Sausages are for life, not just for Christmas

I fear that, because of the way it was marketed, the glory of this recipe has been slightly overlooked. Having first presented itself to me on Nigel Slater’s 12 Tastes of Christmas programme last year, declaring to be an alternative to pigs in blankets (a stupid thing to suggest because obviously we all know there is no alternative to those badboys) and something to pass around at a party, I thought Hey this might be a grown up thing to try out.
Original recipe can be found here: http://www.nigelslater.com/Archive_view.asp?nArchive_ID={A82EB504-361C-416B-8150-253F894952BB}

Upon cooking it however, I realised this was no party food. I would not be sharing this with lingering guests who never know what to do with the cocktail stick post sausage consumption. And I would not be eating it only at Christmas. The rise in cocktail sausage and cranberry sales outside of the Christmas period in my local supermarket most definitely have been caused by my obsession.

The reason this party food has turned into a full on meal for me is essentially because of my intense love of red onions, I can’t get enough of them. Ergo, I slightly bastardized Nigel’s ‘sticky glaze’ version by upping the red onion quantity significantly. Two small red onions may have become 4-5 obscenely giant ones. But by doing so, the dish turns into some kind of insanely quick hot chutney with the added benefit of meat already incorporated. I truly cannot think of anything better.


A sufficient amount

Red onions, sausages (no need to get silly small ones, we’re big boys now), cranberry jelly and cranberries - it really is shockingly easy to make, almost to the point of laziness.

You can eat whatever you want with it, most of the time for me it's with a salad; a continuation on the zero effort meal front. BUT by golly if you want ruddy* deliciousness in a bowl, add some crumbled stilton to it. Seriously, the creamy saltiness goes so well with the sticky, sharp and sweet cranberry sausages, it’s amazing. Do it.


Necessary stilton lurking in the background

*Note on usage of ruddy: I have decided for the sake of potential future employers that I should make a concerted effort not to swear on this blog. Unsure how long that’ll last.