This is an old passed down recipe I wanted to cook at Christmas – when I did boxing day for the 5000 (well 15 relatives I think?) – after much googling, I couldn’t find this version of it – most that I found were totally different and I knew roughly what was in it.

So here it is reproduced with kind permission from my mother (who had it published a LONG time ago in a little book) for all to enjoy:

• Sausage meat (1/4 kg)
• Onions (1 large one)
• dried Sage
• Tin of baked beans
• potatoes (1/2 kg)

Note: the amounts weren’t in the original notes for some reason.

Fry the onions. Boil & mash potatoes.

Put all ingredients in a casserole dish in the following order :-

sausage meat, fried onions, dried sage (to taste), beans.

Top with mashed potatoes.

Cook for 35 to 40 mins at 190 degress C

Eat + Enjoy!

happy 4047 everybody!

It’s chinese year of the TIGER… grrrr. Came out of my house to see a dragon earlier – COOOL! Missed it the last few years, video below.

So for me, as usual, I set my resolutions at CNY – mainly because, the start of the years always a weird point to do things and there’s always lots going on.

Last years “no platic bags” was generally good, hard at first but worked out. The greener me went well, sold the car (saved bucks and the environment) and I made some good progress on a number of projects.

So what for this year?

1) No more Mr Nice Guy – I’m taking a much firmer, no-nonsense approach with companies that don’t pay up on time. Training is all paid up front anyway,  as it has been, but no longer am I going to tread gently with organisations that take months paying. My payment terms for project work remain 50% up-front, but I won’t do ANYTHING till that’s paid now (no strategy meets esp.) and 50% on completion -  BUT I’m adding a discount for people that pay within 7 days of the invoice… and using the EU 8%+BR+£30 per overdue invoice.

2) More Mr Nice Guy – I kept this pretty quiet, but I wrote an eBook and a publishing agent has got interested – if I can write a draft of a full book by april, he’ll take it to the London book fair – yikes.

3) More downtime – been working faaaaaar too many hours, saying no to a few things.

4) A charity challenge – any suggestions for this year?

Hey ho… not sure anyone reads here anymore – if you do, say hi.

Luke