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Nigel Slater - Pasta with Spicy Sausage, Basil & Mustard





Pasta with Spicy Sausage, Basil & Mustard
Recipe Book: Nigel Slater's Real Food Buy the book here 
Review: This recipe had a slight disaster but I think I recovered it well by improvising. 
This is how it started, I placed my Asda shopping order on Sunday as usual and it was due to arrive today between 2-4pm. I thought myself VERY lucky (pride comes before a fall...) because Asda do a Finest range of Pork and Chilli sausages (I don't have an Italian Deli near me, so I figured these would be the best substitute - also my local butchers is shut on Mondays). 
The shopping arrived and lo and behold! What item do you think they didn't have in stock...yep, you guessed it...the pork and chilli sausages! They sent me Cumberland as the substitute. Oh no! What do I do? No time to go out and find another alternative...oh well, never mind I'll just empty the sausage meat out as per recipe and mix it with 1.5tsp of Peperonicino (Chilli) powder, I mean Peperonicino is Italian so it should be ok. 
It seemed to cook just fine and made as per recipe instructions, so pretty quick and easy there. I also decided to use my favorite chilli penne pasta, well, just because...
So, how did it turn out? Was it spicy? Yes. Was I getting a sweat on whilst eating it? Yes. Did the husband love it? Yes. Did I love it? Yes!
All in all, from a disaster came a decent meal. I will attempt to re make this in a few weeks with the correct ingredients though and update this review based on that attempt.
Aga conversion: I mainly used the hot plates for this recipe 
Will I make this again? Absolutely!




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