Sausage & Bean Casserole ox

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As you can see by the the title I did a bit of cooking and decided to make another casserole. It's definitely the perfect meal for a freezing cold evening. It was also nice to try something new as I have never tried Cannellini Beans before.

Again I used a mix from Schwartz and this one was a slow cooker mix so I could cook it in the Slow Cooker.

All you need is:

400g Chopped Tomatoes

400g Cannellini Beans

2tbsp Tomatoe Puree

1 Onion

450g Pork Sausages

125ml Water

The first thing I did was put the Cannellini Beans into the Slow Cooker.

I then chopped up, while crying!, the onion and added that to the Slow Cooker.

While I did this I had 6 sausages in the fryer browning off and then added them to the Slow Cooker.

I then got a glass bowl and put the chopped tomatoes, tomatoe puree, water and Schwartz mix in and mixed it all together.

I then put it on Low for 8 hours to cook. I must say it smelt gorgeous whilst cooking. Once it was cooked I served it up in a bowl along with a bread roll.

It tasted delicious and the beans were lovely and I am normally so fussy when it comes to trying new things. I would definitely recommend this recipe for you to try if you like cooking.

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Baking Cookies ox

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On Saturday I decided to do a little baking as I haven't done any baking for a while. I got these Betty Crocker mixes over the Christmas period during our food shop. To be honest I have never used any other mix Betty Crocker is my favourite. 

I actually like to bake from scratch usually but cheated this time. All you need to make these is the mix and water. Each mix makes 8 cookies but as I had 2 I just mixed it altogether and made bigger ones.

First thing I did was pour the mix into a silver mixing bowl.

I then added 4 tbsp of water and mixed it altogether until I had a stiff dough.

I then rolled 9 little balls together in my hand, one at a time, and flattened them on a baking tray.

I then put them in the Oven for 30 minutes. I put the oven on 170 degrees as I have a fan assisted oven so didn't need to put it on higher.

The kitchen smelt gorgeous while they baked. After 30 minutes then I took them out and they looked gorgeous.

I then tasted them with a cup of tea and they were delicious, they weren't to hard or soft, they were just right. They do taste like vanilla, also they tasted quite sweet.

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Making A Roast Dinner

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Its Cooking Day!!!

 

On Monday we decided to have a cooked dinner as Llewellyn was in work on Sunday and doesn't finish until late, so being a good wife cooked dinner Monday. So I thought I would share with you how I did it :)

 

We had to go and get a chicken first as we didn't have one, some potatoes, a parsnip, some stuffing and some carrots.

 

So the first thing I did was wash the chicken out to make sure there was no bits inside and I did this by holding it under a hot tap. I then put it on an oven tray and started the stuffing, which being boxed stuffing all I had to do was tip the packet into a bowl and add boiling water :)

 

 

Then once I stirred it round and it was all sticking together shall we say, I then stuffed the chicken with it :) I must admit as lovely as it tastes I hate stuffing a chicken, I always feel like I am violating the chicken, Does anyone else feel like that or is it just me haha?

 

 

Once I had stuffed the chicken I then peeled and cut up some parsnip into strips for Llewellyn and also cut up a potatoe for Llewellyn to have roasted :)

 

 

I put the chicken into the oven on Gas Mark 4 and let it cook for the next two hours, checking on it every now and again to make sure it was cooked.

 

While it was cooking I prepared the rest of the vegetables. I peeled and cut up some potatoes and put them in some water with salt, though we did cheat with the carrots as we got a tin of carrots instead of fresh :( and put them in the same saucepan :)

 

 

The only thing with a cooked dinner is that it smells so nice when cooking and it takes ages so by the time its done I'm starving, though I do enjoy it a lot more that way.

 

So when it finally finished cooking I took the chicken out and just stood and smelled it for a while because it just smelled so nice :) Then after Llewellyn came and told me to stop sniffing it I took the stuffing out and carved the chicken, though Llewellyn said I butchered it ha ha

 

 

We then finished it off with a Yorkshire Pudding, home made gravy and mint sauce :)

 

 

I must say it was blooming lovely!! Especially as it had been such a cold day, it was nice to have a hot meal that tasted delicious!!

 

What veg do you guys have on your cooked dinner?

 

Is there a set day you have yours on?

 

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Cauliflower Cheese

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So today was cooking day, so decided to make me and Llewellyn a lovely fresh meal. Todays meal was Cauliflower Cheese.

 

I got the recipe off BBC Good Food and you can go to this recipe HERE

 

 

This meal is rather easy to make and all the ingredients you need is cauliflower, cheese, flour, butter, milk and whatever you're having with it, which we had chicken :)

 

Obviously firstly I cut up the cauliflower and put it in a saucepan with water and salt to boil until soft :) While that was happening I got on with doing the cheese sauce :)

 

 

So first off I melted up the butter then added the flour and then whisked it together :) it did amaze me in weird way how the butter and flour went once mixed together :)

 

 

Then I added the milk, you can by the amount in the recipe or you can put in as much as you think necessary, as it will go to a nice thickness when whisked with the flour and butter :)

 

 

Llewellyn grated the cheese as I had to keep whisking so it didn't burn and then added it in :) We added quite a lot of cheese as we like a strong taste of cheese, but you can put however much you like in :)

 

 

I then put the cauliflower into a ovenproof glass dish and poured the sauce over :) it smelt gorgeous and was making my stomach rumble :) I then added a bit of extra cheese on top and put it in the oven for half hour to bake :)

 

Overall this is a very quick and easy meal to make and absolutely delicious :)

 

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