Sausage with red lentils

Most of the second Kosovan sausage was taken this lunch time, with the short stump probably destined to beef up what was left over.

Same general idea as last time, as reported at reference 1, but passing on the tomato ketchup. So started with a clove of garlic, then a couple of onions, then some of the fine big Co-op vine-grown tomatoes picked up from the Costcutter along the road, along with a Monday Guardian. With the Costcutter now having quite a pile of Guardians at lunchtime, rather than the one or two it used to have: maybe Horton Hill really is being gentrified. With the point of the Monday qualification being that it is not usually a good day for the Guardian and there is usually a lot of what might be called woke padding. The thinking man's version of the sort of stuff to be found in the red tops.

While the tomatoes etc are cooking, boil up 4oz red lentils in a pint and a half of water. About half an hour before the off, add the lentils to the tomatoes etc and continue to simmer. After a while, with the lid half off, as things were looking a little wet. Maybe just a pint of water next time. Towards the end, add the peeled and coarsely sliced suxhuk, aka sausage.

In parallel, prepare and cook brown rice and the other half of the crinkly cabbage.

Better than the tomato ketchup version, dearer to the extent that the ketchup was maybe half the price of the tomatoes. I guess the ketchup can be produced close to the point of production, thus saving transport costs. And being bottled means none of the bother of perishables.

PS: the woke padding turned out to include trends in selections for Desert Island Discs, the Spanish kiss continued, the leak of some probably very boring papers from somewhere in the Palace of Westminster, the hot weather, epidemics among our sea birds, the 'Neighbours' retread from Amazon, the escape of Sir Mo from the sports pages and too many of the wrong sort of flags at the last night of the Proms. This last being something I have never attended, never watched on television. Not my bag at all.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2023/09/sausage-sans-pork.html.