Bangers, Mash and Onion Gravy

Sunday evening classic last night. The onion gravy was SOOOO good!

Cauliflower Cheese Grills

My Mum always kept a good stash of veggie food in the freezer for me when I was a teenager and I used to love cauliflower cheese grills. We were at the in-laws for dinner last night and we had these as well as veggie sausages, broccoli, Cornish new potatoes and beetroot. To start we had home made tomato and lentil soup, it is so good! Made with tinned tomatoes and red split lentils all whizzed up together. It appeals to my sweet tooth as it is quite sweet in flavour. For pudding we had raspberry pavlova ice cream and shortbread biscuits - Yum!

Bangers, Mash and Baked Beans

Can I start by saying that the macaroni cheese with leeks worked and that I successfully completed the Great West Run today - Whoop! Thirteen and 1/10th of a mile in 2 hours, 9 minutes and 16 seconds. Having given a lot of thought to what I wanted to eat before the run it didn't occur to me that I might want to plan something for afterwards as well.

When we eventually got out of the car park and got home Mr VST and I finished off the macaroni cheese. For dinner I decided that I would stick with the easy to cook, easy to eat,  nursery food theme and went for bangers and mash with baked beans.

Bangers, Mash, Onion Gravy and Veggies

On Monday night I had the family over for dinner. I went for an easy and delicious option - bangers (Linda McCartney's of course), mash, Anna's onion gravy, broccoli, braised red cabbage and carrots.

It went down well with everyone and then we tucked into a lemon meringue pie from Marks and Spencer for pudding. 

Sweet Potato Mash, Veggie Sausage and Broccoli

A quick banger and mash yesterday with instant veggie gravy, not quite as good as the onion gravy but the mash was good.

Leftovers

The few days after Christmas have become a delicious blur of leftovers. We went visiting and had lunch with Mr VST's Auntie, Uncle, Cousin, her partner and their 10 week old baby and had a delicious vegetarian cottage pie with brussel sprouts and broccoli. For desert we had a chocolatey almond thing which was nice and then some proper home made mince pies and Christmas cake.

Back with my family we had some veggie sausages and bubble and squeaks followed by the left over trifle and Return to the Black Forest (I can never get enough of this stuff!)