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sally_in_wales
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 09 6:16 pm Post subject: Review: Hazel Mclean sausages

Got our assortment pack of sausages from Hazel Mclean/Brownbear today and thought I'd start a thread for tasting notes as we work through them.

This is the pack of 12 assorted flavours, 4 sausages of each, which is a perfect size for the two of us and makes it very easy to plan meals around them. Despite a slight address hiccup (which we are blaming on the cat, no fault at all from the senders end), resulting in them spending an extra night in transit, they reached me in good shape, though the lovely savoury scent of garlic did have the security chap at work sniffing hungrily round the box when I rescued it from him

So, tonight we had the Cambridge sausages for tea, a really firm very meaty sausage with a definite nutmeg edge. Much denser to the bite than even the top end shop sausages, these were perfect with a nice fried freerange egg and some rather decadent fried bread. They would have been equally good with something a bit more refined, new potatoes and some nice steamed greens perhaps, but after a hard day wrangling visitors we both voted for a fry up and these sausages fitted the bill perfectly.

Will report back on the others as we get to them, these ones were yummy

lettucewoman

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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 09 10:23 pm Post subject:
only TWO sausages each??????? .........we usually have at least three and sometimes four

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 09 7:18 am Post subject:

lettucewoman wrote:

only TWO sausages each???????

.........we usually have at least three and sometimes four

normally so would we, but these were so solidly meaty, two was exactly the right amount. Hoping this continues through the rest of the varieties, as it will represent a saving compared to buying sausages 6 at a time

Effie

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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 09 8:16 am Post subject:
As someone who was kindly fed these last night for tea, I heartily agree on how good they are. I certainly had more than 2!

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 09 5:32 pm Post subject:
tonight, we are trying the Basque sausages, this time as part of a pasta dish, we've made a good basic tomato and garlic sauce, which will be poured over the pasta, and the cooked sausages sliced on top a bit like meatballs. Should be ready soon, and will report back on how it all tastes

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 09 6:02 pm Post subject:
ooh, those were nice. We reckon that particular recipe woud be good in a cassoulet, lots of nice comforting depth of flavour, coped well with the richness of tomates. yum

Brownbear

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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 09 6:19 pm Post subject:
We're both very pleased you like them. Hope you enjoy the others too.

chez

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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 09 6:35 pm Post subject:
I had more than two, too. The trick is to 'cook enough for the children' and then decide that the children need feeding before they are quite ready. They were ambrosial. If that is a word that can be applied to sausage.

Nick

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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 09 6:46 pm Post subject:
Rice puddingy?

chez

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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 09 6:51 pm Post subject:
Yes Nick. They are Rice Pudding Sausages.

Nick

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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 09 7:05 pm Post subject:
You make one comment about someone being a frootloop....

chez

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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 09 7:11 pm Post subject:
You've spelled fruitloop wrong

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 09 7:13 pm Post subject:
I shall be placing an order tomorrow. Can't quite be bothered with account set up at this precise moment in time... A.

jema
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 09 7:17 pm Post subject:
An order from here also shortly.

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Tue Aug 04, 09 7:18 pm Post subject:
I'll remind you if you remind me A.

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