How do you make your cottage pie

I crush up two cottages - pink ones are best. Then I add herbs and some mashed potato on top.

It's really best made with leftover roast beef, and imo some leftover gravy is essential. Assuming you're using beef mince though, I'd brown the mince well, take it out of the pan, saute some onion, garlic, celery and maybe carrots, add the mince back, add a bit of red wine/beef stock/leftover gravy and a dash of L&Ps, maybe some mixed herbs, bit of mustard etc, and simmer until it's well reduced. I don't normally put peas in CP but sometimes I do.

<gasp> It's illegal to hurt pink houses <wibble>

Sophie, I do pretty much that, I also add a bit of tomato puree because Mr Hole likes it that way.

I bet you use ones with thatched roofs though - loser.

Not often enough is my answer! My fave tea of all time, but OH hates mash ?

When I do get the change to sneak it in, I layer the mash so that it is really peaky, as it goes extra-crispy. I favour peas big time, yum yum. I also like it with ketchup, which'll probably make most folk go ?

Chop onion and soften, add mince and crushed garlic, add can chopped tomatoes, mushrooms, carrots, squirt of worcester sauce, generous squirt of tomato puree, squirt of ketchup, salt & pepper, small teaspoon of sugar. Pile in dish, add plenty of mashed potato on top, sprinkle with cheese.

Bung in hottish oven for about 20/30 mins.

Tuck in.?

My Nana gave me her version.

Buy a big beef roasting joint, have that on a Sunday, cold with pickles on the Monday & ground up the rest to use in a cottage pie.

Make with parsnip & potato mash (add in cream, nutmeg & mustard seed) - normally add celery, carrot & toms into beef.

My Nana puts guiness into hers - probably explains why she is 96 in 2 days.

Go to M&S. Buy pie in a box. Put in oven until cooked and serve to husband. Recycle box.

Cottage Pie? Done.

I cook the mince, add onions and garlic, then add veg - carrots, celery, and anything else left in the fridge! Add a can of baked beans, and a bit of tomato puree and a load of mixed herbs than add gravy. And of course mash.. i like it with melted cheese on top.. yum! x

?

Another cheese on top lover here.

I brown off the mince and grated onion (my children are great with veg in general, but neither of them like pieces of onion in things, so I grate it and they don't notice), then add beef stock (2 oxos and water) and a tin of chopped tomatoes. I then add a very generous squirt of heinz ketchup. If I'm feeling virtuous I also put in grated carrot or frozen spinach, but often I don't. I then boil and mash potatoes while the mince is simmering, adding butter and milk and stirring with a wooden spoon, just like my gran taught me ?. I season both the mince and the potato to my taste, then pour the mince into a pyrex, slop the spuds on top and cover the lot with grated cheese, chuck it in the oven until the cheese is golden. I usually serve it with green beans or peas, and carrot or brocolli. It's really boring, and a bit runny too tbh, and definitely not in foody territory, but we love it. I'm afraid I bastardize lasagne in the same way, using the above mince recipe instead of proper bolognese sauce, but it tastes lush.

I brown the mince with some onion, then drain off the excess fat. Then i add a beef oxo cube and seasoning and a dash of worchestershire sauce, i sometimes add a few peas too or some chopped carrot or mushrooms. Boil up some puds to make the mash and then mash them with bit of milk and butter. If H is doing it he'll add a few mixed herbs to the mash.

Stick it all in a dish and then bung in the oven for 40mins-hour.

Brown mince & chopped onion add packet mix, bung in oven slop mash on top with cheese of course.

serve with some peas and marto sauce

I brown the mince and onion then add some water and add gravy granule gradually so a nice sauce put in casserole dish and then either mash on top or sliced potatoe with cheese on top!! We had this last nice it was DELICIOUS!

Mince, onions and finely chopped carrot. Some garlice, salt and seasoning, stock, a squidge of tom puree and mash on topwith b utter, dash of milk mixed in and grated cheese on top. Serve with peas, cabbage whatever

Pretty much exactly that, but it's a no to the peas and a yes to a squirt of tomato puree.

My (my Mum's) secret ingredient is to add a tin of Condensed Oxtail soup, without diluting it. Yum!

That's my exact recipe marmalade, although sometimes I have cumberland, just for the carrots.

I've said it before, and I will say it again - baked beans have no place in cottage pie. Or shepards pie. Or chilli.