After having contemplated poached meatballs a la Ea, I prepared a classical Italian family comfort food:
salsiccia con piselli.
There it goes. First I made a tomato sauce with some tomato paste and water.
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Then it was the unfreezing of a bunch of sweet peas. Then the sausage, about a pound of it, that was mounted with 3 long wood picks and put in a pan covered with water and cooked. In this way, while the water evaporates, the sausage cooks and produces its fat in which the sausage gets browned. I take it out, collect the juice with some Marsala (the Italian Sherry) and stir in the peas with the sauce. I work it a bit with the sausage, and arrange it in a dish. After cutting it in the 3 portions that I need that is what it looked like.
I served it
with mashed potatoes. Wife got a glass of Barbera d'Asti. Little daughter and yours truly sparkling water. Again no dessert but nespresso.