Sausages4Ever

i'm gonna try and restrict myself to one sausage sandwich a week, to avoid fatigue. So, in the absence of any review today (although under normal circumstances i would be repeating the aforementioned chorizo wonder on a monday), maybe a few words on what makes a good sausage sandwich, maybe even my ideal. Well a good start is some nice thick bread. Decent wholemeal would be my preferance, but you cant have everything. There are few things better than thick, imperfectly sliced hunks of bread (ie not sliced by a mchine). Ok so on the bread i want some butter, fairly thinly spread. In terms of some sort of filling then less is often more. Personally, I love a bit of rocket, maybe some fresh tomato. Obviously, you need some sausages. Now I'm not going into detail as regards my favourite ypes of sausage, but suffice to say I want some decent quality sausages in a sandwich. More importantly, the sausages should be, for practicality, sliced in half and laid flat. I would look for 2 sausages per sandwich. There is something utopian about a sandwich stuffed full of rounded whole sausages, but as you and i know, this must remain a dream. Finding half your sausages falling out due to the instability of the sandwich is certainly a nightmare scenario.
another important thing is what sort of sauce/dressing to use. persanlly, i love a bit of honey and mustard dressing, althought that is really meant to be used for salad. It works well with many different types of meat. More recently, i have been learning about other things, such as onion marmelade, which Ed alerted me to. Following extensive research however, i find most shop onion marmelades to be far too sweet (i know, i know, its 'marmelade', but i just cant hack it), so prefer my own homemade version. This is by no means the only alternative however. A trip to Wales where i met my cousin in law, Jimi Mistry, opened my eyes to all manner of chutneys, of which he is a great fan. particularly good was pear, and shallot, although i dont think the former would go well in a sausage sandwich. However, some fruit based chutneys work well in a sandwich, eg Plum.

Finally, i suppose the sandwich should be cut in half, although i am only half-heartedly endorsing that, as it is awesome to pick up a whole sandwich in both hands and eat like a pig.

serve with ginger beer.