Meatballs

The kitchen was a hive of activity last night. Meatballs were going on the hob made from pork and beef from the freezer for tomorrow night's post-hockey tea. The sauce has also been made and i've cooked my pasta for lunch tomorrow. I made a Nando's 'sauce' (soured cream and Nando's sauce, nothing too technical!) to go with it along with some salad and jalapenos. Just can't get enough of spicy things at the moment!

Dinner was delicious and, i'm sure, far too simple for something so tasty.

Sausage and Bean Casserole

6 good quality sausges, preferably flavoured (chili and coriander, toulouse...etc)
1 tin of plum tomatoes
1 tin of haricot beans
1 onion
1 garlic clove
1/2 teaspoon fennel, crushed
pinch of salt and pepper
pinch of soft brown sugar
a couple of dashes of tabasco (optional!)

Preheat oven to 150 celcius and brown off the sausages in an oven proof pan. Add the chopped onion and crushed garlic and allow to cook off a bit with the sausages. Then pour in the tomatoes and beans with the fennel, salt, pepper, sugar and tabasco. Place in the oven, with a lid on, and leave for 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours...overall, the cooking time can be quite flexible to what you need it to be.

A lot of the flavour will come from the sausages which is why it's important to get decent ones and, if you choose to, a flavour that you will like to have in your dish!