Store cupboard challenge

kerleytops

Chop sausages, fry with onions. Mix with beans and season if necessary. Put in oven proof dish. Mash potatoes. Make up an amount of stuffing and mix in with mash and then use to top sausage mix. Heat in oven. Top with grated cheese if you have any.

JulieGeorgiana

Wrap sausages in flour (if you have any) and fry off.... sweat your onions, cook off the carrots, add the sausages, beans and tomatoes, diced potatoes. Add your seasoning simmer on the hob for half an hour to an hour until thick and lovely and the potatoes are cooked. Serve with stuffing if you want!

This is lovely with fresh HM rolls!

Penelope_Penguin

littlenicki wrote: »

I also have half a packet of stuffing (not sure how this could be incorporated?!)

Casserole as above, then make the stuffing into little balls and float them on top, like dumplings, for the last half hour of the cooking

the_cat

littlenicki wrote: »

. I also have half a packet of stuffing (not sure how this could be incorporated?!)

I would make sausage meatloaf as it would bulk out the sausages well, plus it needs stuffing for it

Shout if you want a recipie!

adelight

Do you have any spices like cumin?
Fry the sausages and onions in a little oil, add diced carrot, sweet potato, little water and seasoning and simmer for 5-10 mins, add toms. Put this in a casserole dish and top with the normal potato very thiny sliced. Put in the oven for half an hour (or simmer longer and pop under the grill for 10-15) and eat with stuffing!
Add the beans with the toms if you want, I just personally hate baked beans!!

Gigervamp

Some nice ideas. Here's another one!

You could make up the stuffing, squeeze the sausage meat out of the casings, mix with the stuffing and roll into balls. Brown off and pop in a dish. Chop onion and a couple of carrots and sweat in the pan you did the sausageballs in. Add those to the dish. Add some flour and a little butter to the pan to make a roux and pour on some stock to make a gravy. A little bit of tomato puree could be added too if you like. Season and add some herbs and spices. I like using sage and paprika.
Add gravy to the sausageballs and veg.
Make mash with both the sweet and normal potatoes and spread on top, then bung in the oven or half an hour or so.

caitybabes

They sound like the ingredients for one of my favourite dishes: sausage and bean chilli.

Fry the chopped onion and a few chopped carrots. Brown the sausages in the pan too. Add a selection of spices (plenty of chilli, plus cumin if you have it, garlic, paprika etc.). Add your tin of baked beans, chopped toms and if you have some honey put about a couple of tablespoons in. I would chop up some of those sweet potatoes and chuck them in too.

Bung it all in the oven for a couple of hours and enjoy - your house will smell delish!

Penelope_Penguin

What did you make OP - were any of the suggestions appealing to you

As this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the existing storecupboard challenge thread.

EmptyPurse

Yellow split peas - do they need soaking before use?

Likewise, Italian dried bean/lentil type mix - does it need soaking?

I've got both in the storecupboard; they've probably been there for the last year or so. I'm thinking about using them up in hearty soups as part of my personal storecupboard challenge but am not sure what to do with them. Any good soup recipe suggestions? Or any other good ideas, for that matter? The reason they've been there for so long is that I'm completely stuck for inspiration!

RAS

Given their age, I would soak the peas for an hour or so and soak the beans overnight.

Avoid adding salt or acid to either given they are old, until they have cooked down