SAUSAGE AND SALAD

Tonight I had dinner at home. I had sausage and salad. I didn't cook the dinner. Why sausage you may ask. Well, when I started out for novena this morning I had intended to have a home-grilled steak. Then I went to Borders to look for the last two books in a fantasy series. As I am prone to, I lost track of time when I am in a book shop. By the time I surfaced, it was past 5 pm. So I took the train back to Novena Square to get my car. There is a Cold Storage supermarket in Novena Square. So I went in to look for the steak, then I spotted the sausages in the delicatessen. They were so tempting and I succumbed, especially since I thought that maybe it was a bit late to prepare the steak.

I always have a fondness for sausages - English, German, Italian, Middle Eastern, Chinese, Taiwanese. In fact, I think most countries have some sort of sausage. But maybe not India; never heard of an Indian sausage. I will Google to confirm sometime. My love affair with the sausage began back in the long gone days I was in the Singapore Armed Forces. I was sent to England for training and stayed for almost a year in a Royal Air Force officers' mess. Once a week, sausage and black mushrooms was a menu choice for breakfast in the dinning hall. After the first time, I had it whenever it was a choice. Those were the days, man.

So I bought two grilled sausage, a package of prepared salad and a carton of pure promegranate mangosteen juice from the Cold Storage. When dinner time came I heated the sausages in the microwave and ate them with the salad, chasing them down with the juice.

One of the sausages was a bratwurst, a spicy German pork sausage with sun-dried tomato; the other was a Mediterranean jumbo sausage, also pork, I think. Both the sausages were firm to the bite, grilled just right - cooked, not over done. The hint of sun- dried tomato in the bratwurst gave it that bit of oomph. The jumbo was just pepperish. And the salad was just a salad with crotons. Overall a satisfying meal. Yum. It had everything I need - protein, fat, carbohydrates, veggies and vitamins. Except something is missing - company. Sigh.