Sausage and home made baked bean casserole

• 400g home made baked beans (view baked been recipe)
• 8 pork sausages (each one cut into 4 slices)
• 1 large onion, finely diced
• 1 carrot, peeled and cut into small bite size pieces
• 1 pint vegetable stock
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 1 tbsp English mustard
• 3 tbsp chopped parsley
• Pinch of salt
• Few grinds of freshly ground black pepper

Heat the oil in a deep frying pan and cook the sausages until browned all over.  Add the carrots and onions and cook for a further 10 minutes until softened.  Add the stock, mustard, parsley, pepper and a pinch of salt, stir everything through and bring to the boil.  Add the homemade baked beans to the sausage mixture, stir, reduce the heat and simmer for 1 hour.  Once cooked through, divide the casserole between 4 bowls, sprinkle over some extra parsley and enjoy.

Whilst it is summer, on days like this, comfort food is called for!  You can use store bought baked beans however home made baked beans make this dish a bit more special.  Likewise use whichever sausages you prefer, there are a good variety of flavours out there so mix it up a bit, give some extra flavour to the dish.  I served this with some mashed potato and it went down a treat.