Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

So when I went round to my buddy Karen's a couple weeks back, she cooked cottage pie and it was delicious. Inspired, I made my own at the weekend, with intent to use it during the week when I was too tired to cook. Pretty basic recipe but I list it here for your amusement.

I gently fried some onions in a pan with a little butter and added the mince, stirring it round occasionally until it was browned. I added salt, pepper, several glugs of Worcestershire sauce, a good splurge of brown sauce* and a beef Oxo cube and let it simmer for as long as it took me to cook the potatoes. When the potatoes were mashed (with salt, pepper and butter), I put the mince into a casserole dish and covered with the mash and left it to cool before refrigerating. It sat for two days and I'm sure it helped :) Tonight I cooked it for an hour in a medium oven (Gas mark 6), and the mashed potato went fantastically crispy on the top! It was DEEE-LICIOUS! The crispy soft potato and the very flavoursome mince were perfect *licks chops happily* I shall be making that again :)


*Brown sauce instead of ketchup because I appear to not be able to tolerate tomatoes any more. Or rather I can but I prefer to avoid it where possible. The brown sauce seemed to work just fine :)