Three-course sausage and beer menu, $35; five courses, $45.
The result is a fine side dish, and now I've started using the same principle to build a main course, with sausage and mushrooms.
It blends broccoli, Cheez Whiz and, or course, Polish sausage.
Hitting a bull's-eye at the beginning of the meal were a special of oysters Rockefeller napped with Mornay sauce and a bit of spinach, and the menu's polenta appetizer, which was hearty enough for a main course with its sausage slices, mushrooms, tomatoes and Marsala sauce.
There will be live music, a photo booth, and of course, bobbing for sausage.
How else to explain our choice of main courses: smoked salmon sausage with apple sauerkraut, and Thai green seafood curry with cashews?
"Certo, puoi mettere le salsicce nelle polpette, cara," she said – of course you can put sausage in meatballs, dear – turning to the butcher who was wrapping the meat in red and white paper, and then to the couple behind her, herding people into the discussion.
Our main course was a rabbit sausage wrapped in bacon, or as he calls it "Rabbit in a Pig Blanket".
I didn't have the heart to tell Dario, but I'd taken a one-day sausage-making course at New York University.
I Porchettoni serves a few pasta dishes – hearty portions in massive plastic bowls – and carnivorous second courses like meatballs or sausage.
It is not uncommon to order a half-dozen dishes in one sitting from as many culinary influences, which might include mezze, or appetizer dishes, of puréed dips with walnuts and hot peppers and main courses of soujouk (peppery sausage) and kibbeh (minced lamb).
