Reddings Market Grilled Sausage and Pasta

Dear Julia,

Darling Husband was reading though Edible East End on the north ferry heading toward Shelter Island, and noticed the article on the new meat market. Right on the harbor on Bridge Street, the market has cheese, meat, prepared foods, and lots of other stuff. He bought the pork sausage, asking for sweet Italian, but getting cheese, which we noticed when we started the BBQ to grill it for dinner. DH remembered -- I'm trying to keep my cheese intake low.

Dinner
Grilled Shelter Island Pork Sausage
Garden garlic flowers and parsley pasta
August tomatoes and basil salad
Sang Lee sliced turnip appetizer
Julia's mustard vinagrette on Sang Lee Boston lettuce

The first time I remember hearing the word "translucent" was on a warm August night, at dinner in the screened in porch with my parents and older brother and sister. We had planted a little vegetable garden behind the garage. My mother had picked a golf ball size turnip, and she had cut it thinly, as an appetizer, which we kids did not touch. (They were going to eat this RAW?) But my dad and mom loved the "sweet" "peppery" and "fresh" flavor of the white disks, and held them up to the waning light marveling in their glowing transcluency.

Tonight ours were translucent, fresh, and sweet, a little low on the peppery. The sausage was superb, pork with sage, and puts supermarket sausage to shame. Very tasty.

Costs:
$10.00 for the Redding sausage, but we ate only half.
Cheese, tomato from Wickham's Farmstand about $2
Pasta, garden herbs, 50cents
Turnip from Sang Lee's csa 50cents
Total: $8

At the end of the month I will total up our monthly receipts, as I want to track what we spend on local food.

Julia, you would have loved those translucent turnips!

Bon Appetit,

Slow Juila