Toad in the Hole

"'We must stop eating,' cried Toad, as he ate another."  -- Arnold Lobel

This year, I am really making a concerted effort to save money.  Could I be trying to save up for a big trip in the future?  Possibly.  (More on that another time.)  So, one area we were positively wasting money on was eating out.  We are trying to eat at home a lot more.  So I am taking a closer look at all my Pinterest recipes and want to make a lot more of them.  The problem is the picky kid issue.  And now a second problem is I am now doing Weight Watchers, so I am really looking closely at recipes and trying to figure out if I can alter them somehow, or just say "The heck with it" and use up all my points.

After poking around all my recipes, I found this Toad in the Hole recipe that might fit all of my requirements.  I may have pinned this when I was looking at a lot of Gordon Ramsay recipes as it was surrounded by Yorkshire Pudding and Scotch Eggs recipes.  And I may also have found this:

Isn't he yummy?  But I digress.  Toad in the Hole has some ambiguity regarding the origin of its name.  The most popular  story I could find is that it represents a toad peeking out of it's hole.  I don't know about you, but I don't see it.

They look like sausages in a batter to me.  But that's not important.  What is is that it was DELICIOUS!!!!!  BOTH kids ate it.  Obviously that automatically puts it in our dinner rotation.  And it was easy.  Except for the sausages (or bangers as they like to call them in the UK), everything else you already have in your kitchen.  See the recipe here.  Thanks to Rockrecipes.com for this delicious find!


From my board "Food is essential to life."