Sharabelle bakes

Baked Vegan Stovies I made the  Healthy start vegetarian Stovies  recipe yesterday.  Traditionally stovies are boiled potato's mixed with onions and leftover cooked meat.  In reality it's more often browned mince or cubed tinned Corned beef, that is mixed through the boiled mashed potato's.   Making a vegetarian version is kind of difficult.  Mixing various veggies through mashed potato's just isn't the same.  So I can understand why they came up with this method,  however It reminds me more of a vegetable gratin rather than Stovies.  Either way it's easy to make and tasty, so I can't really complain. The healthy start recipe cooks the veggies on the stove top, I decided to bake mine in the oven instead.  I used chopped onion and thinly sliced parsnip,  carrots and  turnip, which I layered in the casserole dish.  I seasoned the middle with black pe...

STOVIES Today's menu at the Pantry Turkey and rice soup Corn beef Stovies  Apple crumble or Jam sponge pudding with custard I never really know what am going to blog about until I turn on my computer.  I like the randomness of it, makes things more interesting that way.  I mean this morning I could never have imagined I'd be blogging about Stovies!!! Stovies is one of the Great Scottish comfort foods, however the versions change depending on the region you live in.  In Aberdeen we made it from tatties and beef mince. When I moved down to Fife I found there recipe was more wet with gravy, which I loved. At the Pantry it's made with cubed corn beef, onions and mashed potato's.  Then served with gravy on the side. Traditional Stovie recipe  Stovies is one of those foods that reminds me of being a kid again.  In our house it was always made at Hogmanny to see in the bells.  It was always on hand to serve...