tonight
I am using leftover sausages to go with pasta and veg. I want to try something different to the usual tomato-based sauce.

Anyone got any decent recipes? or even half-decent ones that I could spruce up?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 5 May 2009, 16:52, 15 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Er...
b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post414929

Try switching the tomatoes for a bbq-kinda-sauce.
( Cawl, Tue 5 May 2009, 16:53, Reply)

Cowboy Casserole - Close enough
Cowboy casserole is wonderful. When i mentioned it to my friend, he thought I meant something along the lines of a barbeque dish (i.e. wild west cowboy). It's actually more a description of how to make it! Chuck it all in!



Only key ingredient is sausages.



Recipe time!



At least 2 sausages per person
Beef Stock (1/2 cube per person)
Onion (Roughly 1 onion per person)
Pasta (as much as you like)
I recommend Lea & Perrins, but it's up to you
now here's the fun part...

(optional) red peppers, peas, green beans, baked beans. sweetcorn, anything like that - we went with red peppers, beans and sweetcorn, so i'll use them in the recipe



Preheat oven to about 180
Cook pasta, then leave on low until rest of recipe is ready
Fry the sausages in a fair amount of oil, just to brown them. Add half a diced onion for a couple of minutes, just to brown it.
Cut up the peppers & the rest of the onions roughly, and stick in the casserole dish with the sweetcorn.
Follow this up with the sausage, the fried onions and all the oil from the pan.
Drain pasta, and pour into dish
Pour boiling water into dish until it's about 1/2 centimetre about the food.
Then add the beans, this means the flavour sticks in the sauce, and doesn't just wrap around the pasta.
Season to your hearts desire! Lots and lots of pepper is required if you're doing a big dish. Stir thoroughly
Cook for about 30-40 minutes, stirring about every ten minutes.
Et voila! Dead easy to cook, and if it's done right, really really tasty!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 5 May 2009, 16:53, Reply)

the incredibly dull
creme fraiche based sauces?
(Psyche finishes work at the end of June! Yay!!!, Tue 5 May 2009, 16:54, Reply)

cream and peppercorns
drop of wine - colour to taste.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Tue 5 May 2009, 16:57, Reply)

I'd forgotten about the other sausage related post....
baz, that's the kind of thing I'm after.

might go the creme fraiche route, with peppercorns and wine

mmmm. salivating already
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 5 May 2009, 16:59, Reply)

Something with Mustard
MUSTARRRRRRRDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 5 May 2009, 17:00, Reply)

I'd go with a smokey, gooey, bbq-ey honey-mustard sauce.
The taste would be good, but rhythmically it's the best suggestion you'll ever get.
(TheColonel, Tue 5 May 2009, 17:03, Reply)

Do a Bechamel sauce
Plenty of cheddar, loads of wholegrain mustard.

Bake in the oven a la macroni cheese so you get that nice skin on top, should work well with sausages.
(username1, Tue 5 May 2009, 17:04, Reply)

Mrs V doesn't think she likes mustard,so probably not a good option
she thinks she doesn't like a few things, and I am gradually proving her wrong.

my only failures so far have been lobster and black pudding (not together, although I bet it is good) and I reckon I could get her to admit she likes lobster.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 5 May 2009, 17:06, Reply)

I'm thinking a combination
honey, creme fraiche, lots of pepper, wine, cooked with a load of veg, and sausages, add to pasta then grill the top to get a gooey cheesy crust
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 5 May 2009, 17:07, Reply)

Ooooh!
That reminds me...
Had a bbq with some mates on Sunday, and got a pack of black pudding.

Top of Bun.
BBQ Sauce.
Black Pudding Slice.
Burger.
Salad.
Bottom of Bun.

Amazing.
( Cawl, Tue 5 May 2009, 17:08, Reply)

Yep
Make up a white sauce with some milk (cream if you can afford it), cornflour to thicken, and water, then grate some cheese in, heat it until smooth goop and add to your pasta ... voila! A disgusting home-made alternative to store-bought cheesy pasta sauce.

Yes, I used to be a student. Can you tell?

EDIT: I forgot the egg. Add an egg. A little month-old milk will do in place of egg.
(hangableautobulb is an anagram of the best album ever, on, Tue 5 May 2009, 17:10, Reply)

Take your sausages.....
place them inbetween two slices of bread,
pour over a liberal helping of HP sauce (quantity depending on sausage quality),
man the f*ck up,
and eat.
(TheColonel, Tue 5 May 2009, 17:14, Reply)

One of my employees
gave a whole chili black pudding last week - it's stunning.

Not really all that hot but the flavour of the peppers really complements the rest of the sausage.

I've had it as part of a regulation fry up, but also crumbled into salad, along with wedges of hardboiled egg and black forest ham. A salad for chaps such as myself, who find salads on whole rather rubbish.

*drools*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 5 May 2009, 17:24, Reply)

Pesto...
And serve with a nice Pinot Grigio.

Was I too late?
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 5 May 2009, 18:50, Reply)