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You can’t go wrong with shepherd’s pie!

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Usedtobeblonde Fri 20-Mar-26 09:47:00

When my H was alive we had cottage pie weekly and even after my GD came to live with me we had it regularly but I suddenly went off any thing with mince in it, it was both texture and taste.
Considering that I had been enjoying it for 80 something years I was surprised, but I agree that a well made Cottage pie with the right balance of ingredients and a super creamy mash top is a joy and I have always felt that teaching pupils how to make it at school should be compulsory, it would eliminate many a junk food meal.
It can be very economical with lots of veg included and. I have a recipe somewhere with red lentils bulking out the mince.
Well done for satisfying your guests an and proving to your French friend that English cooking is not all bad.

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Witzend Fri 20-Mar-26 09:36:40

Strictly speaking cottage pie, since I use beef mince, not lamb. It’s always been a favourite of dh, but I don’t often make it, except a mega version to take to a DD’s for at least 6 of us - it’s a favourite of the Gdcs, too.

Last week I took the usual mega version, there were 8 of us, dd2 also there, plus a friend of the Gdcs’ whose mother is French and a very good cook.

I just had a WhatsApp forwarded by dd from the friend’s French mother to say her dd loved my cooking - that child had 6 helpings!!

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