Savoury Mince with Tatter Topping

[gazza1960]

nuffin original here just your common O garden shepherds pie really.

1lb mince
1 mixed bag of frozen veggies
2lb mashing spuds
1 tbs worcestershire sauce
1 tsp  english mustard
1 onion finally chopped
1 tbs tomato paste
1 glass of red wine
1 egg yolk
parmesan and cheddar cheese
salt/pepper
harissa paste(optional)
Option b...............
make a it a hedgehog pie surprise by first cooking some chipolaters,snip in half and put inside pie....spice em up by
sliding a piece of fresh chilli(scoville rating your choice)under the sausage skin..certainly peps up the bite !!!!

easy as you like recipe,............first

brown mince and onion then add red wine and reduce on high heat

then add mustard/worcestershire sauce and tommy paste+ plenty of black pepper (or as a change add harissa paste if you like it spicey)

meanwhile boil spuds and stick thru a tatter ricer and add both cheeses+ the egg yolk with a large thingy of butter and whip to a lovely soft consistency.

add mixed veggies into the mince meat and layer into a glass dish.

smear the tatter mixture on top and add more grated cheeses.

put in oven on 200degrees for 20mins and serve with some other veggies of your choosing and a large glug of gravy.


fresh out of the oven


Get it down ya neck


O good ,some left for tomorrows lunch.


amazing how the old favs still work.........

judes just had a week off and went back to skool (work) monday
so made us a skool fav.

Banana instant whip with 100,s and 1000,s ......yum.

Id like to see your Ol Skool favs if you have any or a link to such recipes.

Enjoy

GazNjude

[gazza1960]

[galina]

I love the way you pretty the potato up with fork lines.  Why don't I think about that ........  Yep this looks like 'turkey use-up surprise' instead of the usual sandwich and curry ......

Vanilla Blancmange and fruit compote must be my fave easy comfort pudding, especially with cherries ....

[Poppy Mole]

Just had a rummage in the freezer for the mince (defrosting in the pinger) & will make for my supper, hope mine looks as yummy as yours - hungry now!!

[Lishka]

Pedant alert! 'Shepherd's" uses lamb mince I think - them thare shepherds we're all singing about atm ain't watching flocks of cows :P ;D Beef mince = Cottage; even so I suppose that begs the question of who on earth keeps a cow in their back garden nowadays? ::)

Love the use of the ricer 8) I use my old Mouli to same effect. Deffo Remembrance of School Dinners Past when you hit the lumps in the mash. Ugh! I go a bit more savoury & add finely chopped onion as well as cheese to it, and finish off shaking paprika over the forked-up surface before baking, aiming for a more golden than brown appearance.

At our girls school, the absolute run-away pudding fave was 'concrete' - a cocoa flavoured economical shortbread, cooked slowly 'til the consistency was that of, well...concrete, lethal to the teeth ;D It was served cut into squares with a squirt of mock-cream (remember that, you other oldies?) on top. Method of eating = dispose of the mock-cream anyway you want (some girls actually ate it) ::), then secrete the square in the pocket of your Regulation Knickers to munch on secretly throughout the afternoon.