I made sausage rolls! yay! what do I do with sausage rolls?

[wahwahwah]

Made on a whim...

They seem like buffet or picnic food to me. How can I discuise them as a meal for DS?

Chips and beans. I can't imagine eating them with anything else

Mash and Beans - yum!

ahhh beans. I hadn't considered beans. DS does fart a lot. Am I asking for trouble or shall I go the whole hog and serve with cabbage and Tizer?

NO CABBAGE! don't ruin a perfectly good guilty meal with cabbage!

Tizer though, definitely.

What's wrong with cabbage? I like cabbage. And Brussel Sprouts.

Your son will remember the day you fed him sausages, beans and cabbage. He'll save the memory and let it fester, and one day years from now, he'll have his revenge - you won't know what it will be until it happens.

I'd be shaking in my boots by now if I were you!

Goodness me.

Sausage rolls should be consumed by your DS while perambulating along a public highway while imbibing a fruit shoot - don't yer know!

(Disclaimer: not a lot of sleep was had last night and the above opinion may not accurately reflect that of the poster!)

I made the bloody things with my own fair hands! They aren't Gregs you know, they are terrible posh Morningside type ones, with egg-wash, and parsley.

Oooh get you

Post some up here then - mine always end up as more meat and separate pastry...

I just had one (to make sure they were ok) and it was lovely! yum yum yum. Lots and lots of pastry. I am sure they will be wasted on DS.

What sausage meat did you use?

I made some yesterday with posh Duchy originals sausagemeat and I don't think they turned out that nice.

Quorn! Yummy yummy yum. Just had the last one for lunch.

That doesn't sound like proper sausage to me!

I've never used Quorn for that sort of thing. Do you use a minced sort?

It is it is it is!

I use the sausages (not the mince - that's for spagbol). The omnivore DS prefers these to real meat ones. You can cook the quorn ones then warp them in rolled out bread dough for a healthier version of sausage rolls. Very nice to picnics.

I love love love homemade sausage rolls. Last time I made them I also made my own flaky pastry

Next time though I will remember to make about 100 and freeze some, rather than make about 25 which get eaten before they're even cold...

It was lazy flaky pastry, btw

What's lazy flaky pastry?

This has reminded me - was walking to school with DS2 (who loves making up random songs)... he started singing (to the tune of 'heads, shoulders, knees & toes'...) 'My daddy he is kind, he is kind, my daddy he is kind, he is kind, and my mum makes the bestest sausage rolls.....'

AIBU to be slightly offended? And of DH?

"lazy flaky pastry"
The Delia Smith recipe with frozen butter grated into the flour? That is very good.

Kind he may be, but you make the bestest sausage rolls. In my book that wins hands down!

It's a Delia recipe - can't remember amounts off hand, but you basically get a packet of butter and freeze it for a couple of hours. Then when you make the pastry, you hold the butter with tin foil over your hand (so it doesn't start to melt) and grate the butter into the flour, rather then rubbing it in. The 'blobs' of butter make the pastry flaky, but without the usual hassle. Worked really well and was very yummy.

He he thanks wah - I agree!

I make mine with ready made puff pastry, and high meat content chipolatas. Atm I also add mustard and parmesan, but often fiddle about with the contents. Then i put an egg wash on them and cook for 20 mins. They dont last long enough to consider as part of dinner, as the kids snaffle them all up, as well as the bf, but ds2 often takes them into school as a snack.

I use a mixture of sausage meat, pork, bacon, lemon and orange zest, fresh herbs (which rather depends on what I have ) all blended together. With ready made puff pastry, but will definitely be trying the grated butter flaky pastry -great tip! And they never last very long - I serve them as nibbles with drinks and they're always bloody gone before I can pig out! (which is probably just as well )Adults definitely like sausage rolls more than they admit

Mmm, that sounds tasty, mrsmellow.

I might have a go at Quorn, OP. The few times I've tasted it I thought it was horrible, but I've probably not tried sausages. Is there a skin? Do you take it off?

If you make sausage rolls with normal sausages do you take the pastry off first?

DS ate 3 of the sausage rolls I made which counts as A Raging Success given his

I've promised myself that one day I'll try the Delia pastry. Along with making crumpets, tortillas, pittas and all the other million things that I probably won't ever get round to.