Toad in the Hole

This evening's supper was made at Mr VST's request. Not just the main itself but the way in which it was to be done. Starting off a week of eating batter, he requested Toad in the Hole (I am going to get fed up of typing this so TITH it will be from now on). Not just TITH but a big TITH. I usually make mini ones as as seen here but a big one was requested and I went about upsizing the recipe. I still used Delia's batter recipe but doubled it and I used the very reliable Anna's Onion Gravy Recipe and served it with braised red cabbage and mashed potato.

This was the giant TITH when it just came out of the oven. I thought it looked spectacular. I served it up with all the accompaniments and it seems that Mr VST had been thinking even deeper about the toad. In his mind he had envisaged the sausages being cut in half, lengthways and spread out across the top. What he doesn't know is that there would be no place for the burnt halves of the sausages to hide if I did that!

Anyway, all was truly delicious. A proper end to a Sunday.

Toad in the hole

Surely there isn't anything better than Yorkshire pudding?  I am more of a Jamie than a Delia in the kitchen but I use Delia's Yorkshire pudding recipe and it works every time. To make my mini toad in the holes I make Delia's batter and use her hot oven technique (using olive oil instead of beef dripping), I grill some Linda McCartney sausages and then cut them in half, and put them in with the batter in a Yorkshire tin.

I served them with mashed potato, Anna's onion gravy, some carrots and broccoli.

For pudding this evening it was my Mum's chocolate pudding floating in it's own sauce. I made this over the weekend and we had some of what was left this evening.