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Grilled Sausages, with Tomatoes, Shallots and Onions French Potato salad, leftover

Cooking time:   30 minutes for menu Cooking schedule: see below for "menu"  instructions

Grilled Sausages with Tomatoes, Shallots and Onions      Time: 30 minutes

6 - 8 sausages - depending on size and appetite.  Get any variety that appeals.  I normally fix
          8 but they are quite skinny - less then 3/4 lb total weight, and I get Duck & Olive, Chicken
          Provençal, Pork & Walnut, Fines Herbes, ...you get the picture.
2 - 3 shallots
1 medium - large onion
1 cup cherry or grape tomatoes or the rest from Friday
1 tbs olive oil

Peel onion and slice thickly (either vertically or horizontally - tastes the same and, in my humble opinion, looks the same after cooking).  Peel the shallots and cut in half.  Put olive oil in large bowl, add all onion and shallots.  Toss well to coat.  Put into 'grill pan' (a metal or foil pan dedicated to use on the grill) NOT a mesh grill pan.  Cook over medium heat 25 minutes.  Cut tomatoes in half and add to shallots and onion.  Stir to combine and cook another 5 - 8 minutes.  About 10 minutes into veg cooking time put the sausages on the grill (allow more time if they are fat).  Grill until done.  Whichever gets done first just move to the side off of the main heat and finish up.  Remove all and serve.

OR:  Put onions and shallots onto a baking sheet with a lip (my trusty 'pizza' pan) and roast in 400F (200C) oven for 25 minutes, adding the tomatoes for the last 10 minutes.  You can either add sausages after 10 minutes or sauté sausages in large nonstick skillet, browning well on all sides, then cover and continue cooking until done 4 - 8 minutes longer, depending on size (cut one open and look - shouldn't be pink).

OR: Sauté onions and shallots and do the sausages on the grill ....enough with the options, you get the picture.

I like to have 2 or 3 different, flavored mustards with this, mon mari is a ketchup guy.

French Potato Salad, leftover                                        Time: 5 minutes

leftover French Potato Salad

Remove from fridge and let warm up a bit.  Serve.

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Cooking schedule: 30 minutes Assemble all ingredients and utensils Turn on/light barbecue grill if using - or oven Peel and cut onion and shallots Toss with oil and start to cook Remove potato salad from fridge Cut tomatoes in half Mind the onions

Stand around for a bit Start to cook sausages Stir the potato salad Add tomatoes to onion/shallot, stir Mind the sausages Remove onions and shallots, stir well Fuss a bit Serve. Eat

 

 

 

 

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