it down gently without any added liquid; add no flavouring at all of any sort and then just 'zizz' it and serve. I have tried it, and find it good.

LK

[ianh]

Jun 26, 2011 20:30:49 GMT 1 wibble said:

But you've added sprinkles so its not just pumpkin you have added additional flavourings ;D

Well I have wibble - but sprinkling a couple of herbs on is not gastroscience. I wouldn't roast potatoes without salt, pepper and a sprig or two of herbs and garlic. Very few other veg too - love mint on peas, summer savoury with beans, rosemary and cider with carrots - doesn't mean the veg ain't nice ones. And wouldn't cook a chicken, joint of pork, beef or lamb without flavourings

I think you're being pedantic here.

[wowplantz]

So this sausage stuff, which is already cooked or cured, can be eaten cold as bought, fried to make it crispy, or added, as bought, without any more cooking, to some vegetable- based dish to be cooked in the oven?

Is there anything you can't do with this stuff? Does it crank up the flavour of pumpkin so much that it makes growing pumpkins seem like a good idea, because I've spent a long life avoiding them? If I spend more on, say, chorizo, is it worth the extra money, because I suppose you can add spices to the cheap stuff?

Thanks for all your replies. I've learned something today.

[Madame Moorhen]

Jun 26, 2011 19:38:12 GMT 1 Elkay said:

Hi, wowplantz. We often use the cheap garlic sausage to add to pumpkin with a few onions, a little tomato and a tiny bit of cream or creme fraiche (depending on what we have) in the autumn and winter to make a delicious pumpin bake

LK

oooooh dear LK I read that last word as cake for a moment and was thinking YACK

;D ;D ;D

[wibble]

peas have a sweet taste and most other veg tastes just superb when fresh and served entirely on their own merit ......... simply that everyones favourites pumpkin recipe has to be flavoured with something ............... not trying to be pedantic ;D ;D

Yep I know Roudallecs pumpkin festival .......... very near to me carving faces seems to be very popular