To say I'm doing sausage and mash but serve...

[maddiemookins16mum]

this monster (I was encouraged by another thread MN, PLEASE don't delete me, it's the best I've ever made, it's not really a TAAT).

We have steamed carrots and cabbage and boiled spuds to go with it. Plus, instamatic gravy (as called in this house, sorry).

Ha ha - i was typing on my phone re the flour/flower that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it

Zuzu - it would depend on how tightly coiled the sausage was maybe? If it didn't uncurl a bit then you'd just have a sausage in the middle with no hole peeking through? also it would take longer to cook since the surface area of sausage to hot oveny air would be less?

However, now that I know that you are from The Land The Macaroni Pie, I know you aren't carbohydrate aversive Especially when it's been battered and deep fried and served with chips! :o Would putting it on a roll be too much?

Lovely. 5 pounds of fat and carbs. Yum.

and yes, I forgot the salt and pepper in my "recipe" . i once did that in real life and thought I would just sprinkle salt on top as i put it in the oven - that didn't end well... :(

hmmm spiral sausage hole....now that might make me try again

Looks rubbish.

YABFU

You should have served it with mash too, go all out. Bangers in the mash hole. Fuck people's healthy vegan organic grass fed mushrooms, GET THE CARBS

Ooooo just needs onion white sauce poured lumpily over the top. Hope you added some mustard power to the batter too - delicious.

I could polish half of that off no problem right NOW.

Hats off, OP.

Im so hungry

Delia's one does me. The gravy is amazing. www.deliaonline.com/recipes/international/european/british/toad-in-the-hole

DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT use a pyrex container. Metal only. I've exploded two, and no, I don't know what came over me the second time. but it's really difficult to clean splattered cooked yorkshire pudding batter out of the nooks and crannies of an oven.

I notice Delia recommends "roasted onion jus".

Jus????

JUS??????????????

FFS Delia - It's GRAVY!

Delia's hands give me the creeps so it puts me off using her recipes. her fingers are very sausagey :(

When I make toad in the hole it rises round the outside but is flat as a pancake in the middle. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong!

Yours looks magnificent. I’m very jealous

I know, but really, the recipe is amazing. The jusgravy used to be on the same page but it's not any more.

Waxon, I feel the same about Mary Berry's hands. Always look like she is wearing another pair of hands as gloves. So odd....

I think Mary had Polio or something and one of her hands is a bit twisted. I can deal with that better than Delia's pork sausage fingers. Apologies Delia if you are reading, it's nothing personal

Congratulations OP - what a thing of beauty. I've laid my table and just waiting for you to deliver it to my door - piping hot, of course. I've put the veg on

Ooh, this is exactly what I was imagining.
And you're right, *WaxOn", it seems to work ok as long as you uncurl your sausage in the middle (not a phrase I use often ).

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/catherine-wheel-toad-hole-honey-mustard-onions

You're naughty, though: how is calling St. Delia of Norwich's hands "pork sausage fingers" not personal?
You better atone, or she'll curse your batter never to rise or something...

Forgot pic.

You better atone, or she'll curse your batter never to rise or something...

S'okay - i don't use her recipe and I'm sure she isn't omnipotent :o

Oh. you'd need to cut that in slices like a pizza - How I'd love to walk into work with a slice of that in my lunch box.

We are off Toad in the Hole at the moment as DH isn't doing carbs and DS2 is on a diet that he doesn't know about :(

I'm now thinking of maybe doing teeny individual versions with bacon wrapped chipolatas in them for Christmas Dinner - that's now patented by the way....

You are too late Waxon - we had this in this house for many years when the kids were little - Wee Willie Winkie sausages* wrapped n bacon and in an individual small pudding - (they used to scoff about 12 each!).

I can recommend them - they are delicious and very cute!

*Can you still get these? Haven't seen them in the shops for yonks!

Lovely bit of toad! This was the last one I made. Linda McCartney sausages. I use Felicity Cloake's 'perfect' recipe from the Guardian, but veggie-fied.

We had them every Sunday* - in our poverty days, T-i-t=H served as a Sunday dinner many a week.

*Autocorrect changed this to "thievery Sunday" - but I caught it for once Mwhahahahahaha!

I think wee willie winkies had about a 5% meat content - not sure if you can still buy them....I usually get sainsbos taste the difference ones :)