Bangers, Mash & Onion Gravy

Bit of a blurry picture I'm afraid courtesy of the darker evenings. The Linda McCartney bangers, lovely creamy mash and the best onion gravy in the world ( I think!) went down very well with my brother on Sunday night.

Bangers, Sweet Potato Mash & Onion Gravy

On Wednesday I used up the rest of the boiled new potatoes and baked sweet potato as mashed potato and added our usual Linda McCartney sausages, carrots, peas and the wonderful Anna's Onion Gravy. 

Bangers, Mash and Onion Gravy with Runner Beans

Why are we eating mashed potato and onion gravy on one of the warmest days so far this summer? Because we had potatoes to eat. Who cares! It's awesome. Had some nice runner beans from a colleague's neighbour too.

Bangers, Mash and The Best Onion Gravy in the World

Thankfully Linda McCartney bangers, mash (made with soya milk and sunflower spread), peas and the famous Anna's onion gravy are all dairy free. I realise that this isn't the typical kind of meal for July but the weather wasn't much like July weather either and Mr VST and I have to have this about once a month or we experience withdrawal symptoms! 

Bangers, Mash, Broad Beans and Onion Gravy

This speaks for itself really. The onion gravy was as lovely as ever. We had it with some broad beans from my colleague's garden too, delicious. 

Bangers, Mash and Onion Gravy

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

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. 

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.

Bangers, Mash, Onion Gravy and Braised Cabbage

I love, love, love this gravy and the braised cabbage. Real hearty comfort food at the end of a long week.

Bangers and Mash

I cooked for us this evening for the first time in what feels like ages! I made good old bangers and mash with onion gravy and served it with carrots and the last of the braised cabbage from the freezer.

Bangers, Mash, Onion Gravy, Braised Cabbage and Peas

A Sunday evening feast! Absolutely delicious of course and much needed after my weekend of making an baking. My back is still aching from standing all day! My goodies look (and taste) pretty good though, I'm pleased with them. I'll post about my baileys and white chocolate and dark choc, orange and rum fudge and my cinnamon mince pies when I can.

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.

Bangers and Mash

Tonight's dinner was another classic (I must find a more imaginative term!) Linda McCartney sausages, mashed potato, peas and Anna's onion gravy (recipe on the cottage smallholder blog in links).

You can see from the photo that the gravy really is the main part of the meal!

We now eat this with a knife, fork and spoon. Mr VST licks the plate behind my back. He says that the day he doesn't lick the plate I'll know I've made a bad batch - it hasn't happened yet!



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