Welcome to Thursday Coffee Hour. This is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you. In Great Britain today is celebrated as Guy Fawkes Day. According to history dot com:
Catholic dissident Guy Fawkes and 12 co-conspirators spent months planning to blow up King James I of England during the opening of Parliament on November 5, 1605. But their assassination attempt was foiled the night before when Fawkes was discovered lurking in a cellar below the House of Lords next to 36 barrels of gunpowder.
So that plot didn't work very well did it? What outsiders today recognize most about Guy Fawkes Day is the mask that has come to represent the computer hacker group Anonymous. The mask based on the face of Guy Fawkes is now a symbol of opposition around the world.
So are you planning to celebrate anything today? I may make some Toad in the Hole mainly because my local Food Lion makes a great Beer Bratwurst.
Toad in the Hole with Onion Gravy
Serving Size: 6
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1 pound pork sausage links
1 cup 2% milk
1 cup all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon salt
2 whole eggs
½ teaspoon mustard powder
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
Onion Gravy
1 medium red onion -- diced
1 teaspoon light brown sugar
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1 cup low sodium beef broth
1 teaspoon low sodium Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
Preheat oven to 425°F.
Heat oil in casserole dish or oven safe 10 inch skillet. Carefully add sausages and cook until browned all over. Carefully remove from oven.
While sausages are cooking add salt, flour, and mustard powder together. Mix eggs in milk. Make a well in center of dry ingredients and add wet stirring to form a thick batter.
Carefully pour batter on top of the sausages until about ¾ covered. Return to oven and cook for 25 to 30 minutes.
To make gravy melt butter in saucepan. Add onions and brown sugar and cook 15 to 20 minutes or until onions are caramelized. Add flour and cook for a couple of minutes.
Add broth and Worcestershire sauce and bring to a boil. Stir to thicken.
Serve gravy over toad in the holes.
Per Serving: 540 Calories; 42g Fat (70.3% calories from fat); 17g Protein; 23g Carbohydrate; 1g Dietary Fiber; 130mg Cholesterol; 738mg Sodium. Exchanges: 1 Grain(Starch); 1½ Lean Meat; ½ Vegetable; 0 Non-Fat Milk; 7½ Fat; 0 Other Carbohydrates.
Notes: These are sausages cooked in a Yorkshire batter. Use your favorite sausage links.
