sausage-stuffed potatoes + a green salad
I don’t think I need to tell you that sometimes the tastiest food is not the prettiest. Take a real close look at meat sauce, or shiny, oily cheese draped over tuna or a ground up olive paste and you’ll know why it may be tasty, but it’s not pretty. Meanwhile, I am wary of too-pretty food; perfectly smoothed fondant lids on cakes, making them look like rubber, overly glazed tartlets that look like they’re cellophaned.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 13 of 16 ingredients — the other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 13 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Pork | 100g cooked | 242 |
| Anchovy | 100g | 210 |
| Potato | 1 medium (173g) baked | 161 |
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Egg | 1 large egg (50g) | 78 |
| Onion | 1 medium (110g) | 44 |
| Tomato | 1 medium (123g) | 22 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| Arugula | 1 cup (20g) | 5 |
| Mustard | 1 tsp (5g) yellow | 3 |
| Parsley | 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) | 1 |
| Water | not in our table | 0 |
| Salad | not in our table | 0 |
| Sauce | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 2 large russet (baking) potatoes (preferably organic; 3/4 pound each, scrubbed
- 3 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon plus 1/2 teaspoon water, divided
- 3/4 teaspoon tomato paste
- 1/2 teaspoon anchovy paste
- 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard, divided
- 1/2 medium onion, finely chopped
- 1 tablespoon olive oil plus additional for coating potatoes
- 1/2 slice firm white sandwich bread
- 1 tablespoon milk
- 1/2 pound bulk breakfast sausage (1 cup) or 1/2 pound of breakfast sausage, casings removed
- 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- 5 cups salad greens (2 ounces)(we used arugula, which paired with the dijon sauce was deliciously kicky)