Lucy wrote: > 3 Cottage (shepherds) Pie with carrots and peas .. there will now be debate > about whether cottage and shepherds pie are the same thing... Its minced > meat in a sumptuous gravy with mashed potato on the top baked in the oven > until the mash has attained that golden edge that makes you have to (You > just HAVE TO) tug a bit off it...
Well, you suggested debating it ;o)...... I don't think of them as the same thing. Cottage pie is made from scratch ie. all fresh ingredients, using fresh mince (ground beef for those in the US), but shepherd's pie is made using left over cold roast meat (and left-over gravy), usually beef, because there was never any left-overs if we had roast lamb! At least that's how my mother always made them, and how I do now, too! Hell ___________________________________ "To have great poets, there must be great audiences too." - Walt Whitman Hell's Home Page - NEW & IMPROVED! http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hell/index.html
