Traditional Shepherd's Pie

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Mummy Boome's Traditional ShepherdsPie

8 servings

Ingredients
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 onion, diced
2 carrots, diced
2 stalks celery, diced
2 cloves garlic, crushed
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 tablespoon tomato paste
2 pounds lean ground beef or lamb
2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
1/2 cup beef stock
1 1/2 cups garden peas

Cheesy Mashed Potatoes, recipefollows

Directions

Preheat oven at 400 degrees F.

Add butter and oil to a largeskillet on medium heat. Saute onions, carrots, celery and garlic until tenderfor about 7 to 10 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Once the vegetableshave softened and start to brown a little add the tomato paste and mix evenly.Add the ground beef and cook until beef is no longer pink about 10 minutes. Addthe Worcestershire sauce and beef stock. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.Cook and simmer for another 10 minutes. Mix in peas. Transfer mixture to anoven-proof baking dish and spread evenly. Place potato on top of ground beefmixture and spread out evenly, once the top surface has been covered, rakethrough with a fork so that there are peaks that will brown nicely. Place thedish into the preheated oven and cook until browned about 20 minutes. Spoon outthe shepherd's pie and serve.


Mashed Potatoes
4 pounds Yukon gold potatoes,peeled, quartered
4 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup heavy cream
1 cup grated mature white Cheddar
Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Fill a large saucepan with coldwater and a tablespoon of salt. Add potatoes to the water and bring to a boil.Let potatoes cook until soft about 20 minutes. Once the potatoes are at adesired density, drain the potatoes and place them back into the saucepan formashing. Add butter and cream and begin to mash potatoes into a semi smoothconsistency. Once at desired texture add cheese and mix well. Season with saltand pepper.