Come and tell me what can I do with sausages.

[winnybella]

Don't want to do just sausages and mash.

Could I use them for pasta sauce? Or something.

Thanks.

My favourite is toad in the hole mmmmmm.
Yeah, you can use them for pasta sauce, take the meat out of them, mix with finely chopped onions and herbs and make meatballs.

I was stuck with some to use up at the weekend. Chop them up into quarters and do a tomatoe-y sauce to have with rice or pasta or whatever. I just used what was in the fridge which happened to be onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, chucked in a tin of chopped toms as well, some oregano. Never seen DD eat anything so fast

sausage casserole?

Sausage casserole with beans is nice.

Mmmmm...they all sound lovely.

Sausage casserole- do I just put some beans, cut-up sausages, tomatoes together?

here's one

there's a recipe for sausage casserole on MN recipes. I would recommend that you fry the sausages until cooked, though, and then add them to the casserole at the end to warm through, to avoid 'boiled' sausages, which imo aren't as nice as fried or roasted.

I love sausage pasta. I just cook them and then chop them up and have with a tomatoe and garlic sauce.

Sausage quiche?

There's a lovely Delia recipe for a sausage, apple, cider and juniper berry casserole. As I recall, you fry sliced onions, apple slices and some chopped bacon or pancetta and a few juniper berries if you can get them, stir in a tbsp of flour, then pour over some cider, then simmer for a while. Lovely with mash, and very autumnal.

We use this Nigel Slater recipe all the time, using whatever herbs we've got in though it's usually only dried.

this is a good one (thank you Nigel!)... I often put yoghurt in instead of double cream, so don't let that put you off.....

I did a lovely pork and lentil casserole thing on saturday (from Nigel Slater's real cooking cookbook). I very rarel cook with lentils but it was delicious.

Was basically pork belly (I used 2 big old chops as they were hanging around in the fridge), couple of slices of streaky bacon and sausages fried til golden; fry off onion and garlic, add back the meat and then add bay leaf, thyme, a small bit of parprika (as my sausages were just plain pork) plus ready cooked green lentils (from a tin) then some veg stock and pepper.

Throw it in the oven for an hour with the lid on; remove lid and reduce down if needed til nice and thick. Add squeeze of lemon juice and some chopped parsley.

You could easily leave out the pork belly and just use sausage although I think the bacon is a must-have.

It was utterly delicious and my mate was scrapping the casserole out to get every last drop.

God, it's all about St Nige today isn't it. He does love a good sausage

1. Sausage and lentils:

cut sausage into chunks and fry (if you have a bit of bacon so much the better), tip onto a plate.

fry some diced onion, carrot, celery, leek, mushrooms or any combination of the above in the same pan.

once veg are softened, add Puy-type lentils, stock cube, water and seasonings

simmer till lentils are al dente

stir in sausage chunks (and spinach or other greens if you have them)

2. Sausage and apple:

peel and chop a couple of apples and a bit of onion/shallot

fry sausages until browned (but not cooked)

turn down heat and add chopped onion and apple

put a lid on and leave till apple is soft and golden and sausages are cooked

if you wish: add cider and reduce down, and/or cream, to make more of a sauce. both lovely but not needed

(mash or baked potato good here)

Thank you all, will definitely be trying out those recipes.

I am ashamed to admit, though, that tonight I just eneded up grilling the sausages and then cutting them up and serving them with beans from tin .

DD refused to have a nap today and so was falling asleep v.early and I didn't have time to cook in the end.