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Chipolata sausage cassoulet & garlic bread {recipe}

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I am always trying new recipes that give old ideas and ingredients new life. If you have the same old meals on the menu every week you become bored so it’s always nice to have something exciting and different. When you hear the ingredient sausages you instantly think of bangers and mash or a sausage sizzle and while these are delicious comfort foods, this chipolata sausage cassoulet recipe with parmesan cheese garlic bread is to die for!

 Chipolata Sausage Cassoulet recipe

Ingredients

500g chipolata sausages (can be pork, beef, lamb)
4x bacon rashers, sliced
1x brown onion, sliced
1x tbs crushed garlic
1x tsp finely chopped parsley and/or rosemary
1x 400g can cannelloni beans
1x 400g can diced tomatoes

Instructions

1. Halve sausages on diagonal. Brown them in pan.
2. Add sliced onion, garlic, herbs. Mix through and fry until sausages are almost cooked through.
3. Add cannelloni beans, tin tomatoes and 1/4 cup of water. Mix through salt, pepper and 1 tsp of sugar. *Sugar stops tomato going bitter during the cooking process.
4. Reduce liquid on simmer heat.

Parmesan cheese garlic bread

Ingredients:

Ciabatta loaf, sliced
Butter
Garlic, crushed
Parmesan cheese, shaved
Parsley, finely chopped

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 180°C
2. Mix butter, garlic and parsley together.
3. Brush one side of ciabatta bread slice with butter mix and top with parmesan cheese.
4. Put in oven until cheese is browned and crunchy.

ENJOY!

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What is your favourite sausage meal? Do you enjoy sausage stews like this one?

Meal Plan Week 39 – 2014

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This week we have enjoyed a lot of chicken, mainly because it takes minimal effort to make something hearty and full of flavour. But also because it was on special and you can’t complain with saving a few dollars.

Last week I shared my homemade chunky steak pie recipe (just click the link if you want to check it  out); it’s so easy to make and tastes amazing! Anyway I will get onto Meal Plan Week 39 – 2014 now so scroll down a little for this weeks menu.

Meal Plan Week 39 – 2014

Week commencing (22/09/2014)

Monday: Chicken Caesar salad

Tuesday: Paella

Wednesday: Spaghetti Bolognese

Thursday: Chicken noodle soup with bread rolls

Friday: Chicken stroganoff on rice with side vegetable

Saturday: Chicken kebabs with mash and salad

Sunday: Chicken curry pasta and vegetables

 

This weeks menu (Meal Plan week 39 – 2014) is full of quick and easy but delicious dinner ideas. We have had a very busy week and needed simple and filling meals to get us through. Most of these meals are budget friendly as well which is always welcomed.

What have you got planned this week for dinner? Was there anything in my menu that caught your eye?

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Homemade chunky steak pie {recipe}

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If you enjoy delicious homemade tender steak pie than you will want to print this recipe out to try later! It is my own personal recipe that I whipped up one day when we had a whole lot of nothing left in the fridge. I can vouch this will become a favourite in your home once you’ve made it as it is simple, budget friendly and very tasty.

Homemade chunky steak pie

Ingredients:
1x onion – diced
2kg blade steak – diced
4x bacon rashers
2x tablespoons crushed garlic
small amount of oil – to fry off ingredients above
200ml condensed tomato soup
600ml brown onion gravy (I used gravox)
Puff pastry

Instructions:
1. Fry off onion, garlic and bacon.
2. Add chopped steak and brown.
3. Turn heat to low and add gravy and tomato soup.
4. Cook/braise until meat is tender (a few hours usually).
5. Grease oven-proof dish/pie pan and place pastry inside.
6. Stab pastry with fork a few times (prevents pastry puffing too much while cooking) and then add meat filling.
7. Place pastry on top as lid. Fold corners together and brush with egg.
8. Cook in oven at 180°c until pastry is puffed and golden.

ENJOY your delicious home-made steak pie! 

If you want to see more recipes that I have shared on the blog check here or look in the food tab on the home page to search specific main ingredients. Make sure you come back and leave a comment telling me what you thought.

Meal Plan Week 38 – 2014

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This week I have had a sick little girl here this week along with the usual crazy schedule that I have. No big spiel this week but I did still want to share with you all the meal plan for this week ( Meal Plan Week 38 – 2014 ) and let you know that there are few pretty cool giveaways running. Winners for the closed competitions will be chosen very soon, as soon as I find a spare 30 minutes – I promise!

Meal Plan Week 38 – 2014

Week commencing (15/09/2014)

Monday: Wedges with bacon, cheese, sour cream and shallots. – So not healthy but so delicious!

Tuesday: Lasagne pasta with vegetables.

Wednesday: Baked teriyaki chicken legs with smashed potatoes and salad.

Thursday: Curry mince and vegetables on toast.

Friday: Hotdogs

Saturday: Savoury noodles with asian greens.

Sunday: Spaghetti and meatballs.

While not every thing in this weeks meal plan ( Meal Plan Week 38 – 2014 ) is healthy, it is fast and tasty. On busy and hectic weeks like this we need to have a few quick meals available and if we don’t have vegetables one night we ensure we do the next. Every week I will share with you the menu I prepare at home for my family and am more than happy to provide recipes, pictures and tips for any of them. If you are interested in  a specific recipe or even something entirely different I am more than happy to share some wonderful fail safe recipes that I have personally tried and tested. I’d love for you to leave some comments below if you liked something you saw or you have tried one of the ideas and would like to share your thoughts.

What have you got planned this week for dinner? Was there anything in my menu that caught your eye?

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Meal Plan Week 37 – 2014

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Not that I don’t love having a hectic schedule but I am so glad last week is over! Sometimes it is just nice to have a pleasantly slow week but they are beginning to feel like a distant memory here and I would love to have a taste of that again, soon. On another note totally unrelated; Father’s Day has now come and gone for another year and we are moving onto Christmas. Way to soon I might add. I saw Christmas trees set up in the shopping centre the other day was absolutely blown away, WAY TOO SOON!! Give me a minute to breathe already. Anyway that is enough out of me today, check out below for Meal Plan Week 37 – 2014.

Meal Plan Week 37 – 2014

Week commencing (8/09/2014)

Monday: Bacon and eggs with baked tomato and mushrooms.

Tuesday: Spiced grilled chicken, flavoured rice and vegetables.

Wednesday: Homemade sausage rolls, mashed potato and beans.

Thursday: Taco and tortilla night.

Friday: Grilled chicken, roast potatoes and bruschetta.

Saturday: Slow cooked beef stroganoff on rice.

Sunday: Cottage pie and vegetables.

I hope you have been inspired by this weeks meal plan( Meal Plan Week 37 – 2014 ). Every week I will share with you our menu and am more than happy to provide recipes, pictures and tips for any of them. If you would like a specific recipe for something entirely different I can also assist as my chef background and expertise has scored me some wonderful fail safe recipes that I’d love to share with you all. I’d love for you to leave some comments below if you liked something you saw or you have tried one of the ideas and would like to share your thoughts.

What have you got planned this week for dinner? Was there anything in my menu that caught your eye?

Check back each week for the new meal plan.

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