Dark Days: It’s the sausage, stupid!

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

I can’t say enough good things about Griggstown Quail Farm chicken sausage.  The white wine sausage is good, but the broccoli rabe sausage is tremendous!

Lancaster Farm Fresh sent some really great looking spinach over to the Fair Food Farmstand recently, so I served the sausage with lightly cooked spinach.  There’s something so awesome about fresh spinach at this time of the year.  It makes me want to get out in the garden and plant some seeds!  Granted, I probably could - it’s supposed to be 70 degrees here tomorrow!

I also had a couple of purple carrots on hand from Tuscarora Organic Growers Coop.  I used a vegetable peeler to slice the carrot into thin ribbons and then gave them a quick blanching.  Sadly, the carrots turned from purple to light brownish-purple.  But the cooking water was bright purple!