[Sca-cooks] Shepherd's Pie

[Jessica Tiffin]

At 09:31 PM 1/26/04 -0600, Adamantius wrote:
>Cottage pie is what I associate with ground beef, although all the
>Irish diners in my neighborhood (yes, we have Irish diners, where,
>instead of pastitsio and moussaka at 3AM, you can get black puds with
>fried tomatoes and curried chips...) refer to the ground-beef cottage
>pie under mashed potato crust as shepherd's pie...

Here in Cape Town, I make cottage pie with ostrich mince, which is leaner, 
slightly darker and more flavourful than beef.  I also tend to make it 
rather like a bolognaise - onions, green pepper, grated carrot, chopped 
tomato, tomato paste, red wine, garlic, mushrooms, fairly moist.  It 
wouldn't occur to me to put mixed veges into it :>.

And the secret of the topping is to add garlic, cream cheese and finely 
diced rosemary and chives to the mashed potato.    Which I make with the 
skins on.  Because I like the flavour, and it makes me feel slightly less 
unhealthy ;>.  My housemate, who is a heretical German, likes cheese on 
top.  Weird.

We have heatwaves in Cape Town.  How's everyone's winter... ? :>

JdH

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