MORE PLEASE - FAMILY MEAL
Bangers and Mash, Eggs in Purgatory, Minestrone and some news!
Hello and welcome back my gorgeous More Please family! Thank you as ever for your support, you keep The Dinner Party going!
More Please has been evolving the whole time the Dinner Party has been running and I’ve loved watching it grow and change. Currently you are getting 6+ extra recipes a month over two editions, plus little life updates, travel tips, recommendations and musings. I am really enjoying creating recipes around single subject themes like ingredients, moods or needs (Lemons, Tarts, Big Breakfasts) and am going to keep that going. Don’t forget to pop questions or suggestions for upcoming themes in the comments! I would love to know what you want to see here.
But there is always room for more and I have decided to drop an extra recipe in your inbox each month which will be “A Seasonal Supper”. One dish for a weeknight dinner using ingredients that are at their very best that month. Our first edition will be out next week and its just glorious - Chicken braised with Girolles, Sherry and Butterbeans - a perfect September Supper. Then, later this month I will be deep diving with three recipes using Autumn’s most ubiquitous ingredient - The Pumpkin, including a whole one stuffed with creamy rice.
With that - I have also decided to pause the shopping list element from More Please in favour of extra recipes. If this is something you will miss - let me know! Ok enough housekeeping!!!
For this More Please we are staying on the theme of Family Meals but heading into more genuine Family territory, not fake kitchen family. In fairness, our three recipes today are all things we would make for Staff Food. But I think of them more as meals I would sit and eat with my family after a crippling long day. These are Family Meals for when you have nothing left and you just need to be fed and soothed. They are the comforting meals that are best when in a group devouring situation.
Bangers and Mash is one of my top 10 dishes ever so I am thrilled to bring you a stunning recipe for it replete with a sensational onion gravy.
For Classic RMPQ (immortalising my best ever insta recipes) it's everybody’s favourite Kitchen Sink recipe - Minestrone. This is the perfect time of year to make it with all the gorgeous Autumn brassicas coming into season.
First up though, we have Eggs in Purgatory to fulfil my carnal need for Brinner (breakfast for dinner). Soft eggs poached in a spicy tomato sauce and served with fried bread. It takes 20 minutes to make with minimal prep and maximum warm hug feeling.