Instead of barbecue sausages in the park, let’s make the weekend family lunch creative, fun, and luxurious. Thus, it can be spent cooking with teenagers.

Google: “A sausage is a type of meat product usually made from ground meat—often pork, beef, or poultry—along with salt, spices, and other flavourings. Other ingredients, such as grains or breadcrumbs, may be included. The most common varieties marketed as ‘Italian sausage’ in supermarkets are hot, sweet, and mild. In Australia, a variety of mild salsiccia fresca (literally meaning ‘fresh sausage’) seasoned primarily with fennel is sold as ‘Italian sausage’.”

“Berries taste great, are highly nutritious, and provide many health benefits, including for your heart and skin. Berries are a great source of antioxidants. In addition to protecting your cells, these plant compounds may reduce disease risk. Berries may improve your blood sugar and insulin levels. Berries contain fiber, which may increase feelings of fullness, as well as reduce appetite and the number of calories your body absorbs from mixed meals.”

Had a friend’s teenagers over with me. I am teaching them to cook, be independent, and creating interests for them to experiment with the varieties of food that they can cook, eat, and enjoy at home rather than eating out all the junk food.

The 13-year-old boy helps with setting the table in the backyard, cutting mushrooms and buttering the bread, and washing up. The picture above is made by a 14-year-old girl. Both teenagers can’t take chili, so there’s no sauce and they don’t like walnut kernels. I am glad that they are willing to learn to cook. The lunch looks colourful, healthy, and delicious. Let’s get your teenagers to cook on the weekend!!!

Ingredients

125 g blueberries, wash and dry
80 g mushrooms, sliced
1 small lettuce, leaves, wash and dry
9 strawberries, wash and dry
6 slices of bread
6 sausages
butter, plus extra to spread on bread
oil

Method

Bring sausages out to room temperature. Once thawed, slit with a knife all around the sausages. Now heat up a saucepan on medium-high, add 1 Tbs butter and let it melt for about 1 minute, then add oil. Once hot, place sausages in and cook, turning all around until cooked and slightly crispy brown. Remove to a paper-lined plate.

Spread some butter over the bread slices and place them diagonally on each plate. Next, place 2 lettuce leaves diagonally on each slice of bread, followed by mushrooms and sausages. My plate has got to have chili sauce.

Garnish 2 strawberries on opposite corners of the plate and 1 in the middle. Place blueberries opposite the middle. Enjoy my brunch with a friend’s teenagers in the backyard in the sun with orange juice.

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