L*rd, glorious l*rd!

[reddragdiva]

It's not l*rd, though, if it's butter, is it? Good.

• Eight sausages (the mid-range line from Sainsbury's)
• What started as 400g mushrooms (in the fridge two weeks; a bit dried out)
• Two large baking potatoes
• Two half-cobs of corn
• Butter. Mmmmmm.

Bake the potatoes for about forty-five minutes. You've all got your Bee Nilson to hand, haven't you? (By the way, has anyone checked out the update?) So you know they're done when they're softish to the slight squeeze (with a teatowel).

Around this time you should have the water for the corn boiled. Put the corn in. Prick the potatoes - beware the little jet of steam - turn the oven off and leave the potatoes in there.

Start the sausages and the mushrooms - which you will have cut into fairly thin slices, since they're getting dry - frying in butter. A fair bit of butter. Don't fry on the highest heat, because you'll take a bit of time over them - about twenty minutes instead of the usual ten to fifteen.

Serve yourself and your sweetie. More butter on the corn and the potatoes (which will need a fair whack, actually). A bit of salt on the potatoes and corn.

(also posted to food_porn)

Comments

Coronary on a plate...

[grumpy-sysadmin.livejournal.com]

... British-style.

But what, no chips?

Re: Coronary on a plate...

[reddragdiva]

No, we're back in London now. So the potatoes are kept in their large and lumpy form.

Yummy shrooms

[vatine]

If you want some Seriously Nice Mushrooms...

• Prep mushrooms as normal, fry on low-to-medium heat, with lots of butter
• Add salt & pepper to taste
• Make sure there's a fair amount of butter
• When there's about 5 minutes left, either add water with starch or sprinkle with some flour and add some water (not too much! this is to thicken).
• Add a sprinkle of a nice single malt. I usually use some 20yo Bruichladdich

Re: Coronary on a plate...

[redcountess]

I think Diva and I have had our fill of chips from our holiday up North!

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/lard.html

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

That's some serious cholesterol! Can I just have the corn and a couple of slices of crusty bread?

Mmmm, corn on the cob. Even nicer if you add a teaspoon of good maple syrup to the cooking water.

[reddragdiva]

Oh, baybee! I can see just how that'd work on the corn ... I think we'll be trying that next time. Does it still want or need salt or butter?

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I'm not big on adding salt to food - I'd probably just serve slightly salted butter with the cobs.