Italian sausages

[felt-tip]

does anywhere do proper Italian sausages around here?

I saw them at Tea Amore once but it has since shut down...?

Need to make a ragu. Thanks.

[Pickle]

Has Tea Amore shut down? I thought it was still open, just under a different name?

[DulwichFox]

Hi Felt-tip

Found this on Google

GG Sparkes

Great mobile shop on Northcross Road in East Dulwich.

Friendly, full traceability, proper butcher but with all organic or free range meats (unlike certain other 'organic' butchers in the area).

Great Italian sausage, lamb and chicken.

[felt-tip]

Pickle... I just saw the new name and presumed it had become something else. I will check it out and still if they still stock what I want.

DulwichFox - thanks for that. I've only seen them on a Saturday and I need the sausages for Tuesday, I should have said, but thanks anyway.

[HAL9000]

Apologies for hijacking the thread ? does anyone know a local source for French Andouille sausages?

[felt-tip]

hijack away HAL, any sausage chat is good chat in my books.

[EDKiwi]

Tea Amore has changed it's name to Gastronomica, still looks the same but maybe it has changed hands (haven't been in since it changed)? Not sure if it's related to Gastronomica in Borough Market or not.

Gastronomica?

[cate]

It's related to the one in Park Hall Road.

[womanofdulwich]

and half moon lane. I am sure it is the same.

[cate]

Yes, I forgot about that one. Had a chat with the guy in the Park Hall Road one and they decided to make everything easier by having one name. They will also be getting (if they haven't already done so) more deli stuff in like meat and cheese in the LL one.

[EDKiwi]

Sounds good, thanks for clearing that up Cate, I thought I had heard there were a few shops but got mixed up with the Borough market one.

[ontheedge]

There's the Scicilian butcher in Evelina Road who makes his own sausages he probably does them

[david_carnell]

ED Deli sell Italian sausages in the fridges on the right hand side as you go in. Regular and spicy varieties.

Rose's farmhouse sausage is my current sausage fave right now. Slow cooked in butter and oil in a frying pan with a lid till golden, sticky and caramelised. Takes at least 45mins. Any less and your heat is too high. Oven baking and grilling is blasphemy.

[Jah Lush]

I can't wait 45 minutes for a sausage. Jeez! You must have the patience of a saint David.

[david_carnell]

The only one with the patience of a saint, Jah, is the woman upstairs in bed waiting for them to be cooked. I can have a sneaky bit of toast and some coffee with newspapers whilst I wait!

Edit: To avoid domestic strife!

[Jah Lush]

Women? More than one woman in your bed David? You lucky swine.

[Marmora Man]

david_carnell Wrote:

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> ED Deli sell Italian sausages in the fridges on

> the right hand side as you go in. Regular and

> spicy varieties.

>

> Rose's farmhouse sausage is my current sausage

> fave right now. Slow cooked in butter and oil in a

> frying pan with a lid till golden, sticky and

> caramelised. Takes at least 45mins. Any less and

> your heat is too high. Oven baking and grilling is

> blasphemy.

Rose's farmhouse are a favourite in our house too but I speed up the cokking process by pouring boiling water over and simmering for 5 mins then cooking slowly for a further 10 mins on low heat frying pan - result v similar to D-C's (I believe) but with slightly less molten fat (boiled out), a more meaty texture and still the necessary caramelised coating.

[david_carnell]

Interesting MM - I shall have to attempt that next time. Part of me almost takes pleasure in the length of time it takes though. Seems more.....rewarding.

[Bellenden Belle]

The 45 minutes wait is definitely worth it....At the risk of a double entendre, I must say D-C's sausage sandwich has left me spoilt for all others.

And men - take note - those 45 minutes can be spent bringing your woman in bed a cup of coffee and the Weekend papers.

[karter]

How romantic, this lady waits in bed for her man to bring up some sausage.

Forget that sh!te. If you want Some. Proper. Italian. Meaty. Sausage. then go to Italia.

[felt-tip]

I will be stripping mine of their casing and cooking with onions, prosciutto and red wine. Once cooked will turn in some parsley and ricotta and served on a pile of fusili. The missus' fave.

[HAL9000]

I can't believe no one knows where to obtain French Andouille sausages locally.

[david_carnell]

There are the French guys selling salami and ham on North Cross Rd on Sat. They might be able to get it for you or know where you could obtain it.

[concita]

It is now called "La Gastronomia" If you need to buy Italian sausages, there is another shop in Lordship Lane selling them. I think it is the Dulwhich Deli, but I am not about the name. I know, however that they sell them and I have bought some from them last year for Xmas, I bought the Spiced chilli ones and they were delightful.

Otherwise you have to go around Victoria station where there is another shop called Gastronomia Italia making all the italian sausages (in Vauxhall Bridge Road).

Another place where you can find them is in Dulwich Village. There is a grocery shop selling continental foods.