How do I make true shepards pie? My new husband is from england and I want to make him some home cooking!?

Any other ENGLISH recipes would be appreciated as well!How do I make true shepards pie? My new husband is from england and I want to make him some home cooking!?
Oh dear! I'm from England and I make shepherds pie this way: use lamb (beef is for ';cottage pie';); brown in in a frying pan. Add chopped onions and fry gently until soft. Add chopped carrot and celery (optional); a little stock and red wine (wine is optional, too), and a chopped, peeled tomato too, if you like, then simmer gently for about one hour. Pile it into an ovenproof serving dish. Make plenty of creamy mashed potato, fluff up the top, then brown it in a hot oven until it is golden and hot.





Try giving him a good Sunday roast, too! With roast potatoes, gravy, and all the trimmings - apple sauce for pork, horseradish/mustard and yorkshire puddings with beef, and bread sauce with chicken or turkey.





Extra: as with all ';national'; dishes, every matriarch has her own way of making them, and swears it's the only way! Shepherds Pie is unquestionably made with lamb - think of the name - and Cottage Pie is the same but made with beef. Another respondent was right: ask how his mother makes it! You will find even the best chefs in the UK say their version is the best. (Thanks also to the person who said I should know!) Variations may include garlic, which I love, and perhaps mixed herbs, but these probably wouldn't have been used in ordinary family cooking. The same goes for the red wine, which I think adds richness and a good depth of flavour. The pie used to be a good way of using up any leftover meat from the Sunday roast. Adding vegetables makes it go further and adds more flavour.





Pasties, quoted here, are presumably Cornish Pasties, and the same rules apply. Originally they were made for the miners (of tin) to take down the mines for lunch, and a thick edge of pastry was required for their dirty hands to hold while they ate them and then discard. They were meant to contain a whole meal: meat, potatoes and vegetables. Generally, most Cornish cooks stipulate that the meat (beef) should be raw, as should the potatoes, swede or turnip and onions. Use plenty of seasoning.





Really, I do agree that you should ask your husband (and his mother!) what he would like! Other English suggestions could include apple pie with custard (creme anglaise in the cookery books); fruit crumble (apple, rhubarb, etc) with custard; sausage and mash; fish and chips... Please feel free to email me if you'd like any recipes; English cooking, as done in the home, is actually very good!How do I make true shepards pie? My new husband is from england and I want to make him some home cooking!?
The answer supplied will work-you normally would not put in any wine (Brits don't), and many use regular ground beef, which will speed up the recipe significantly.





Other good Brit recipes (let's face it, they are not known for thier cuisine!) would be meat pasties (similar to pastry stuffed meat pies that many people around the world have)stuffed fowl recipes, and many Brits adore Indian cuisine. Ask your husbands' family what he likes, and get some suggestions from them as well. Get on the Yahoo UK site and ask!
Tim knows what he's talking about. I've seen it with ground beef as well, but that is not true shepard's pie. Pasties are awesome too!
sdarizona offered a great recipe, but I think ';traditional'; shepards pie calls for lamb - generally the leftovers from a leg of lamb dinner.
Bangers and Mash which is sausage with mashed potatoes.
Ask his mom (or mum!) for her recipe. You will earn brownie points with her and will be sure to make the type of shepherd's pie he thinks authentic. There are so many ';British'; recipes floating around!
I recently saw an episode of Paula Deen's Southern Home Cooking show on the Food Network. She and her husband were in London recently and she loved the Shephard's Pie. She featured it on her show, ';Pub Fare';. I think it might be authentic English pie.


Go to FoodNetwork.Com and go her tv show and you can easily find the recipe. It is quite long and might be easier to just print it out.
1 tablespoon olive oil


1 pound diced short rib meat with the fat removed


1 onion, diced


1 large carrot, diced


1/2 cup beef stock


1/2 bottle red wine


1 potato, diced


Salt and freshly ground black pepper


3 cups mashed potatoes


1 tablespoon melted butter


1/2 cup chopped mixed herbs (parsley, chives, chervil)





In a medium Dutch oven over high heat, add oil and rib meat. Cook meat for 4 to 5 minutes or until browned on all sides. Add the onions and carrots and saute until softened. Add the stock, wine and potatoes, cover and let simmer for 2 hours or until the meat is very tender.


Preheat an oven to 375 degrees F.





Spoon the stew into 2-ounce serving cups and top each with 1 to 2 tablespoons of mashed potatoes. Brush potatoes with butter and place into oven for 7 to 8 minutes or until mashed potatoes are browned. Garnish with herbs and serve immediately.
My grandmother makes it the following way: chop meat any two veggies on top of chop meat than mashed potatoes on top, so its 4 layers and let me tell you its GREAT!!!
okay first off get some ground beef, stick it in the pan. make sure its all broken up put sliced green peppers or onions. u can even put garlic powder and onion powder to make it have some flavor to the meat....when its done...make your mask potatoes....get a loaf pan or a deep long roaster spread out your ground beef on the bottom and when the mash potatoes are done....spread dem on top make suure it covers all the ground beef...dont be scared to put a lot of mashed potatoes....after that if you got parsley or paprika sprinkle a lil of that on the top...stick it in the oven on 360 degrees and leave it in there for 10-15 mins or until u feel like u should take it out.