• Nigel Slater's recipes for sausages and beans, and panna cotta with blood orange

    1 month ago - By The Guardian

    A hearty meal of baked sausages with a mash of beans and spinach, followed by an elegant set cream with winter fruits It was the sort of winter night when only sausages would do, and I came home with both my favourite butcher's variety and a packet of plump Italian ones - coarse textured and seasoned with fennel seeds and dried chilli. I cooked the lot slowly, so that their skins were glossy and sticky as Marmite. For want of potatoes - which I forgot to pick up at the grocer's- I crushed white haricot beans with a bunch of steamed spinach leaves and turned them into a mound of fluffy...
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