Combination Shepherd’s pie and Cottage pie
A combination shepherd’s pie and cottage pie is called what? I have no idea. I’m also topping it with mashed sweet potato rather than potato so it’s truly behind a hybrid, it is an all out mutated mess of a pie but I guarantee you this tastes the bomb.
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Recipe
- 1 Lamb shoulder (deboned and rolled)
- 1 cross section Osso bucco
- 3 Onions (sliced)
- 1 Carrot (diced)
- 2 sticks Celery (diced)
- 1 cup Beef stock
- ½ cup Red wine
- 1 Sweet potato diced
- 1 tablespoon Sour cream
- 1 tablespoon Coon cheese (shredded)
- 1 cup Peppercorn gravy (instant)
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Place the onions, celery, and carrot in the slow cooker and then add the beef and lamb. Slosh in the stock and wine and set the slow cooker to six hours.
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When the meat is cooked shred the beef and lamb together and add some of the onion, carrot and celery into a large mixing bowl.
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Cook the sweet potato in a microwave oven until it is soft and then process with a stick blender. Add in the sour cream and cheese.
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Make up some instant peppercorn gravy and add it to the meat and vegetables and mix.
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In a pyrex baking dish add the meat and gravy mix.
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Top with the sweet potato and then bake in an oven at 200 °C for 25 minutes.
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Serve with steamed vegetables.
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Shoot a photograph and eat the pie.
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Wash the dishes and then write the recipe.
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Write a blog post and hope that your food loving friends share the recipe on social media.
Sweet potato is sloppier than mashed potato so that’s why I use the microwave oven. I don’t use any extra water and just wait for the sweet potato to soften. The alternative is to bake the sweet potato for a smoky flavour.
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Questions and answers
What do you call a combination of a shepherd’s pie and cottage pie?
I was thinking Cottherd’s pie or Shepage pie. Given I’ve used sweet potato, it could be healthful or wellness inspired Cottherd’s pie or Shepage pie given sweet potato is all the rage.
Why do people mix up shepherd’s pie and cottage pie?
I don’t know. A shepherd’s pie is made with lamb and a cottage pie is made with beef.
What’s your favourite?
In a meat pie I really like a cottage pie. For a meal, I really like a shepherd’s pie especially served with vegetables.
Could you do this with a pressure cooker rather than a slow cooker?
Yes, it would be easy in a pressure cooker. I just like the whole ritual of the slow cooker.
What did you have for lunch today?
I made an English muffin cheeseburger
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Definitely don’t call it sheepage.
I agree Jeff, Sheepage just doesn’t fly, although it would be easy to remember and funny.
Ohmigawd, the osso bucco is making me drool! 🙂 And shepard’s pie is my total weakness! Yum, yum, yum!!
By the way, I never asked…what is “Lummy”? In “Yummy Lummy”?
It’s an amazing name for a blog, but I don’t know what “lummy” means. Edu-mah-cate me, puh-lease!
My family name is Lum and as a kid I was called Lummy.
Omg, duh! I totally missed that! Haha! Cool! Thanks for eplaioning! :o))
My youngest brother got called Yummy Lummy by girls and when I started food blogging a friend at work suggested it, I figured, why not.
It has a wonderful ring to it……which of course made me ask. Ha! ♥︎
Good night you! It’s tomorrow night there…and it’s 2:38 am here. I have to be at the frickin’ courthouse in 5 hours. Bleh!
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This combination pie was really very nice. The meat just melted.
that is so wonderful……damn. :o))
Sounds delicious, Gary.
Thanks very much Christine 😃
MMmm Gary you’ve hit on just exactly what I want to eat right now! 😀
It’s such a nice pie for a cold winter evening Lorraine 😃😋
I do like the Shepage Pie idea!
Thank you very much Michele 😃😃😃
How about ‘Shepherd’s Palace Pie’? Sounds like a natural 🙂
That’s a fantastic name. Thanks John.
I really thought shepherd’s pie was made with beef all this while… So then it’s cottage pie then. Usually I’m not a fan of sweet potato. But one time I had sweet potato mash with bits of bacon – that was amazing. Maybe an idea for your next pie, Gaz 😀
Mmm…Mabel, you’re on to something there with the bacon pieces in the sweet potato. I have half the pie leftover, there would be bacon pieces added 😋
Fried bacon pieces. You can never go wrong with that 😄 Let me know how it goes if you give that combo a whirl. This is one combo where the sweet and savoury go so well together 🙂
Don’t forget it also has cheese 😋😃👍
Fried bacon pieces. You can never go wrong with that 😄 Let me know how it goes if you give that combo a whirl. This is one combo where the sweet and savoury go so well together 🙂
This does look good! Well, except for the corn. I don’t like corn. I enjoy reading your recipes, I learn so many things. I had no idea of the difference between shepherd and cottage pies. I thought all tater topped casseroles were shepherd’s pie! I also have another question. What on earth is a stick blender???? A fork? A wooden spoon? Is it like calling walking ‘shank’s mare’ or ‘sailing by the ash breeze’ using an oar?
Thanks Kris
A stick blender is a motorised blending blade that you can stick into pots and bowls rather than adding food to a blender.
Check out this video https://youtu.be/wq-XhBE_M7I and at about the 2 minute mark you can see what I mean.