Well, it was a bit 'George's Marvellous Medicine', to be honest, Molesworth, which is a chiz because I have little chance of recreating it. But it was as follows:
1lb lamb mince
1 big onion & 1 little one, very very finely diced as dd is onion-phobic.
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 large carrot, diced
1 tbsp plain flour
1 generous pinch cinnamon
1 generous pinch dried mixed herbs
a good shake of Worcestershire sauce
a generous blob of tomato ketchup (in absence of tomato puree!)
1/2 pt beef stock
salt & pepper to taste
Mash made with 900g Sainsbury's ordinary white potatoes, butter, bit of full fat milk.
Brown the lamb in the bottom of a heavy pan. Then tip the lamb into a colander for all the fat to drain off. Add 1tbsp oil to the pan and cook the onions, garlic & carrot gently over a moderate heat until the onions are translucent. Return the lamb to the pan, stir through onion etc. Sprinkle over the flour, cinnamon & herbs, and add Worcs. sauce and ketchup. Pour over hot beef stock, stir well, cover and bring up to boiling point. Turn down to a very low simmer and leave until it's cooked (which in my case was long enough to peel & cook the potatoes, however long that is). Check seasoning & put it in whichever dish you're going to use, and top with mashed potato.
I made mine in the morning and then put it in the oven for the children's meal at 5pm... from larder cold it took about 30 minutes at 180 degrees (although I do have a pretty fast fan oven).
Must say though that I set out to make this MN version but realised we didn't have any red wine in the house (how can this be??) so had to improvise.