We also differ in our eating styles. I HATE food in bed. I don't understand breakfast in bed, bringing food into the bedroom, snacking in the bedroom - anything related with food in the bed grosses and freaks me out. Husband is always trying to bother me by sneaking chips into the bed, eating ice cream in bed, and snacking in the bed. It makes me nuts. Husband does NOT enjoy "street fairs" and "food fairs" as he doesn't enjoy eating standing up and walking. He likes to be seated properly on some sort of table with the food laid out in front of him in some sort of order and he can see the exact landscape of his meal. I, on the other hand, love the idea grabbing something to eat that I have to walk to enjoy. I love the sheer piping hotness of the food and the slightly precarious experience of eating while walking. This may explain why I am so effective at running around my kitchen, feeding my kids and getting my lunch down my throat all at the same time.
11 years ago, while Husband and I were engaged, I visited him in NYC where he was doing some training. It was a weekend of just spending time together in the city, and one of the things that we did was end up at some Italian Food Street Fair. The smell was incredible and I was dying to eat something at the fair. I must have looked very hopeful and eager because Husband asked if I wanted to eat something, to which I emphatically replied YES. We walked around staring and studying the many many choices, and then I saw what I wanted -these thick crusty rolls stuffed with a homemade sausage and topped with a mixture of peppers and onions. I pointed out my heart's desire, and Husband gallantly purchased the most delicious mix of flavors that I had ever eaten on a street. I think Husband was slightly shocked at how quickly I took down the sausage on a roll, but it was just THAT delicious and that amazing that I couldn't stop eating it.
With three kids in tow, the days of street fair eating have pretty much come to a screeching halt. But I still think about that sausage on a roll, and I decided I really wanted one, even if I had to do it at home and walk around me kitchen to recreate the effect. I made some using Ina Garten's Sauteed Onions and Peppers recipe and just toasted my own buns and heated up some sausage. I served the kids, I served myself and I walked round my kitchen eating it. It was...near perfect. (only thing missing was the freedom to enjoy my roll walking around and not having to help Son and Daughters do the same.) They loved it as well, and all in all - a great big, huge hit!
By the way, if you can find it, this is one of my favorite things...tomato paste in a toothpaste tube
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Sausages on a Roll with Peppers and Onions
adapted from recipe by Ina Garten
Serves 8 (or fewer depending on how many you can eat)
Ingredients
5 large yellow onions (you need about 10 cups)
¼ cup olive oil
2 red bell peppers, julienned
2 yellow bell peppers, julienned
4 cloves garlic, minced
¼ cup white wine vinegar
1 tablespoon tomato paste
½ teaspoon red pepper flakes (leave out if you don’t want spicy)
1 teaspoon kosher salt
½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
8 sweet Italian sausages, cooked either on the grill or in a pan
8 buns, toasted on the grill or in a toaster
Method
Cut the onions in half, and then slice them into 1/8-inch-thick half-rounds. (You will have about 10 cups of onions.)
Heat the olive oil in a large saute pan over medium heat. Add the onions and saute for 15 to 20 minutes. Add the peppers, garlic, vinegar, tomato paste, pepper flakes, salt and pepper and continue cooking an additional 10 minutes.
Top each heated bun and sausage with a mound of the pepper onion mixture. Stand up, walk around and enjoy.
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1 comments:
This sounds just up our alley. My kids would go nuts for this. Delicious - thanks
Mary
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