Time is tight…

If you remember from this earlier post, my cousin in Brisbane, Australia sent me this pack of sausages, among a whole lot of other things…

…and it is due to expire soon – 31st March, 2015. I guess kept in the freezer, it is all right to stretch it a bit but as far as possible, I would like to finish them off as soon as possible.

I did cook some for everybody for breakfast…

…and I had some with my plate of instant mi goreng one morning.

Variety is the spice of life so of course, I would not be serving them the same way till they are all gone. There I was, cracking my head as to how I could serve the sausages…and one morning, I cooked this box of pasta…

…that I bought quite a while ago and it had been sitting in the pantry, expiring in May.

This was the breakfast platter I whipped up for my girl that morning…

…and she enjoyed it to the max.

I remember when she was small, I made what I called a “chicken in a blanket“. Basically, that was just chicken sausages wrapped in slices of bread and toasted in the oven. It certainly did the trick! She was amused by the name and enjoyed eating it. Unfortunately, while I was taking the pan out of the oven, my hand brushed the grill at the top and I suffered a severe burn, 2nd or 3rd degree, and that took months and months to heal and years before the scar became no longer visible. Sigh!!! The things parents go through for their kids. I did not know then that in fact, there are such things and different ways of making one’s own whatever in a blanket.

Since I had a lot of sausages at hand, I decided that I would use some for my own version of the so-called “piggies in a blanket“. It wasn’t anything fancy – just half a sausage on a bed of very thin tomato slices with a little bit of cheese to hold down the edges once it melted…

…and a toothpick stuck through it temporarily. I brushed it with a little bit of egg and put that in the oven.

Well, there were some egg and tomato left so I just fried an omelette with those…

…and had it with the piggies…

So, was it any good? Not really, I would say – nothing spectacular. I guess one can’t expect much – after all, basically, it was something like sausage and cheese with tomato on toast. For one thing, the sausage was salty and the added cheese made it worse…but it wasn’t too bad when eaten together with the lettuce and omelette.

At the time of writing, I only have five of the sausages left. Time is running out but I shouldn’t have any problem finishing them off soon…in one of the above ways for breakfast over the next few days.