Celebrating a brand new romantic look for The Restaurant @ The Mill with a ‘Winter Warmer‘ feature!
This is week 2 in an 8 week series of recipes to ward off those winter blues and warm you up from the inside out!
Along the way there are a few guests who will be bringing their own winter favourites too. Look out for the free downloadable Winter Warmer recipe booklet available here on 27 December 2013!
Winter sausages – hearty food for hearty people!
Serves 4 people
8 sausages
Two large onions (one white, one red)
3 medium size sweet potatoes (or two large ones)
2 large carrots
2 large parsnips
Olive oil
Fresh rosemary and two bay leaves
Freshly ground salt and pepper and some mixed herbs
Method:
Peel and cut into 1 inch pieces the sweet potatoes, parsnips
and carrots, bring to the boil in a pan of salted water for about 10 minutes so they are still ‘whole’ and firm. Drain.
Peel and chop the onions into four quarters.
Pop sausages into a pan of boiling, lightly salted water. Simmer gently for ten minutes, cool slightly and remove the skins, but leave whole.
Place the sweet potatoes, carrots, parsnips and onions into an ovenproof dish. Pour a little olive oil over the top, add the seasoning and herbs, mix lightly with your hands.
Cook at 200ºC in the centre of the oven. After 10 minutes add the sausages and cook for a further 35-40 minutes (turn the sausages half-way through the cooking time) until everything is golden brown.
Note: Simmering the sausages first enhances their flavour – you will be surprised at the difference it makes!
Serve:
1) Delicious with a hunk of crusty granary bread and a home-made tomato sauce on the side, or
2) Serve with cauliflower cheese for a hearty meal, or
3) Serve it in a large Yorkshire pudding and top with red wine gravy
Whichever way you serve it, this really is winter comfort eating!
Sharing a meal with friends and loved ones is special; meals are for sitting around a table enjoying good food and good conversation. It’s about laughter and love – whether you are in a restaurant or at home.
What do you drink with this hearty dish?
I suppose my love of food and the social element is exactly why I wrote The Restaurant @ The Mill. The building featured in the story is a composite of two mills I have visited and between them they combined to create the perfect setting.
The owners, Hilary and Ben, met up because of their professional aspirations. A perfect partnership, as Ben is an exquisite and talented chef, whilst Hilary’s management as the charismatic front of house and incredibly efficient ‘mâitre d’‘, sets their restaurant apart.
Add in the fact that they were both tired of the hustle and bustle of London … and the rolling farmland and greenery of Gloucestershire beckoned. They both fell in love with the old mill the moment they stepped out of the car and looked up at the wonderful old building.
But what makes the restaurant come alive are the diners. It IS Ben and Hilary’s story, but as the lives of some of their guests unfold the picture begins to open up. What links them all isn’t JUST The Restaurant @ The Mill, but life – love in all its forms; happiness, sadness and hope … It’s a snapshot over time – autumn to autumn. The diners vary from the newly-weds to those in their twilight years; they come from all backgrounds. But lurking beneath the surface of their lives is a melting pot of emotion …
Follow the series – it runs for 8 weeks, until 27 Dec, 2013, and I can promise you some very tempting and easy to cook recipes to ward off those chilly days. I’ll also be pulling them together into a free downloadable document you can save on your desktop and refer back to or print out. Perfect for those family meals around the table on a wintry evening!
http://smarturl.it/InLovewithLoveBk3
There are more recipes to come – and the Winter Warmer recipe booklet will be available to download or print out, here on 2 February, 2014!