to have been very smug with my friend

[GoFullForce]

her DC loves Shepard's pie.

So I stayed up late last night and made the pie, slow cooked the mince, boiled carrot, broccoli, onion, fresh herbs, into beef stock, and blended, as her DC doesn't "like" vegetables.

So friend came and asked how I made her, she then proceed to say DC wont like it, as DC likes cheap mince, boiled tattie and gravy granules and that's it!.

Apparently my Shepard's pie, is the best ever and DC asked for seconds, the look on her face was while mine was

She came to visit this afternoon, Im minding my other friends children for the day, as unfortunately its my friends mums funeral. I wanted to help out, as I know its going to be tough for her, so was making her meals etc... in case she had a bad day, which I know there will be a few.

So, I made a large batch of mince and made shepherds and mince pie for her, and with the left overs I made a small one for friends DC. (as she told me her DC like it).

I make shepards pie and cottage pie - i do know the difference. Lamb - shepards.

Cottage - beef

but i dont know which is meant to have carrots in so i put it in both - and i alwasy use beef in both as dont like lamb - do nerrrrrr!

"no she asked, and I said mince, from the farmers market, apparent its nice mince"

No such thing as naice mince. It's all made of animal innrds/eyeballs/bollocks/nipples.

But if you trick a child into eating vegetables then they aren't really eating them are they?

So it doesn't count.

unless you specifically buy 'breast' mince, bupcakes

ie 'free range turkey breast mince' like wot i have got in my freezer but am too tight to cook since only DH and DS eat it and they eat kebabs so don't know why i bother

Plus, if you'd been as wonderful as meeee, you would have a topping from mashed carrot, butternut squash and swede, thus boosting the vegetable intake of your friend's poor little Dickensian-rickets child.

Potatoes have hardly any nutritional oomph unless they're served skins on.

Thankyou.

I topped it with sweet tattie, swede and carrot. (DC didn't notice as it gets slaughtered in ketchup .

I'd be smug too.

Oh yes, Lab Pie - didn't think of that

The Cottaging Shepherds it is then! Sounds like a pub... a bad pub

Lady

Yes but were they sweet potatoes cultivated by a blind women co-operative in Kenya? And brought over here by carrier donkey? And did you pay Gift Aid on them? Because if not you have no reason to be smug, young lady.

RicketsChild, O RicketsChild
Come sit with me
Let me ease your twisted limbs
It's butternut squash for tea.

Rickets Child, O RicketsChild,
Weep and limp no more
For this mince is from the farmer's mart
And not the Iceland Store.

i buy all my veg from

haha, bupcakes, you made me dare I say it lol.

No friend didn't know I was being secretly [hehehe]

Im now wanting a cupcake!!

AM, I wish mine was that clean, my farmers market smell of shit, and no bugaboo in sight must move to the eastend.

GoFull

i've never quite seen on like that either, i regularly go to one in an aircraft hangar, but every time i see/hear those immortal words i think of Armstrong and Miller

(and that's not a bad thing either )

Don't know about anyone else but I don't half fancy cottage pie for dinner now...

Shepherd's pie is meant to be made with leftover cooked lamb from a roast that you have minced yourself. Therefore, not wasting the lamb OP

bupcakesandcunting how am I going to make the spag bol tonight after your description of mince? Euww, surely my Waitrose mince is a little better?

Lady it seems you are indeed correct

i particularly like the pictorial detail in the photos at the bottom

at Laboratory Pie

Where do you put the blended veg, mixed with the mince? I will try, although I am a bit put off mince by knowing it's bollocks.

My DS will always try new things with other people and not me, it drives me mad but I'm used to it.

You are annoying.

I hate Pie