Cooking with Jonny69: Baked bean feast

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Cooking with Jonny69: Baked bean feast *UPDATED*

This is an old favourite from my student days and I still eat it all the time. I started making it on a Sunday morning as the ultimate all-in-one pan hangover killing satisfying breakfast treat but it's great for dinner or lunch. You can make loads of it in one go and keep it in the fridge ready to microwave. Then once you've had a go at this one you can progress to my sausage and bean casserole which is a more formal version of this with proper beans, better for dinner and great for the upcoming cold nights. Both are a hearty meal and will impress your friends be they dinner guests or hangover buddies.

Edit for 2009: Now we're in 2009 and I know how to take digital pictures and host them online I've come back to this with pictures a plenty. See below.

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You need:

1 pack of sausages
1 pack of bacon
1 onion, chopped
1 tin of potatoes or leftover cooked potatoes
2 tins of baked beans
Sauce of your choice, HP, Ketchup, BBQ, Worcester, English mustard, Nandos etc.

Large frying pan

Fry the sausages until cooked and in the meantime chop the onion and bacon into small pieces. Once the sausages are cooked remove them from the pan and cut them into bite sized pieces. Fry the chopped bacon until crispy and in the bacon fat fry the onions until soft. Add the potatoes in with the onion so that the outsides become browned slightly. Return the sausage to the pan and pour over the two tins of baked beans. Now season it up nicely with the sauce of your choice making sure it's as spicy as you can handle and it's ready to eat.

But wait, we're not done yet! Pull out a baking dish and you can make this really cool. Pour the beanfeast into the dish and crack 6 eggs over the top and pop it in the oven for 15 minutes until the eggs are cooked. Now you can take slices out the dish and serve it as it is. This will keep for up to a week in the fridge.

Oh and serve up with a large mug of tea or coffee. It's much better with ;)

This time I've used leftover lardons, new potatoes and sausages I already had cooked. Hunk it all up, roughly, on the chopping board:

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These will shortly be combined with this:

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Soften and get a bit of colour on the onions and add the potatoes to crisp up the outsides:

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Add the meaty stuff:

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At this point I added some hot Jamaica jerk seasoning for a bit of extra flavour and a deadly kick to come and get you afterwards:

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Beans...

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(I also added some organic ketchup for extra tomatoey richness)

Simmer... and serve with the compulsory cup of strong spotty tea:

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Coming soon: Sausage casserole.
 
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Sounds nice mate thanks a lot :)

Bit of a coincidence really. I was planning on doing that rib receipe again that you posted awhile ago:)
 
Sounds easy enough, parents are away so I'm gonna try this one! :D

Can you provide a picture of what the end result should be?

And how on earth did you figure this one out? :p
 
Last night I made beans and mash:

Stick the following into boiling, salted water:
Enough peeled 'tatos for two people, chopped into 1/2" cubes (they cook quicker like that...).
Three large garlic cloves (whole).

Boil 'em forever...Until the 'tatos are as soft as they'll get.

Meanwhile, in a frying pan:

Fry off some bacon lardons (or just some cut up bacon...) until crispy then remove and set to one side.

Add a little butter and olive oil to the bacon fat, get it smoking hot and drop in half an onion, sliced very finely (1-2mm). Immediately turn the heat down to half.

When the onion is soft, throw in two mashed cloves of garlic, some pepper, dried chilli flakes, a teaspoon of French mustard and a teaspoon of Bovril.

Mix up and immediately add a tin each of baked beans and tomatoes.

Simmer for about 30 minutes until it goes all stodgy. Add your bacon and mix.

Mash up the 'tatos and garlic cloves with butter and a little cream. Add some herbage (dried or fresh) if you're feeling kinky.

Stir in a handful of grated cheddar while you're at it.

Take an oven dish, put half your potatoes in it, make a big well in the middle, put the bean mixture in there and cover it with the rest of your 'tatos.

Grate more cheddar on top and grill on a high heat until it browns.

Win.

*n
 
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Win.

*n
It sounds pretty mad but I'LL TRY IT!!!!

Can you provide a picture of what the end result should be?

And how on earth did you figure this one out? :p
Good god no, looks like a big pile of baked beans with tasty goodies hidden in it! I could photograph it but my phone takes odd pics and it'll look like a cowpat :D

It was passed to me by an old wise student when I was doing an apprenticeship. We were swapping ideas and this sounded like a winner :D
 
You just pour the beans in the frying pan without draining the sausage/bacon fat away? Cholesterol fest!

good flavour, everything in moderation. Good work Johny69, sometimes the simplest food can just be so nourish.

Wish I could be bothered to make an OCUK recipe website.
 
good flavour, everything in moderation. Good work Johny69, sometimes the simplest food can just be so nourish.

Wish I could be bothered to make an OCUK recipe website.


If you make spag bol do you drain the fat off the mince before adding the sauce?

I hate fat so I drain fat from everything I can - shame I can't do the same for my belly :D
 
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