When recipes collide!

[tejas]

Remember my kielbasa, onions and pepper dish? Well, I had the ingredients for it, but I was also in the middle of a massive laundry project, so I didn't want to mess with it. Plus, all I have are instant potatoes, including some that were left over from lunch.

Then I remembered that I'd been thinking about trying to cook Shepherd's Pie.

You see where I'm going with this.

I cooked the sausage in rings, then lined the bottom of a small loaf pan. It came out roughly three rings high with a few more stuck in here and there. (The pan I used took three rings across and six rings down. It's too hot to look on the bottom to see what size that is. :-)

Then I tossed onions and peppers into the pan, cooked, added seasonings and a little red wine. I kept the total fluid level low for this.

I poured the cooked vegetables and liquid onto the sausage and then covered with the potatoes.

Baked at 350 for about 40 minutes. Could have probably cooked it longer to get a nice brown crust on the top of the potatoes, but I was too hungry. :-)

This is a *great* version of the recipe and the best part is that you can walk away from it while it's cooking in the oven *much* easier than you can when it's cooking on the stove. The downside is the almost complete lack of gravy, but that could probably be corrected. An upside is you could add whole garlic and let it roast inside the casserole.

This would be great with beer bread and could cook in the oven along side it with no problem.

Comments

[From: tejas]

Yeah, slices, but rather than long slices (though that would work, just be more difficult to serve) they're sliced so they produce little "coins" of sausage.

If that makes better sense. ;-) Which it may not. :-)

[From: sg1jb]

Lol - yes, I think it makes sense. Your rings are our slices ;-). We cut our sausages across the diameter (slice them into round circles) - sausages cut lengthwise are rare here (although, I have seen some people slice them at a bit of an angle so they aren't completely round).

Thanks! We'll probably be trying your recipe one of these days.

[From: tejas]

Hope you like it!

[From: sg1jb]

Sounds yummy, for sure. Do your 'rings' = slices? Or...? If they are not slices, then I'm not sure what you mean by rings :-)