Have you noticed that the weather has suddenly turned Arctic on us? No more sunny day picnics for us - autumn is properly here, and I've had to bust out the duffel coat and gloves for the first time since spring. But I can't be too sad about it - because the colder weather is the perfect excuse to make filling, warming, stodgy dishes....like toad in the hole. Yay!!!
Because it's a hearty, calorie-heavy dish, it is quite clearly a man's responsibility to cook toad in the hole. I sat at the kitchen table and enjoyed a glass of cider while I watched B work.
He makes a Yorkshire pudding batter following the classic Delia Smith recipe, and pours this around the sausages into a hot baking tin. The smell of this cooking in the oven is officially the most mouthwatering smell ever.
By the way, the sausages we used were from Waitrose and had apricot, ginger and thyme in them. I only bought them because they were reduced, but people, they rocked.
Sides were steamed broccoli (you've got to have some healthiness in there somewhere) and onion gravy.
It was a little bit of autumn heaven on a plate.
Pudding was some late British strawberries (Waitrose again, gah) which I marinated in lime, sugar and gin.
They balanced out the waistband-expanding first course perfectly. Come on autumn, I'm ready for you.
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