I could do with some ideas, I bought some excellent dry cured sausages at a French Market at the weekend, they are made from Wild Boar, a dryed herby one and a duck and something !!? They are all lovely as an antipasti with olives etc but what else can i do with them? Also how long will they keep, and finally should they be kept in the fridge? Regards to all Sue.

Well Sue. I like it as is and it is good to keep it in the fridge it will keep for longer than you will leave it there for months into years depending on what it is exactly.

Try using it in cooking where you use lardons, ham, bacon and so on. For example: Make the classic French sauce base of onion carrot celary and use chopped sausage and go from there. Use this as a base to strong meaty casseroles.

Mince it and add to lighter meats for meatballs etc.

Cut it into small muth size pieces open a bottle of cold white wine and serve to a couple of friends around 6 in the evening or just when they arrive for dinner and before you start.

Hi Martino, You certainly know your sausages! Thankyou for the suggestions I am going to have great fun experimenting.
At this moment in time the cold white wine and tasty pieces cut into mouth sized delicious bites sounds just about perfect, can't wait to get home.
PS I'm glad to hear that they last for such a long time, as the market only comes once a year!! Chow x Sue.

At home around Christmas we buy a whole leg of cured meat along with dried sausages. Thy go on for ever but do need to be stored correctly. The reason why it is so popular is it was a way of keeping meat for the whole year in fact it is hung out for months to dry in the first place.

A great cheese to go with that and your wine of course is mouth size bites of Parmesan but even Tescos finest is not very good so you would need your farmers market or a good deli to try it.

Hope you enjoy.

Ciao

Our french market is in darlo for 3 days next weekend. it comes around 3 times a year and is very popular, what with that and a very good farmers market every 3rd friday of the month and the indoor market everyday, we do allright up here for northeners.