Chipotle Sausages + Salsa Verde, or “Not Quite Gumbo”
We had another bag full of peppers from the farm this week (and no one had even touched the bag from last week). Diana was taking a belly-dancing class, so I decided it was a perfect night for “Man Food.”
I took all the peppers, a spoonful of minced garlic, a few scallions (also farm-fresh), and a handful of grape tomatoes leftover from the weekend, and a bit of salt and tossed it all into the magic bullet. A few seconds and some shaking later, I had some home-made salsa verde.
I cooked some red beans & rice while I was working on the salsa (and by working I mean sipping a beer for 20 minutes and then pressing the blend button), then sauteed a pound or two of chipotle sausages in the salsa. I ate it in a bowl, with the salsified sausages over the red beans & rice. It was basically just like gumbo, only not quite as soupy and lacking the okra.
