Sizzling Sausages
Last weekend, my friends Sandy and Phil organised a sausage-making day at their house for all of us who are part of the pig cooperative. Twenty-two of us gathered to experiment with different flavours, try our hands at actually making the sausages, eat them up and, most importantly, have some fun together and get to know each other a bit more.
We had five flavours to do (traditional English, sage, leek, ginger and apricot, and sweet pepper and chilli) and we divided into groups to make them up, fry little patties, re-adjust the flavours till we got it just right. The children had great fun getting messy mixing and making the sausages, jumping on the trampoline, chasing the chickens and coo-ing over the twelve little ducklings that Phil collected in the middle of the afternoon (two will be coming my way when they're ready for the table.... yum!). The day was finished off with a tasting session complete with mashed potatoes, red cabbage and onion gravy, and we even got to take home lots of sausages for the freezer too.
I could write lots now about the importance of building social capital; of the key role that community must play in our climate-changed, peak-oiled future; of the need for us to re-learn some of these old skills.... and so on. In the end, though, it was simply a fantastic way to spend a Saturday.
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