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I write this post while the meal for the next days gets ready: to cut back on my (kitchen) work for the next days i made a very big pot of Cipollata, which gets better and better the more often it is reheated.

In case someone is interested, here is the recipe:

Cipollata (Italian-style sort-of stew with sausages)

You need (~4 persons, all the quantities and their proportions can be varied to suit your own tastes):

300g Bacon (in on piece, not sliced, should have some fat for the roasting)
500g carrots
500g champignon mushrooms
500g shallots
600g grill sausage ("Bratwurst"- or "chipolata"-type, but preferably small ones)
200g (pre-cooked) sweet chestnuts
a very big pot and about 3 hours time.

Cut the bacon into pins (5x5 mm wide and about 40-50 mm long) and roast it gently in the pot, only for a very short time. Then add the grill-sausage and continue to roast until the sausages attain some roasting-colour.

Cut the carrots into pieces ~2cm and put them in. Put a lid on the pot, reduce the heating and let that sit with the heating at a low level for ~20-30 minutes (stir every 2-3 minutes).

Peel the shallots and add them to the pot (usually in whole pieces, you might cut them in half, depending on their size). Let that again sit on low heating for another 20-30 minutes, stir every so often.

Clean the mushrooms, cut them in quarters and add them, let the whole cook on again, like before. Finally add the cooked and peeled chestnuts, continue the slow cooking to your liking. Ready.

You can serve the Cipollata with rice or potatoes or even with bread. Once it is ready you can set it aside, re-heat it the next day, and so on. It usually gets better when re-heated several times.

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