Cottage Pie

[dtaai-maai]

Never had bread and scrape, but had bread and dripping regularly as a youngster. The mind boggles now.

Was also regularly threatened with "bread and pullit" when I asked what was for tea...

[chaspul]

Scrape is same thing DM, beef drippings. Always a fight with my brothers for the Jelly!
Modern day butchers remove too much of the suet for cooking the beef correctly in the old fashioned way. Avoided the word properly, so not to offend our US cousins, on the cooking of English Roast Beef.
Chas

[Takiap]

Scrape is same thing DM, beef drippings. Always a fight with my brothers for the Jelly!
Modern day butchers remove too much of the suet for cooking the beef correctly in the old fashioned way. Avoided the word properly, so not to offend our US cousins, on the cooking of English Roast Beef.
Chas

Not sure how popular it is/was between the general population in South Africa, but my Mom used plaster slices of bread and toast with it, and then smother it with pepper. Never appealed to me though.

And, you're right about butchers removing to much of the fat nowadays. The "I want to live forever" brigade sure go out of their way to mess things up for the rest of us.

[Takiap]

Having a look on the net, I see many recipes call for tomato sauce or tomato paste. I notice in the picture JW posted, there seems to be tomato sauce or paste as well. Is this the norm for cottage pie? In SA it's made with a regular gravy such as Bisto.

[image]

like someone already said..its peasant food..home recipe to make rations go further..basically meat mince and potato baked ..whatever else you put ..is what you got

[Takiap]

like someone already said..its peasant food..home recipe to make rations go further..basically meat mince and potato baked ..whatever else you put ..is what you got

If cottage pie made with lamb mince, mixed veg, mashed potatoes, and topped with shredded cheese is peasant food, I'd hate to know what category rice porridge falls into.


Let's see......

A pack of minced lamb - +/- 300 baht
5 large spuds - +/- 100 baht
Mixed veg - +/- 40 baht
Butter - +/- 10 baht
Block of cheddar cheese - +/- 180 baht


Total - 630 baht


To hell with living the high life. No more rice soup and noodles for me. From here on in I'm going to be a cottage pie peasant.

[image]

god your a [Mod Edit - please watch your language. This is an open forum that can be read by all age groups] takiab..its not peasant food in thailand is it!!..not sure what country you come from,,but im sure there is something similar

[STEVE G]

Having a look on the net, I see many recipes call for tomato sauce or tomato paste. I notice in the picture JW posted, there seems to be tomato sauce or paste as well. Is this the norm for cottage pie? In SA it's made with a regular gravy such as Bisto.

I remember that when my mother used to make cottage pie when I was a kid in the seventies, she used to put tomatoes in it. I think chopped up tinned tomatoes were used and it gave the sauce a distinctive taste to shepards pie which she made without them.

[Arcadian]

Having a look on the net, I see many recipes call for tomato sauce or tomato paste. I notice in the picture JW posted, there seems to be tomato sauce or paste as well. Is this the norm for cottage pie? In SA it's made with a regular gravy such as Bisto.

I remember that when my mother used to make cottage pie when I was a kid in the seventies, she used to put tomatoes in it. I think chopped up tinned tomatoes were used and it gave the sauce a distinctive taste to shepards pie which she made without them.

National varieties of the same sort of food really, sounds more like moussaka.

[pharvey]

National varieties of the same sort of food really, sounds more like moussaka.

Ehhh.... Moussaka sounding the same as Cottage Pie?? You must have a bizarre recipe book Arcadian!!

[STEVE G]

....sounds more like moussaka.

In 1970's Nottingham, we wouldn't have eaten it if it was called moussaka! Apparently, in the 1950's pizza was first sold in the UK as 'Italian Welsh rarebit'.

[pharvey]

....sounds more like moussaka.

In 1970's Nottingham, we wouldn't have eaten it if it was called moussaka! Apparently, in the 1950's pizza was first sold in the UK as 'Italian Welsh rarebit'.

Don't go there Steve.... Dodgy ground taking the p*ss out of Welsh Rarebit...... My Mam is just a phone call away!!

[GLCQuantum]

image said..

god your a [Mod Edit - please watch your language. This is an open forum that can be read by all age groups] takiab..its not peasant food in thailand is it!!

Oh you mods really have to spoil it for everyone don't you . I always enjoy reading posts from people getting worked up over the silliest of things. Normally a fairly new chap that does it. Damn you all and your cottage pies/banana puddings.

[pharvey]

image said..

god your a [Mod Edit - please watch your language. This is an open forum that can be read by all age groups] takiab..its not peasant food in thailand is it!!

Oh you mods really have to spoil it for everyone don't you . I always enjoy reading posts from people getting worked up over the silliest of things. Normally a fairly new chap that does it. Damn you all and your cottage pies/banana puddings.

You mention Lava Bread and I will have to ****** your sorry **** you complete and utter ***** ....

Understood blue?

P.S. And you can forget the ******** Banana pudding, it was ******** cr@p!!

[GLCQuantum]

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A little bit of my pizza shot out my nose then...

Edit: Does the 5 second rule (for food dropping on the floor and it still being edible) still count if it came out of your nose. Too late now of course but just for future reference...