Finally, The Basic Always Welcome Saturday Lunch for 8

Sausages and mash have to be the most gratefully received lunch ever. For the mash, work on 200g potato per person adding lots of butter, lots of cream, lots of pepper; as for the sausages, I exhort you not to be seduced by interesting-sounding combinations. I always regret falling for the wild boar and ginger, the venison and mint sausages: sausages should be just sausages. I do, though, buy my butcher’s Cumberland sausages, now that he makes individual ones, not just the yard-long spiralled link. A reliable choice is something that goes by the name of breakfast sausage, English pork sausage or farmhouse sausage. In the supermarket, look for Porkinson’s.