Sausage rolls and spaghetti

This is a photo of spaghetti, but this is a post about sausage rolls.

One of the Australian foods (or food types I guess) I missed while in the states was savoury pastries: pies, pasties and sausage rolls. I was very glad to find this recipe for vegan sausage rolls, and was delighted with the results. (I used walnuts rather than pecans, and I didn't have enough rolled oats so used about half uncooked freekeh (bulgur would work well too).)

I slathered the sausage rolls with tomato sauce (=ketchup) and gobbled them up. Side note: it is de rigueur to eat these pastries with tomato sauce, yet if you buy one at a shop they will charge you for a little sauce packet. America has trained me to be an easily-incensed consumer. I am incensed.

I made the full recipe of the filling mixture but only used half of it in sausage rolls. The other half I spread on a baking tray and cooked along with the rolls. This stuff ended up in the spaghetti sauce pictured above, and it was good -- like, worth doing again on purpose good.