Hello Earthlings,

Now before I go on and delve straight into this whole recipe post I want to talk a bit first, well type, but let’s be honest that isn’t really a surprise. When the new year started, yes all that time ago, I made it one of my new year’s resolutions to cook more and I have been doing (I know, I’ve had nearly 10 months to be doing so) and I really wanted to cook more and start to adapt recipes and put my own mark on them so to speak. I want to do this so they feel more personal to me and so I can then share them on here. The recipe that I am about to tell you lovely people I originally found in the Sainsbury’s magazine (September 2017 issue), so if you would like to view the original recipe and see a better looking photograph then follow this link which will take you to the Sainsbury’s website. I mentioned the picture thing because I do need to up my camera skills for these posts but hey, we can’t all be multi-talented humans. 

This is the first time that I have bought the Sainsbury’s magazine so I definitely feel like it was a grown up thing to do so I was kind of surprised when I saw so many different types of recipes. I mean, I don’t really know what I was expecting from a supermarket magazine but if you haven’t picked one of these up from a supermarket then I recommend you do, especially if you enjoy cooking, I know Tesco’s do a magazine but I’m not sure about any others. 

Flicking through I found this recipe and it caught my eye because the whole concept of it is just so simple, baked beans in a pie? Who would’ve thought it? I definitely wouldn’t have. But I did have my apprehensions, maybe the beans and just the cheese would’ve been too plain on their own. So I opted to add sausages, I guess you could use any type of sausages that you fancied however I chose Richmond purely because we had some already in the freezer so it was very convenient.

Pies are so easy and so tasty and in my opinion, a proper winter warmer. If the rain is pouring down outside and you just want some comfort food then a pie is easily the best way to combat this need. Any pie will do the trick but I am today going to tell you a suuuuuper (emphasis on the uuuuuu please) easy one. Let’s head to the kitchen! (Well you can really stay sat down but I like that little phrase)

For this, you will need: 

• 1 tbsp butter 
• 1 onion, finely sliced
• 2 x 400g baked beans (you can use any but beans means Heinz)
• 1-2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• Sausages (your preference to how many and brand, I used 4 and Richmond)
• 300g mature cheddar cheese, grated
• 1 x 375g pack of ready rolled puff pastry 
• The Sainsbury’s recipe recommends serving with steamed greens but really you can serve it however you want)