I recently visited the north of Italy where i returned to the same restaurant in Stresa on Lake Maggiore three times . Their seasonal special, home made sausages with chestnuts and polenta, was so tasty I had it twice. I haven’t been able to find a recipe for that dish, but this dish from ” Rick Stein’s Food Heroes” is a good second best. If you cannot get hold of Luganega sausages in your local Italian deli then any Italian sausages flavoured with garlic and fennel will do.
A greek dish of pasta, meat, tomato and cheese . This version is from Corfu and can be found in Rick Stein’s ” Mediterranean Escapes”. Serve with a green salad, some crusty bread and a robust red wine if you do.
A Puglian dish of little fennel sausages stewed with waxy potatoes and lemon zest from Rick Stein’s ” Mediterranean Escapes”. If you cant get Luganega sausages ( try Italian delicatessans) then use meaty pork chipolatas and add a tsp of fennel seeds to the onions when you fry them.
A greek recipe for oven baked summer vegetables with dill which i found in Rick Stein’s ” Mediterranean Escapes”. This can be served as a vegetarian main course or to accompany meat or fish. It is also good served cold the next day.
This is from Rick Steins ” Coast to Coast”. The curried potatoes are only quite mildly spiced and he suggests serving this as a breakfast dish. You could always serve some Tomato Kasundi alongside.
A Portuguese influenced dish from chef Publis Silva who worked at the Mount Lavinia Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It’s published in Rick Stein’s ” Far Eastern Odyssey”.
