Tripolina Lunga with Smoked Turkey Sausage, Beans & Mascarpone2007-10-09 00:11:00
Let’s talk about starch, baby. Let’s talk about you and me. Let’s talk about all the good things and the bad things that beans can be. Let’s talk about starch. Well, something like that. One of my favourite things growing up was a simple bowl of beans and wieners, and if there was heavily buttered toast on the side so much the better. Beans and wieners, back then I couldn’t think of anything more perfectly balanced. The starchy beans, sweet tomato gravy and salty diced hot dogs, man, add buttery toast and you have another level of balance with crunchy and soft. Eve had the chance back in the day to take this to Adam, she chose the apple because it was easier to carry. To this day this is still a comfort meal “go-to”, definitely up there with process cheese open-face sandwiches. I find it funny that as a comfort staple it always involves the extra work of a special trip to the corner store because we don’t keep hot dogs or white sandwich bread in our pantry. It’s good