By: Blonde Two
Well if the truth be known (and I am a very honest girl) it was more like seven o’clock than midnight, but down on the slip looking out to sea, it was very dark!
Poor old Mr B2 had barely been in the house after work for ten minutes when I dragged him back out of the door with the promise that ‘sausages on the beach will be fun!’
I had packed stove, gas, forks (thankfully not sporks), flask of tea, cups, scissors, sausages, bread & butter, sitter and a lighter. Can you work out what was missing?
No I didn’t either until we had assumed our positions on the slip, exclaimed over the splashing tide and assembled our wares. It was then that an ‘even more disgruntled than the second before’ Mr B2 noticed that I hadn’t brought a pan.
Now if there is something that a hungry man who needs his tea doesn’t want, it is the slowest method of cooking a sausage known to mankind. However, this was what I had unwittingly invented.
In the end, attaching one sausage at a time to a fork (sporks are not always the way forward) and holding it over the flame proved to be quite good fun. By the time we had finished though, we almost were cooking sausages at midnight!
Sausages must be cooked in the oven for half an hour to ensure:
a. they are cooked right through (I morbidly suspect frying does not achieve that).
b. the skins become all-round brown and crispy rather than pale on one side and burnt on the other, and above all, not chewy.
Please forgive me for quoting a favourite joke:
Mounty chasing criminal for days through wilderness. Camps. Decides to make himself a dry Martini. Criminal jumps out of bushes and yells, “no, no you don’t do it like that!”
Imagine if the Mounty had wanted a sweet Martini, what would the bears have said?
Cooking ’em with hot pebbles in a pit would be much slower!
Did you try splitting them down lengthways? But I bet they were yummy mixed with salt-sea air and a gallon of waxing moonlight anyway.
They were yummy especially as we were so hungry by the time we ate them. Splitting would have been a good idea!