Angry® Mustard on Angry® Sausage

Here it is again, time for our Improv Challenge where cooks are assigned a couple unlikely ingredients and asked to come up with a recipe. September’s selected components are Sausage & Mustard.  I decided that I’d also toss in apples and hard cider, since it’s (supposed to be) Fall. My favorite hard drink, any time of year, is Angry Orchard® Crisp Apple.The mustard needed to be made a couple weeks early. It’s flavor is rather “angry” now – there’s quite a bit of kick to it. Next time I’ll not use that much of the mustard powder…The sausage I thought a little dry. So, next time I will skip the turkey and use all pork! To save time, (and because our final dish needed sausage crumbled) we did not stuff the mixture into casings – but I would highly recommend that for boiling then grilling…Our favorite way to eat sausage is to boil them in beer, toss them on the grill, shove them into a soft & chewy hoagie roll, pile them high with grilled peppers & onions, then slather them with some deli mustard!Unfortunately, when life hands members of the family a low-sodium & gluten-free diet, you have to modify that dream dish…

What I visualized was a nice Bob’s Red Mill^® Gluten Free 1-to-1 Baking Flour dough that I could wrap up some sausage & onion/pepper hand pies… Regrettably, said dough didn’t quite get that visualization and consequently did not cooperate in the desired manner.

I did manage, however, to spread the stupid uncooperative offending @$#%*&^ tacky dough across a sheet of parchment to create a sausage and onion & pepper flat bread. I put down a little mustard before sprinkling on the other ingredients.Oh wow! That turned out better than I’d hoped!And then, of course, served the Angy Mustard along side…

Here are the links to the SAUSAGE & MUSTARD dishes my friends created:

An InLinkz Link-up

John Dough

My middle son loves him some bread! He is quite the connoisseur when it comes to artisan loaves.  He has begun to inform me of some menu ideas...


So, with our busy lives, I've come to the conclusion that if I wrap a meal in dough, it will be eaten. Quickly.  With the added bonus that it can be hand-carried & eaten in the car on the way, if need be.


Three examples of such:

1. Hot dogs - so boring! (Especially the chicken/turkey ones we've been buying lately...) Cut them in half & wrap them in a dough flavored with mustard & dried onions; you've achieved gourmet status when you dip that in a pool of ketchup!
2. Chili - Once a week I fix a big crock of black beans. Once a week I refrigerate the leftovers. Once a week I brown some hamburger, onions & garlic; toss in some canned tomatoes, douse it with chipotle & mix in the beans. Sometimes there are leftovers to be used with nachos -- but not this week!  I divided a batch of dough between a dozen muffin cups & made a large indention to fill with chili prior to baking.  (Breadman ate three, I believe...)
3. Chicken & spinach - if you remember our dish from here, you'll recall the fam devours this on a regular basis.  I can cram  um hide  no get rid of well, serve a couple pounds of spinach with a couple chicken breasts & pasta.  Struck mom-hood gold with this last week:

mmmmmm -- what could be inside that gorgeous crust?

No way! Not our chicken & spinach!?!

omit pasta & insert cream cheese... yum!

Directions:

• Sautée chicken, onion & spinach as pictured here.
• Make (or thaw :D) one batch of bread dough
• Divide dough in half. Spread bottom on pizza stone.
• Top with chunks of cream cheese, spinach mixture & generous amount of parmesan.
• Roll out top crust & place on pie. crimp edges to seal. Slit crust for steam.
• Bake at 425° until browned (about 30-35 minutes)
• Devour! 

Things I'm Loving...

I might have two weeks-worth... but I'm loving that blogger is working today! (Now if they'd just fix the dinosaur that is posting pics...)

I'm kinda sorta loving that I now have two teenage boys living with me. Mr.-in-the-middle turned 13 this past week...

He & my wonderful Daddy have birthdays 3 days apart.

I'm loving that my youngest helped make the pizzas for the birthday celebration.

(He even made the dough batches in the bread machine!)

Loving a late-arriving Mother's Day gift from hubs. Whereas our Chipotle Tabasco bottle was always close-to-empty, now it can always be full!

We loved having "Cousin Barney" come visit Auggie for a week.

I loved taking dinner to a man who came back from the dead. Literally! His doctors marvel (ummm -- God's not surprised!) at his miraculous 47 day recovery from what turned out to be a severe allergic reaction to a medication they gave him during routine surgery. Even his gangrenous toes they wanted to amputate are coming back to life! What an incredible testimony to our Creator!

I'm loving the slight spring-like reprieve we're having in our weather.

Loved finding this guy & his brothers waiting on the vine...



(grilled eggplant is a fave at our house!)

Totally love the new banner in the gym!

Loving that Aunt Cita gets to spend a little time with boys who haven't seen her for three years!


May 2008 - Cannon Beach on the Oregon coast



(May 2011 - her one food request...)



But what I'm loving most is that we're finished with the Virtual Academy -- so now I can have my computer back!

Just want to thank PaisleyJade for her weekly reminder:

I wholeheartedly believe that no matter what is happening in your life, there is always something that you can be thankful for... no matter how simple it is.