Sausage & Bean Bake

When I was a kid, my parents bought me these “Family Circle Kids Cookbooks”. They were teh awesome. As a child, I really enjoyed cooking. In fact, I still love it today… but I wasn’t always half decent at it.

Many Sunday mornings I would wake up my parents with “breakfast in bed”. The meal consisted of an entire 2 litre milk bottle emptied into a big bowl, plonking in a handful of grapes and then a tablespoon of margarine. Voila! A masterpiece. I was always saddened to hear that mum and dad were “too full” or “had already ate”.

I suspiciously wondered how they could still be full when it was now morning, yet dinner was a full 12 hours ago. I think I wasted about 10 litres of milk over a number of weeks before I got the point. “Mummy doesn’t like milk, grapes and margarine, Andy” (actually it was in German, so it was something like: “Mumie mag Milch, Trauben und margerine, Andy nicht” heh).

Anyway… so I got some cookbooks for Christmas and birthday’s and what-not. I still have them today – and use them about once a month to cook up some old favourites from when I was younger (not the grape & margarine stew though!). Actually, one of the cookbooks was looking a bit shabby – bits of food here and there, a few pages torn – but when I went to the Lifeline Bookfest about a year ago – I found a near-new copy of it, so I bought it again so now I have a newish copy. Sweet! But, I digress.

Last night, I decided to make the good old ‘Sausage & Bean bake’ – healthy and tastes great. My BF gave it a 7 out of 10; here are some photos, but feel free to grab the binocs if you want to read the recipe – cause there’s a photo of that here, too! Heh. Enjoy (we did!)

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