Sid's Sausage Casserole

Another Winter warmer that's easy to prepare and scrumtiddlyumptious!

This will make enough for one, but serve with crusty bread to mop up all the lovely sauce, and there'll be enough for two.





Ingredients

1 tbsp olive oil

1 garlic clove, crushed

1 small onion, sliced

1 stick of celery, sliced fairly thinly

1 carrot, finely chopped

2 sausages

100g/3½oz tinned tomatoes

125g/4oz chopped mushrooms

150ml/5fl oz/¼ pint vegetable stock

A little red wine


Method

1. Heat the oil in a pan and sweat the garlic, onion, carrot and celery over a low heat until they have softened (the carrot will take longer to soften - if it is still a little firm when the onion is soft, don't worry).

2. Turn up the heat, add the sausages and fry for 1-2 minutes, turning the sausages until they are brown. Add the tomatoes, mushrooms, stock and wine.

3. Reduce the heat and simmer for 10 to 12 minutes or until the sausages are cooked through.

4. While the casserole is simmering, why not phone your mate to chat about what happened at the weekend.

5. After half an hour, yell, "Oh, no!", throw down the phone and run into the kitchen.

6. Take the pan with the sticky mess in the bottom and throw it into the bin.

7. Go for chips.