Darrell Cooks Like A Ninja?!?!

Darrell has a brand new aide culinaire ………

….. to wit a Ninja air fryer!

However, despite his initial excitement and bravado after being persuaded by Hugh, his best friend and mentor of all things of an air fried type nature, to avail himself of one, when it eventually arrived he was nervous, very, nervous, Richter Scale nervous in fact.

So, his decided, after reading the instructions and starter recipe leaflet at least one hundred times, that he’d best start simple, i.e with a humble Tesco thick pork and caramelised onion sausage.  What is he like?

Let’s just say the tension that rendered The Towers in the 10 minutes it took for them to cook, waiting for the ping, was robustly tangible and palpable, before Darrell was able to plate them up for Nigel’s and my experimental delectation.

They tasted “alright”, perhaps a little dryer and less greaser than if he’d put them in the oven, but then I think that was the whole point of the fryer, plus I think they were quite posh sausages, and perhaps needed a cheeky spray of oil to help them along, but what do I know?  We also thought that the skins might have been  a bit crisper, but for his first time, Darrell dun pretty good.

He now says, he thinks, that with our next Greek Odyssey looming, there’s a recipe for Greek potatoes in the aforementioned recipe leaflet, so perhaps he will give it a whirl to get our juices flowing for the real thing ……… once he gets his culinary nerve back!