Bubble & Squeak cakes

Apparently it's going to snow later on this week in England and it's already so cold that my poor wee car is spluttering and coughing when I try to start her in the mornings. With that in mind (the snow not my car) here's a nice winter warmer. Can be an accompaniment or a main event. Nice served with sausages (tescos finest aberdeen angus beef for me please!) or with a poached egg or two. I'm not giving weights of things, you know what to do and how many you are cooking for, I always make this based on instinct and possibly a little greed...

mashed potato
cooked and drained savoy cabbage
onion
garlic
mushrooms
worcester sauce
black pepper
plain flour
olive oil
a glass of sherry

Turn up the heating, put on a jumper and open the sherry. The sherry is to drink as you cook and is not added to the cakes - sherry is like alcoholic central heating. Tescos Muscavado is nicest...

Fry onions, garlic and mushrooms until soft but not coloured. Add few dashes of worcester sauce.

Combined onion mixture with mash and cabbage and black pepper (if not a fan of worcester sauce add salt at this stage too).

form into cakes about the size of your palm.

dust in flour (you can leave this off if you are a coeliac or have a wheat allery but it adds to crispyness

fry in oil, low heat, until crispy and golden brown on outside and until you think inside is hot. If you do with warm mash it's easier, cold mash needs a bit more cooking.

ta dah. cosy from the inside out...