What do you serve with these please?

[BelligerentGhoul]

Looking for inspiration here, if anybody has any spare.

What do you eat with the following -

macaroni cheese

goulash

sausage casserole

pasta pesto

lasagne

to make them into complete, delicious and nutritional meals? :)

sausage casserole = Usually mashed potatoes and veg cooked in the casserole.

lasagne = lots of nice green salad and some crusty bread.

Goulash we have with rice. That and lasagne I try to make sure there's ebough veg in to balance it (peppers and tomatoes, mostly)

Pesto pasta - I'll quite often chuck in a chicken breast and some cherry tomatoes.

Don't know about macaroni or sausage casseroles - not part of my repertoire!

macaroni with a green veg

goulash with rice and a green veg

sausage casserole with frozen peas, and also mash if there are no spuds in it

pasta pesto as it is - extra cheese on top and fruit for pudding

lasagne with salad

goulash with rice.

lasagne, pasta pesto - usually put enough veg into them (and maybe either chicken or tuna for the pesto) to make a complete meal - onion, courgette, pepper, carrots, even broccoli (hmm, my spell check says that is how to spell broccoli - doesn't look right to me!)on occasion - whatever is in the fridge, really.

sausage casserole - surely a one pot meal? put potatoes and veg in it. maybe some bread on the side.

macaroni cheese - also a complete meal. add tuna, if protein desired. cuold also add eg cauliflower to make beefed up cauliflower cheese.

macaroni cheese with salad and maybe garlic pizza bread.

goulash we also have with rice

sausage casserole we have with mash and a green veg

pasta pesto I add chicken

lasagne with salad and sometimes either garlic bread or potato wedges, but I always put extra veg in the lasagne too.

macaroni cheese - put in frozen veg, my dc like peas

goulash - I put in a large amount of red peppers about half an hour before it is finished cooking. serve with poatoe or pasta

sausage casserole - lentils or beans

pasta pesto- does not really need anything, maybe plenty of grana padana

lasagne - layer with plenty of veg and maybe chicken/fish

oulash with rice - great. See, I would never have thought of that and we always have it with baked potatoes. Do you do anything special to the rice? We're veggie, so there's always plenty of vege in my goulash but I'm never averse to more vege on the side!

Macaroni cheese - we always have this with a salad with a mustard dressing but looking for other ideas.

Pasta pesto - never know how to vege this up. Fruit for pudding is a good idea.

Lasagne - we always have salad and garlic bread.

Not sure about mash with sausage casserole tbh - doesn't it go a bit slimey tasting? Again, we normally have baked potatoes with it.

G

just plain basmati
if the goiulash is tasy enough it shouldn't need anything doing to it

my saus casserole doesn't make mash slimy - you have to make quite dry mash (not too much milk) so it soaks up the gravy.

go easy on garlic breafd with the lasagne - easy to forget there's pasta in it and overload on carbs.

macaroni cheese - garlic bread

goulash- dont eat

sausage casserole - dont eat

pasta pesto- prob just cheeser tbh

lasagne - lots of salad and nice bread

Yes - am concerned about the double carbs thing but dp seems to believe that pasta must be eaten with garlic bread!

Did wonder about doing buttered savoy and rye bread with goulash for a change too - what do you think?

honestly?
grim, sorry

we buy 'garlic slices' so only one each rather than whole butter-dripping baguette

Grim, why? Googling seems ot suggest eating goulash with noodles, which I can't get my head round tbh!

I often make garlic bread with mini naans or pittas, as I'm not fond of the ready made stuff.

because personally I like soft white bread to mop up casseroley gravy, not bricks dark rye

macaroni cheese - add some broccoli in or cauliflower to make it more of a pasta bake

goulash - rice/thick crusty bread

sausage casserole - potatoes in the casserole or mash/rice on the side

pasta pesto - cook some veg in with the pasta and mix together (e.g broccoli/sliced green beans or grill some red peppers, chop and stir in) plus some pancetta

lasagne - green veg (or include it in the mince) or salad

Aha - but our local organic deli does the most delicious light rye bread you can imagine. :) And I hate dipping my bread in sauces, so it would be on the side!

Liking the idea of grilled peppers with pasta pesto.

to veg up pasta pesto:

chop onion, dice courgette, pepper, whatever other veg you want.

fry these up while pasta is cooking.

then drain pasta, chuck into the veg mix, add soem creme fraiche and stir through. then add pesto and stir through.

cheese on top, job done

Sounds great, Silver Frog.

My dcs like broccoli and cauliflower with Lasagne its probably not the done thing but they like dipping it in the sauce and I'm not about to argue

Oh and I don't do macaroni cheese any more - I do cauliflower cheese with macaroni in it

macaroni cheese- Usually have this as a side dish but you can make it into a main all by it's self by chucking in some bacon bits and some veg like broccoli or a grated courgette and serve with a salad or maybe some peas and sweetcorn for the kids.

goulash-rice or cous cous with a salad, could serve as a side with fish or meat too.

sausage casserole- mash potatoes or mash root veg of some kind like carrot and swede or parsnip and some green veg or another.

pasta pesto- would prob chuck in some veg with the pasta like peas, sweetcorn or broccoli and have some roast chicken pieces or a kiev if meat were required. Nice as a side to a piece of baked fish.

lasagne- salad.

Thanks Ballpoint. We're veggie though, so no meat or fish. You have just reminded me how much I adore mashed swede though and the weather out there looks like it will v soon be time for mashed swede!

Haven't read all the replies so sorry if I repeat any!

macaroni cheese: Salad (lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, carrot sticks, radishes); tomato balsamic red onion salad; Garlic bread; broccoli; Baked beans (don't judge me!)

goulash: Rice; baked potatoes and sour cream; broccoli and carrots; simple leafy salad; mash

sausage casserole: Mash; greens; butter bean mash; garlic bread

pasta pesto: peas; broccoli; grilled chicken mixed in sometimes

lasagne; almost always salad but sometimes garlic bread, sometimes green beans