What veg do you think 'goes' with Toad in the Hole?

[JackBauer]

It doesn't matter what I cook to go with it, it just seems like an afterthough plonked on the side of the plate! (I can't cook veg mixed in as DH is too picky)

Mash and peas with lashings of onion gravy.

Cabbage is a nice option as well, as are Leeks, can combine the two shredded together.

Try mashing potato/ carrot/ sweet potatoe/ swede/ turnip for variation in colour/texture and taste.

Basically all wintery veg. Also like curly kale, red cabbage is a nice alternative and lends a bit of colour and add a few sultanas and it adds a nice sweetness. Yummy.

I have the answer to that but you are not going to like it [shivvering with fear emoticon]....

... I do not do any gravy

Green beans, broccoli and carrots. Probably with some lovely roast potatoes. Pretty much a roast dinner, only with Toad in the Hole instead of meat, IYSWIM.

I am the sort of cook who prepares meals from scratch, spends a lot of time in the kitchen, tries new recipes as well as keeping alive old childhood favourites I know a lot of people don't bother with anymore. I am also an Englishwoman through and through and yet I have to admit to something here: I have never once made toad in the hole and haven't eaten it since childhood.

Would one of you Toad experts care to post your recipe here or is there one in the recipe section? Is it really easy and will my children really like it? (I have never even made a Yorkshire pudding before - and would never ever buy them ready made before anyone mentions the name of Aunt Bessie - but my children seem to have come across Yorkshire puddings in school dinners as they were not phased by them recently when we ate out at a hotel).

It's not fair! I am starving and all I have to look foward to is some kind of super noodle delight which is currently "cooking" on my desk. It looks horrible and I WANT toad in the hole. The only upside I can see is that there can't possibly be any calories in my lunch.

Toad in hole easy peasy.

Make up batter: cop of flour in bowl. crack an egg in and mix it up a bit. Slowly add 1/2 pint milk beating as you go.

Put it to one side for hour or so.

Heat oven to quite hot. Add butter blob. Add sausages into toad in hole dish. Sizzle in oven for 10 mins. Pour batter over. Cook for 30 minutes ish.

ta-da!

we normally have broccoli/cauliflower cheese with ours

Dumbledoor Go for Delia's recipe.

Yorkshire pudding is very very easy to make.

Yes use Delia's recipe, it is fantastic and gorgeous. But DO NOT use a pyrex or ceramic dish, only a metal one. Ours exploded

Weel turns out FIL hates onions as well, so we had baked beans with peas mixed in. Again.

well, I saw 'we', I had a salmon stirfry, but damn I wanted some of it!
I always cook the sausages fully for about half an hour in a roasting tin and then pour a thin layer of batter over using sausage fat and bang back in the oven for 15 mins, then the batter lifts the sausies up and goes all thin and crispt at the edge and gooey inside.

Thanks for all input, will keep in mind next time

(Also, I have never eaten a quorn sausage, was just trying to help)

toad in the hole and salad is just wrong, my DH would explode if I offered him that. He is a gravy freak!
Quiche and salad - lovely
but for toad in the hole, any root veg or peas fine with potato in some form.
Baked beans and peas mixed in makes me want to vomit right now!
Mushy peas also vomit worthy IMO

My toad in the hole recipe - you finely chop an onion and plop a bit of onion in with a little oil and cook the sausage for 10 minutes first and then add a pinch of mixed herbs to the batter mixture.

Oven needs to be really hot and don't go opening the door every 2 minutes to check on it as it lets all the hot air out!

Quorn sausages a very sensible low fat alternative especially if you don't want to cook an entirely different meal for yourself.

oh sorry meant to say I can't understand people who don't like onion! I put onion in everything, if someone told me they didn't like onion I'd be stumped! Once it's cooked it's really not a strong flavour, I can understand people picking it out a salad though as often it is over powering and the flavour stays with you all day.
Having said that I'm pregnant right now and crave cheese and onion sandwiches a lot! Lucky DH

Golden syrup. Or better still, maple syrup

I've just reclassified syrup as vegetable (it comes from trees)...

i was lured into making tith last night by this thread but badkitten's recipe didn't work for me, too gooey in the middle. will try delia next time.

and for ref peas, squeaky beans and chard all cooked together (not something i'd usually do but messed up me timings) goes surprisingly well, esp when smothered in onion gravy.

tip: i whizz gravy smooth with a stick blender (no need to add flour in this case as the onion thickens it) and it's happily consumed by those who profess not to like onions

Braised cabbage and onion gravy (or if I can't be arsed, onion marmalade out of a jar).

I might try the quorn sausage version actually ... clumsymum, you have to try quorn sausages! I'm not a veggie but I love them. You don't have to think of it as a "fake meat" sausage - it's a different beast entirely. Just like banana nesquik never tasted anything like a banana, but has its own special flavour.

(Before I get flamed, please just ignore that nestle reference oh worthy MNers - I KNOW it's evil)

btw after lots of soggy failures (even Nigel's! tut)I have discovered the perfect recipe which is one I got for Yorkshire puddings out of an American cookbook:

1 cup milk
1 cup plain flour
pinch salt
2 eggs
1 tablespoon olive oil

(for a cup just use a normal, full-size tea mug)

Sift flour and salt, mix in beaten eggs, then gradually mix in the milk (don't put in milk all at once or you get lumps), then whisk in the oil. Put batter to chill in fridge, and whisk again just before you use it.

I put the sausages in the oven on their own first for 10 mins, in the tray in olive oil, at 250C to brown and heat up, then quickly get them out, pour the batter over and slap back in. Turn heat down to 200C and cook for about 40 mins.

Pumpkin (ideally roasted).