Homestyle gourmet recipes: Afterparty Sausage Dog

I like to cook and my friends seem to like what I cook, so here are some recipes. I rarely measure anything so always use your head when following my lead.


First off, sausage dog. Nothing innately gourmet about this, but good ingredients will turn this into something special. I got the recipe from a guy with a cart outside Miyagi's nightclub at 2am.

2 Italian sausage
2 buns
onions
bell peppers
salt
pepper
mayo
mustard


I like the Van de Kamp's buns (Van Camp's? Van something). They are cheap and insubstantial, and yet they just seem to be the proper bun for the job. You could also go with a french roll. (Or is it French roll?)

Pork sausage is traditional, but it's just hard to beat the Trader Joe's chicken italian (Italian?) sausage and Sicilian chicken sausage, very fresh and yummy. But then there's the Polish deli down the street at 12th and Wilshire with ten kinds of keilbasa, that is the best possible sausage alternative.

Sautee some sliced onions and peppers in a little olive oil on high heat. A little char by the time they cook is tasty.

You can either bake the sausage or sautee it, then add the onions and peppers to the same pan to finish.

Spread some mayo and mustard, add salt and pepper, add the onions and peppers. Simple, yummy, but the high quality sausage and fresh sauteed onions and peppers make this fresh and satisfying.