Side Dishes???

[Salad]

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.

[ss_storm]

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.

[luna moth]

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

[AngelPunks]

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

[Nadine216]

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?

[Salad]

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

[Nadine216]

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.

[Salad]

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??

[Nadine216]

NOOOOOO not english ... 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 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

[Salad]

Aww cool south african. Your post cracked me up

[Phteven]

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.