Spangolin's Famous And Lovely Cottage Pie.

Spangolin's Famous And Lovely Cottage Pie.

This is my favourite. Will serve 3 easily.

Ingredients:

4 large potatoes
butter
A bit of milk
Maybe some cheese for sprinkling
500g minced beef
A carrot
Some frozen peas (about a handful)
Red oxo cube
Lea & Perrins sauce
Brown rice miso, if you have some (not completely necessary, but nice)

Method:

First, peel all your potatoes, cut into quarters, and place in half-full saucepan of water. Bring to the boil, put on a relatively high heat, cover and vent, and leave for about 20 mins or until the potatoes are soft enough to slide off a fork if poked.

Drain, put lid back on and set aside.

Chop up carrots, put in saucepan with mince. Brown all the mince, mix it up and stuff. Try not to let it stick to the bottom of the pan. When it's all brown, add your crumbled oxo cube. If you have miso, add a spoon of it to about a pint of boiling water, then pour most of it in. If not, just add about half a pint of water to the mice now.

Splash some lea and perrins in. Don't drown the mince, just enough liquid to nearly cover. Add your peas now. Turn heat down, cover and leave to simmer for 5 mins.

Now turn oven on to about 200 degrees or whatever that is for gas. While it warms, mash up potatoes with lots of butter and maybe a tiny bit of milk.

When mince is done, put mince in the bottom of a pyrex casserole dish or something similar. Use a fork to spread the mashed potato over the top, filling in all holes. Eat some mashed potato now - cook's privilege. Sprinkle lots of cheese on top if you like.

Put in oven for half an hour to brown the top. Make sure dish is sitting on a tray or something - it will bubble over.

Manwhile, make some beans, or veg if you are feeling healthy. Ta-da!