Cottage Pie / Shepherd's Pie

Ingredients:

Filling:

• 2lbs of ground beef 80/20
• Stew, broth, or 2 bullion cubes
• Tomato paste
• Celery
• Carrots
• A bottle of Cabernet
• Small amount of thyme
• 1 onion

Pie top:

• 3  russet potatoes
• Two eggs
• Cheese (Asiago)
• Butter

Directions:

• Brown meat
• Put potatoes on boil
• Shred all the carrot,onion,and celery
• Shred those directly into the meat
• Add broth/bullion to meat, reduce fluid
• spread tomato paste evenly
• stir and add thyme
• Add wine (whole bottle), reduce

Move to potatoes

• Drain water
• Add cold goods while hot
• Cheese, butter, and egg
• Mix

Lay mashed potatoes on your meat

Bake at 400 for 15 mins

Then broil for 15 mins

The reduction of the broth and wine takes the most time but both are important.  That is why I separated the two tasks of the pie top and the filling.