Little Homemade Sausage Rolls

Homemade, bite-sized sausage rolls are a delicious and warm snack on a cold Winter's day. Hot and fresh from the oven and served up with a little pot of tomato sauce, these disappear very quickly at our place. I was lucky to get a photo before they were all gone!

Homemade sausage rolls

This is how I made these tasty little parcels. My recipe is based on the one for Chicken and Vegetable Rolls from the Women's Weekly cookbook, Fresh Food for Babies and Toddlers.

Little Homemade Sausage Rolls

500g chicken mince

1 clove crushed garlic

1 medium-sized zucchini 

1 beaten egg

1/2 cup stale breadcrumbs

1 tablespoon tomato sauce

1 teaspoon tamari sauce, salt reduced

3 sheets puff pastry (I use "Butter Puff" ready-rolled pastry.)

extra beaten egg

sesame seeds (*optional)

1.  Preheat oven to 200C. Line two baking trays.

2.  Defrost sheets of puff pastry. 

3.  Finely grate zucchini then wrap in a tea towel and squeeze out excess moisture. Chop

     zucchini finely.

4.  Mix chicken mince, garlic, zucchini, beaten egg, breadcrumbs and sauces in a large 

     bowl until well combined.

5.  Cut pastry sheets in half lengthways so you have 6 lengths of pastry.

6.  Place equal amounts of the chicken filling mixture lengthways along the centre of each            pastry sheet.

7.  Roll each piece of pastry up beginning at a long edge and encasing the chicken filling.

8.  Cut each pastry roll into fairly even bite-sized pieces.

9.  Put each little sausage roll, seam-side down, onto baking trays. Brush a little of the extra 

     beaten egg over each one and sprinkle with sesame seeds (if using).

10. Bake in oven until pastry is flaky and golden brown and filling is cooked.

11. Serve warm with a pot of rich, red tomato sauce for dipping them into. 

If I were you, I'd snaffle a few of these before any of your hungry loved ones know they are ready. It's the only way to get your fair share!

Meg

p.s. You could use grated carrot instead of zucchini if you wish.

Rain, rain and more RAIN!

I woke this morning to the sound of heavy rain on our tin roof! What a beautiful noise! It's been raining here, very heavily at times, for hours. The gutters are gushing, the drainpipes are overflowing and our water tanks are filling up. We think we've had around 60-70mm of rain so far! 

Of greater interest to our boy though, is what's happening down at the little creek at the bottom of our street. Umbrella up, and together with his Dad, he set off for the creek to see for himself the impact of all this heavy rain. Typically, this creek has just a trickle of water in it but, on days like today, it becomes a swollen, fast-moving, somewhat bigger torrent.

Here are some photos our boy took:

 A waterfall.

A cascade.

Up and over the little bridge.

Rushing away downstream.

Localised flooding.

Bark flowing away like lava at the urging of the water.

Needless to say, both my intrepid, rainy-day adventurers returned home from the creek a lot less dry than when they set out! In the ensuing excitement of sharing the photos and videos he took, my boy and I talked about the incredible power of water that he had just witnessed for himself on a small, localised scale. It's quite something to see all the bark from your little local playground being washed out and away at the behest of fast-flowing waters. "It was like lava, Mum!" 

I hope, if you live in our area of South-East Queensland, that you are dry and safe as the rain pours down today.

Meg

Liebster Award: Part 2

Liebster Awards are given to bloggers by bloggers. Fiona, from Life at Arbordale Farm, nominated this blog and now it's my turn to pay it forward.

My nominees for a Liebster Award are:

Lucy from Follow That Child

Julie from Country Living by the Sea

Suzie from Suzie's Simple Life  

Fiona from Stay Home Instead

My ten questions for these fellow bloggers are:

1.   What's your favourite time of the day? Why?

2.   If money were no object, where would you go and why?

3.   What do you like to do on a rainy day?

4.   What's the best piece of advice you've ever been given?

5.  If a library could stock just one book, what should that book be? Why?

6.  If you were elected Prime Minister or President of your country tomorrow, what would be the first thing you would change?

7.  What's your go-to comfort food?

8.  What is the most memorable meal you've ever cooked? Why was it so memorable?

9.  What is one skill that a parent or grandparent taught you that you are so glad you learned?         

10. What is something you are doing to make more happiness in your own life and in the life of others?

Pondering this set of questions took me almost as long as answering Fiona's great questions. I'm looking forward to reading the answers!

Meg