March 13th, 2010
At Costco this morning, we bought some more Aidells chicken and apple sausages. We get them a lot. They are delicious ¬†and ¬†I thought I might try the Gruyere cheese and roasted garlic sausages too by Aidells. ¬†I had a sample taste even though I had already picked up the double package. ¬†They are very tasty. I looked at the sausages being offered and noticed that the look of the sausage wasn’t as cooked or burnt looking as the way I cooked them. Perhaps I was cooking them for ¬†too long.
When we got home and as we normally do after a Costco shopping trip, Adam  took the sausages out of their wrapping and packed 4 sausages each into a zip lock bag for the freezer. This is great but I have realized that I never see the original packaging and how Aidells suggests that the sausages should be cooked.
Oh dear.  Those poor sausages. I have been beating them up in the oven for way too long. I have been cooking them for nearly 45 minutes until the skin is almost burnt. I have been treating the already cooked sausages as if they were regular sausages fried on the stove in a frying pan.  It turns out that these sausages only need 8 Р10 minutes max on the stove or baked in the oven. I feel terrible about my past treatment of the Aidells sausage and did them justice this time by cooking them for 10 minutes only.
When I served dinner they looked almost anaemic though compared to how we are used to eating them but at least they were easier to cut into. It was always such an effort!
Anyhow, here is the retrieved wrapping that I managed to dig up from the trash can.
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January 29th, 2010
This evening I thought I would cook Adam a nice dinner. He got in late from work yesterday and his dinner did not resemble a dinner once he took it out of the oven and left it on the side while he decided to go and read stories with Leo. By the time he got to it I couldn’t believe he was still going to eat it. He battled his way through one of now chewy, hard, dry, spicy sausage and mac and cheese which wasn’t too bad. He gave up the battle with the other sausage and threw it away.
Adam got home at a decent time tonight. The kids were eating left over mac and cheese with vegetables. On the stove top was my delicious curry simmering nicely.
Adam had big breakfast meeting downtown with the rest of his team but thought he would have his usual cereal breakfast not wanting to rely on fruit and croissants until lunchtime. I hadn’t realized they would be out of the office all day. ¬†I wish he had told me.
When he came in I had to mention to him that his dinner was waiting for him on the stove. Adam took the lid off and I thought I saw a ‘Oh no, I’m not hungry’, look on his face. He said it wasn’t but I am sure it was. He said he had been fed all day. He grazed at the constant platters of foods that were on offer, in the hotel conference room. He wasn’t hungry in the slightest. I sighed. I had actually made the effort to cook a nice meal, one that he would normally like but not tonight. He said he might have a little but I told him not to force himself. I said I would freeze it for another night. He felt bad. I felt a little disappointed.
Later on this evening, I put the curry in a tupperware container. The funny thing is I didn’t even fancy eating curry tonight. I did it just for Adam.
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