EzraS wrote:
Temeraire wrote:
^ I am tempted to make a cottage pie today (beef mince).
When it is done I will fly you some over Ezzy

I'll be drooling until it arrives. I looked it up, looks scrumptious. When I read the recipe for "proper English cottage pie", I found it amusing that one of the ingredients was Italian seasoning.
I throw in all sorts these days as it is available.
We never had any fancy seasoning in the kitchen when I was a youngster - white pepper was the most exotic thing on the table.
Cottage pie was made from the scaps of a sunday roast if you were lucky enough to have beef of course.
My mum made it with cheap minced beef from the butchers - which I normally had to go fetch along with spare ribs for the dog as they were so cheap or sometimes free.