On Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at 5:12:12 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
> Actually, dinner last night but same tonight as it turned out so
> good.
> I made a cottage pie. First time in about a year or so.
> I know that most here have made it and actual recipes vary. This
> is what I made yesterday:
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>
> Cooked a bit more than 1 pound of ground beef along with 2 medium
> onions, chopped and some Worcestershire sauce. Chopped up all the
> beef then drained off the grease.
>
> Meanwhile, I sautéed about 7 ounces of fresh sliced white
> mushrooms in butter.
>
> When beef was done, I stirred in the mushrooms and mixed them in
> with the beef. All this I put in the bottom of my casserole dish
> (8 x 8 x 4 corelle baking dish)
>
> Topped that with about 7 ounces of frozen mixed vegetables and a
> drained can of "reduced sodium" green beans.
>
> Then, I made a chicken gravy. Made a roux with butter and flour,
> then stirred in homemade chicken broth to make a medium thick
> gravy. Poured that on top of the meat and veggies.
>
> Finally, I topped it with a decent amount of mashed red
> potatoes...about 2" high. All this filled up the casserole dish
> to the top.
>
> As everything was already cooked, I just wanted to bake it to
> very hot. I put it into a 400F oven without top lid and left it
> for 40 minutes. At that time, I checked on it and it was bubbling
> hot and the mashed potatoes had a slight brown crust on top.
> finished.
>
> I took it out and put the lid on to let it slowly cool down a
> bit.
>
> One of the tastiest cottage pies I've ever made. I planned to
> freeze some for future easy meals but I suspect none of this will
> ever see my freezer. So good, I have no problem with repeat
> meals.
>
> Anyway....a good darn meal:
> - healthy portion of the cottage pie with S&P
> - small side (on same plate) of "Gramma's applesauce"
> - one soft roll or slice of white bread with butter.
>
> I should really make these more often. This is the first one in
> about a year. YUM!

Sounds like a good pie. Any kind of pie is a good pie. Yesterday we went to an Italian restaurant. The server said the special was braised short-ribs. Braised short-ribs are one of my favorite dishes so that was a no-brainer. What I got was a two and a half slab of what looked like ribs. I was not expecting that but I done ate it anyway without complaint. I like ribs anyway. It looks like the cook might have overdone it with the sear but I done ate it anyway without complaint. Burnt food is okay with me.

In my awesome opinion, all Italian restaurants should serve some good ole American meat dish for us folks that don't much care for pasta, pasta, pasta..

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