SHOPPING LIST: Irish Coddle with Irish Soda Bread (4 portions)
Meal Plan Occasions 3, St Patrick's Day main (serves 4, Irish)

[ ] 8 good-quality pork sausages
[ ] 8 rashers thick back bacon, cut into 3 cm pieces
[ ] 1 kg floury potatoes (such as Maris Piper), peeled and cut into 1 cm slices
[ ] 3 large onions, sliced
[ ] sunflower or vegetable oil (you need 1 tbsp)
[ ] chicken stock cube (you need 1 cube)
[ ] dried thyme (you need 1 tsp)
[ ] 2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley, to serve
[ ] black pepper (you need 1 pinch)
[ ] 450 g plain flour, for the soda bread, plus extra for dusting
[ ] 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
[ ] salt (you need 1 tsp)
[ ] 400 ml buttermilk (or 400 ml of milk mixed with 1 tbsp of lemon juice, left for 10 minutes)

Cupboard check: sunflower or vegetable oil, chicken stock cube, dried thyme, black pepper, salt are probably already at home.
Buttermilk: sold in cartons in the dairy aisle. If you cannot find it, use the milk and lemon juice trick in the recipe.
Bacon: thick back bacon rashers give the best coddle.