Cottage Pie

Minced Beef
3 carrots
1 1/2 onions
frozen peas
6 mushrooms (large cup)
2 beef oxo cubes
1 bottle dodgy welsh beer
4 bottles IPA
mixed herbs
worcestershire sauce
ketchup
sauce flour
6 spuds (Maris Piper)
Cheese
Parmesan

Chop onions, carrots, shrooms

Fry up onions for a bit. Add mince, fry till brown. Add carrots & shrooms. Fry a bit more.
Add a sprinking of flour (until it looks like Christmas), stir in.
Add oxo cubes dissolved in 1/2 pint boiling water. Add Welsh Beer. And Herbs.
Bring to boil.
Add peas. Keep boiling

Open IPA. Pour into pint glass. Enjoy.

Meanwhile, peel and cook up spuds. Once done (10 mins boiling) mash 'em, and add in cheeses. You might need some butter as well, or maybe some milk, or even some olive oil.

Once sauce nice and thick, spoon into pyrex dish, cover with mash and bake. Half an hour maybe? Until the potato browns nicley.

Chalk that one up to Experience

Not sure this worked - less vinegar and mustard and more something else and it would have been nice.

Frankfurter and Pasta.

4 Frankfurters. Not from a tin.
2 Handfulls of pasta
4 pieces of sun-dried tomato
1 actual tomato.
Parmesan Cheese
Mustard (1 tsp)
Ketchup (1 tblspn)
Olive Oil (1 tblespn)
White Wine vinegar (1 tblspn)
Spicy Italian seasoning

Cook up the pasta and the sausages. Chop the sausages & tomatoes into small bits.
Mix together the mustard, oil and vinegar. Add the herbs. Stir vigorously.

Once all cooked, put in a pan and stir together and serve. Cover with grated parmesan.

Serves 1.

Really Easy Spicy Sausage Pasta

A quick and easy pasta dish - easily scalable

2 sausages (at least 80% meat) per person
1/2 tin chopped tomatoes per person
dash Worcestershire sauce
A little double cream
Spicy Italian Seasoning (I used Schwartz)
Ketchup
Cooking oil
Handful of pasta (per person)
Parmesan

Cook the pasta according to instructions. The rest of the meal only takes about 15 mins, so this probably wants to be done first.

Remove the skins from the sausages, break into little pieces (fingers work well for the un-squeamish). Fry in a little oil until starting to brown.
Add Worcestershire sauce, then after about 10 secs, add the tomatoes, ketchup and seasoning
Cook up for a while until the sauce is thickening - need a moderate - hot heat.
Add the cream, about 5 mins before pasta ready, and cook down until sauce a nice consistency.

Serve with grated Parmesan.

Delicious!