Side Dishes???

Tonight for tea we are having sausages vegies and potato bake it got me thinking of some other ideas for side dishes - what does everyone else do.

Love cauliflower cheese in winter. Or broccoli & cauliflower with white sauce.
I made a sweet potato & potato bake with bacon last week and it was delicious- something a bit different to just normal potato bake. I also do potato & pumpkin mash as an alternative to mashed potato. If I'm cooking something in the oven then I'll do baked potato- peeled and chopped potato sprinkled with some sea salt & Season-All seasoning. Also do that when making potato chips, just slice the potato thinly instead of chopping it.
Occasionally use those packet pastas as side dishes, I only buy them when they are on special but they are quick and easy to prepare.

Green beans - sometimes topped with a tomato and garlic sauce, and some flaked almonds.
Corn cobs with sesame seeds
Rocket salad with roast pumpkin and pine nuts
Polenta shapes

corn cobs rolled in chilli flakes, sea salt & black pepper
beans
asparagus
couscous
polenta

OH I just found a recipe for a baked cabbage thingy that I am dying to try out. It would be perfect with sausage and veggies.

BTW why do you call it tea, when it's actually dinner/supper?

Lol nadine this is what i have always called it hehehehe does this make me weird I have just grown up calling it that :redface:

LOL no does not make you weird. I've notice you Aus chickies call it tea. Just wanted to ask.

When I think of tea .. it's like the English. At about 10:00 in the morning and it's actually TEA with tarts and cake and sweet/savoury bites.

lol I was nearly going to say in my last post "are you aussie" but thought if you were I might offend you and maybe I had been saying tea my whole life and people were just laughing behind my back. I was sure I had seen other people use this term but you had me second guessing myself :)
Are you english??

NOOOOOO not english :lol: ... South African. And it would not have offended me, even if I were Aussie.

The first time I read it, it was someone posting about how she made her husband tea after work and I though "Ok, lucky b@stard he gets tea (sweetthings) after work AND dinner" So the next poster said that sometimes her husband makes tea for them ... and I was like " What the heck am I missing, these crazy aussies :p are a bunch of tea drinkers!!" I figured out soon enough that they were actually speaking about a MEAL. Still wish I had a husband that likes making our tea :lol:

Aww cool south african. Your post cracked me up :lol:

LOL I don't call it tea either.

Grilled vege stacks
Rice noodles tossed with some shallots, herbs, lime, fish sauce and a tiny bit of castor sugar.