Dill wouldn't have worked with everything else I was making. The same technique would certainly work with dill, but dill isn't the right herb for a dinner that involves gravy.
(Well... unless you're going Swedish, in which case everything else on the plate would have been seasoned differently.)
It is. This is one of the relatively few things I make exactly the way my mum did.
Re: the sage - dried sage will do, but you'll need a *lot* less. And I didn't mention salt and pepper, but they should both be used *sparingly*. This isn't good if it tastes salty.
If you cook it in a tin it'll take a bit longer. Or you can use it to stuff a chicken carcass. Either way, you want the internal temperature to reach at least 167F/75C.
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Cook the onions an hour before you want to make the stuffing, and let them cool. Then - about two parts sausagemeat to one part breadcrumbs. Chop the sage finely, and mix everything in a bowl. If you make stuffing balls, they take 30-40 minutes to cook at 180C/350F.
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It's one of those things where I don't really have a recipe, I just make it (the same way my mother and grandmother did). But - pork sausagemeat, breadcrumbs, fresh sage, onions cooked until soft but not brown (easiest way, about five minutes in the microwave), an egg to bind the mixture.
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On a white dinner plate, a roast chicken dinner. Clockwise from top: Slices of roast chicken. Roast potatoes. Roast parsnips. Carrots. Green beans. Stuffing balls. Gravy spooned over just about everything, but it's not drowning in gravy.
Many, many yellow stickers in Waitrose this afternoon. So, Friday night roast chicken dinner, and leftovers to last into next week:
In a nonstick sauté pan, large pieces of carrot that have been cooked very slowly with apple juice, thyme, and a tiny bit of butter
Fun with carrots:
On a nonstick sheet on a baking tray, twelve sage/onion/sausagemeat stuffing balls, about to go into the oven.
On a nonstick sheet on a baking tray, twelve sage/onion/sausagemeat stuffing balls, just out of the oven.
Balls.
"...here we have a man whose pick-me book on his journey to Catholicism... currently lies in the rectum of HarperCollins, ready to be excreted in June – yet inevitably, Vance is already giving menacing doctrinal advice to the pope as part of the multi-theatre fallout of Operation Epic Facepalm."
Cartoon by Ellis J. Rosen. A bearded male guru sits cross-legged on top of a mountain. On a mountaintop directly opposite him stands another bearded male guru, watching as a workman erects a large billboard which says "Coming Soon: Enlightenment AND Pizza By The Slice"
Today's inspirational message:
"Or is it just that, with Pompompurin’s Japanese fanbase widely considering his butthole to be an especially charming point of his appearance, the hole is somehow able to bend spacetime and always make itself visible to fans?"
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"I've gotten through racists and trolls and Piers Morgan,
Gee, that was fun and a half!
When you've been through racists and trolls and Piers Morgan,
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In which we learn that Mr. Pete Hegseth, the noted dipsomaniac and all-round twat, began a “prayer” by quoting a made-up biblical verse from the screenplay of - appropriately - Pulp Fiction.
I think what really makes this special is Emily Maitlis bursting out laughing after they show the clip:
Neko Case. There was apparently a workshop with Amanda Seyfried and Evan Rachel Wood; the stars at the Young Vic are going to be Rachel Tucker and Amy Lennox (I'm assuming Tucker as Louise and Lennox as Thelma).
"Netanyahu-ism has gained nothing, and it has come at a monstrously high price. Most obviously, in the lives of all those killed, whether in Rafah or the Bekaa valley or Israel itself. But it has also inflicted perhaps irreparable damage on Israel’s standing in the world."
Screenshot of the Young Vic website's page for their forthcoming musical adaptaton of 'Thelma and Louise'.
This is a thing that is apparently going to happen.
It's going to be fascinating to see how they stage the final scene in a space as small as the Young Vic.
Fuck.
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A fairly easy one:
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Cartoon by Asher Perlman. Two rabbits, sitting on a sofa, talking to a rabbit therapist. Caption: "We fuck like humans."
Today's inspirational message:
Headline from THE STAGE Maria Friedman to lead Kimberly Akimbo cast at Hampstead Theatre APR 16, 2026 12:04 BY GIVERNY MASSO Maria Friedman is to star in the title role in musical Kimberly Akimbo at Hampstead Theatre. The Tony award-winning show by Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire is making its European premiere at the north London venue from 28th August to 7th November.
Ooh.
(Yes I already have a ticket.)
Pure evil.
