Homemade Sausage Rolls

Now this isn’t the healthiest of meals but I like doing better variations of bad foods because the man of the house lives for junk. I also want this blog to be a true reflection of me and my family life.

Most of the cooking I do is with the “help” of a toddler. Even though it takes way longer and we make a huge mess it’s one of her favourite things to do and now that we’ve added photography, her other favourite thing she couldn’t be happier. 

This is such a basic recipe and is entirely customisable, they’re great with cheese, bacon, more/different veggies, herbs, anything you want.

So, before I keep blabbing, this is how you do it.

You only need 5 ingredients; puff pastry, sausage meat (or mince if you’d prefer), carrot, egg and garlic.

Grate the carrots and crush the garlic and mix all ingredients together, this is the reason I hate making these cause the only way to mix them properly is to get your hands in there, kids are normally a blessing here cause they’ll love to help. But alas, my child inherited my aversion to being dirty so she used a spoon.

Once it’s all mixed in wash your hands really well and lay out the pastry sheets, put the mixture onto the pastry.

And then all that’s left to do is roll them up and poke a few holes in the top for decoration, or let your toddler destroy them with a fork, like so.

Then you just need some eggwash to brown the tops and throw them in the oven for 20 minutes.

Sausage Rolls

Prep: 10mins               Cook: 25 mins                    

Makes:24

Ingredients:

•    5 sheets of puff pastry
• 2 carrots
•  2 cloves garlic
•  1 roll sausage meat
• 1 egg, more for wash

Method:

1. Grate carrot and crush garlic
2. Hand mix all ingredients (except pastry) in a large bowl
3. Put rolls of sausage mix on pastry sheets
4. Roll and hold together with eggwash
5. Eggwash top of each roll
6. Poke rolls with a fork for decoration
7. Cut each one into 5 pieces and bake for 20-25 minutes
8. Let cool and enjoy

Tomato and garlic prawns with steak.

Okay, so this week I made a lot of experimental dishes which actually turned out pretty nice, so keep  a look out for an easy chicken casserole, sweet potato hash browns and many more.

But today I want to share something that I don't usually get to have, my toddler is too little for steak, (although I'm sure she would be over the moon if I gave her the prawn mixture). So Drayce decided to go to bed really early and I hadn't even started dinner yet so she got a quick banana and peanut butter wrap and the adults got a rare indulgence.









Obviously oven chips aren't the healthiest choice but it was what I felt like and turned out really nice.
Also, when you read food blogs they don't tell you how much time you have to put in to take good photos, I took 31 and only a couple of them were even reasonable, now I'm going to show you how I took a few simple ingredients and made a fancy meal in about 25 minutes.

Tomato and Garlic Prawns with Steak

Preparation 5 mins|Cooking 7 mins

Ingredients:

• 2 minute steaks
• 1cup frozen prawns
• 1/4cup pasata (pureed tomatos)
• 4 cloves garlic
• 2 large mushrooms

Method:

1. Dice mushrooms and add to a hot pan, saute with crushed garlic until garlic becomes fragrant
2. Add pasata to the pan with mushrooms and garlic and cook until hot; about 5 minutes
3. Put frozen prawns into the tomato mixture and stir
4. Cook steak in a separate pan for 1 minute on each side 
5. Put steak onto a plate and serve covered in prawns and with a side of your choice.

Also, because this is supposed to be about kids, have a picture of Drayce's cheesy grin from when we were cooking breakfast this morning.

I forgot I even started this blog, I have been thinking over the past few days about what to call my new mum  blog, what to write in my first post etc.. but I guess I'll just continue this forgotten blog.

I have just left my retail job to become a stay at home mum again because my baby girl was missing me and crying when I dropped her at daycare. She still has a few days left in daycare and I am going to use a few of those days to get things organised at home so look forward to seeing some recipes and maybe a post about my first ever meal prep?