Cottage

 

A shepherd's pie involves lamb mince but a cottage pie contains beef mince. Fresh from the oven and pictured above, that's a cottage pie I made over two weeks ago before Phoebe and Margot flew to Australia with their parents.

It was carefully constructed. There was grated Cheddar cheese on the top surface and below that, something a little different from mere mashed potato. It was a 50/50 mixture of mashed potato and mashed swede (American: rutabaga).

The meat layer beneath  required 500 grams of good quality beef  mince, a chopped onion and a large diced carrot. There was also half a tin of kidney beans, three cloves of chopped garlic, salt and pepper, a teaspoonful of dry mixed herbs, an "Oxo" cube, a dollop of tomato puree and half a tin of chopped tomatoes. 

These ingredients bubbled together on a low heat for ninety minutes before I was ready to spoon the mince mixture into our largest casserole dish.

When the mash and the cheese had been layered on top, I popped the casserole dish into our oven at 200°C for half an hour. The cottage pie was eaten with tenderstem broccoli - cooked for seven minutes in our microwave.

The end result was a  wholesome and tasty meal which you can see reviewed below:-

"That was yummy Grandpa!" - Phoebe.
"Oh I'm stuffed!" - Stewart.
"Mmm. That was really tasty!" - Frances.
"Is there any left?" - Shirley.
"Mnamnamna!" - Margot.

from Yorkshire Pudding https://ift.tt/CNWVjOw