to make shepherd's pie for tea in July?

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Made shepherd's pie last night. DH was but managed to force it down .

It hadn't crossed my mind that it was a 'winter' food. I'm still making soups and pies and chillis and stuff for dinners, and we're barbecuing and having salads and stuff too but mainly at the weekend. It's not a bloody heatwave!

Do you have a 'summer wardrobe' and a 'winter wardrobe' of recipes?!

We had mince and mash with lots of veg last week and it was glorious. Food isn't seasonal in my house:)

I always cook cottage pie in the summer.

OP YANBU on all fronts.

We tend to call it Shepherds Pie in our house even though 9% of the time I use minced beef not lamb. When we made it in housecraft at school back in the 70s that is what they called it so there!

Also Shepherds Cottage Pie is one of the best meals in the world. Can't say I would necessarily do it in a heat wave - but as you say we haven't got one of those at the moment have we?

That should be 99% of the time!

My DH doesn't let the weather stop him inhaling enjoying shepherd's pie.

In the last couple of weeks I've made a cottage pie and a chicken stew!

Chicken stew and dumplings last night. Foster d wolfed it down. Never met a shepherds pie I didn't like

Another one who calls it shepherds pie when it's really cottage pie.

No idea why - it's what my mum has always called it. In fact, we just call it shepherds.

I love nice hearty 'winter' meals in the summer and a nice salad, preferably a ploughmans in the winter!

Chicken casserole tonight. We will sweat whilst eating it but I didn't know what else to do with 4 chicken thighs!

I cook it any time of the year.
When my boys were at home I used to make "cow" pie - the meat bit of shepherds or cottage pie and cut out puff pastry cows on top. Sometimes it was horse pie, pig pie, according to which cutter they chose! They preferred the pastry top to mash. Ah it is making me nostalgic, might have to resurrect it for just me and OH.

My kids expect cottage pie all year round. This week and last I compromised by giving them mince with chips and adults mince and greens. Just not the weather for the full on pie!

Hope not coz I'm currently wolfing it down for lunch!!

Yanbu we had lasagna the other day. Good in all weathers!

We had mince and tatties last night, which is basically deconstructed cottage pie (have to do it like this as dh and ds1 do not like mash - weirdos). So if you're unreasonable, so am I!

It makes sense that a Shepherd's Pie is made with lamb but I make mine with beef and still call it Shepherd's Pie.

My fave is beef mince topped with mashed carrot and swede.

Sometimes when it's hot we don't fancy anything too heavy so we'll have a salad, or we'll have the meat but with steamed veg instead of roasted. We might have fish a bit more often.

But nothing's off limits. We've been eating roast dinners, and curries and chillies and shepherds/cottage pies as normal as well.

I would find it to heavy in this heat. I cook loads of shepherds pies and casseroles in winter but never Summer.

This is only about the 2nd day of heat this year - god knows how many of MN seem to live in the Tropics! Today it's 26° which I regard as being on the warm side. 21° or 22° is not hot.

Shepherds pie or Cottage Pie is great all year round. Chili Con Carne tomorrow. And I drink hot tea all year round too, the only cold drinks I have is

Christ no, YABU! Much too hot for stodge. I cook totally differently in summer - I actually try and not turn the oven on if I can help it!

It's 30 degrees here today - salad nicoise for dinner. Cooked a whole salmon on the bbq last night so we'll have this with the leftovers.

Surely half the fun of summer is DH gets to cook every night on the deck and all I have to do is throw some salad/couscous whatever in a bowl ??

I've made sausage casserole with mash today, inspired by this thread!!!! It was going to be salad, but i can't face it.

Look at me - breaking the rules. :)