Hi Guys

Well today is like a winters day in Cape Town except the temperatures are very different! While it is pouring with rain, one swelters! Not pleasant and many showers are taken during the day to feel cool.

I ventured into Port Louis yesterday and must apologise for not writing but it was quite a hectic day to say the least! So I decided that I needed to give you some nice recipes today to make up for yesterday.

I want to share this easy Sausage pie recipe with you all, and hope that you make it as tasty as I do, as it is sch a lovely meal to serve with steamed vegies and a lovely green salad.

Sausage Pie

Sausages of your choice (Boerewors, pork, spicy whatever takes your fancy) In Mauritius I buy either the Frankies fresh boerewors or the Ille de France frozen boerewors which is delicious. Cook your sausages till cooked, and set aside to cool then cut into pieces to lay down flat in an ovenproof dish.

Then fry up white onions in a bit of olive oil till almost cooked (about 5 or 10 depending on how many people you are feeding)sliced, and then addd in sliced "Granny Smith" apples, and cook together with the onion, till transparent and cooked (almost stewed) Thicken this mixture with Bisto which makes it nice and brown, maizena or whatever you have to thicken the sauce. Season with salt and black pepper. Must be like a thick sauce not runny!

Place this mixture on top of the sausages, and then finally cover the above with mashed potatoe, place in an oven on 180 degrees and bake till bubbling and the potatoe is slightly brown in colour.

Tip for Mash potatoe

I would NEVER have thought that I would ever use smash, but I have to be totally honest and tell you all that since I have moved to Mauritius I do only use Smash, or the other dried potatoe of your preferred choice. BUT I will give you a really good tip with the smash, before you add in the 500 ml of boiling water that it tells you to add, place a generous pinch of Maldon sea salt, a good grounding of black pepper and an enormous lump of butter, then pour on the water and using your whisk start to mix, then add in 2 tsp of baking powder, this makes your smash light and fluffy and the butter just adds a whole new dimension the the taste.

You can add the following to mashed potatoe

Chopped parsley
Cooked green cabbage and cooked spring onions
Brown onions bits
Grilled peppers
Anything that you think would be a nice selection to make it slightly different.

Stale Bread

Dont throw your stale bread in the bin, place it in your Magimix and with the steel blade make breadcrumbs and store them in a ziplock bag in the freezer to use for crumbed pork chops, crumbed chicken breasts (ala woolies) and crumbed fresh fish. When making the breasts and fish, it is nice to chop garlic and fresh parsley into the crumbs, and then you have garlic/parsley coated breast or fish!

Happy Cooking
Suexx