Monday 1 October 2012

We're eating sausage toad

Here we were at Historic Lincoln Food & Craft Fair at the weekend.
That's the ancient courthouse within the Castle walls behind us; Lucettes Pancakes and Boston Sausage Company on the left and Angel Desserts on the right. Saturday was a glorious early autumn special - sunshine & breezy (and The Big Boss's Birthday - he loves a working holiday!). Sunday was a little more challenging with gusty breezes and sudden showers but we were undaunted! We were 'trying' out our new strategy which was always going to be exciting. We've finally admitted to ourselves that people come to Good Food events not to buy  good food but to admire it and then eat what they know. Which usually means Burgers!
Well! We don't do burgers. Which is to say, we can but we choose not to. We decided to do jumbo 'hot dogs' with spicey wedge tatoes served in our 'special' bamboo gondolas!  And a good job we did because people were definitely hungry for good food but, since they were mostly tourists, they were not into buying it to take home. The Big Boss had wisely invested in some super dooper non stick cooking pans (which yours truly has tested not-quite-to-destruction in the home kitchen) which happily churned out sausages and spicey wedges all day long. Shame the Chef got a little outpaced during the rush hour and over compensated on the second day (we are eating sausages for the county this week) but, nonetheless, it was a great success. And we love cooking good food. We shall doubtless add to the range. Visitors ate our food and then came back to buy stuff to take home -which was great.
We're eating sausage toad tonite (and sausage risotto tomorrow and sausage...? the next day) and we have a fledgeling new business model to digest as well.

PS: And today is the first day of the pheasant shooting season so certain members of the household  are getting jolly excited about the coming few months - Winter? Who cares???

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