Untraditional Cottage Pie

Cottage pie is normally made from mince beef, carrots, onions, beef stock, potatoes, thyme, worcestershire sauce and tomato puree. I've used this as a basis for this recipe but just added some extra ingredients here and there and came up with this delicious Three2Tea version:

Ingredients:

• 500-750g Minced Beef
• 4 Medium Sized carrots
• 4 Small Onions
• 2 fresh beetroots
• One Tomato
• 2 Medium sized mushrooms
• 2 Cloves Garlic
• Potatoes - roughly 300g
• Handful of fresh basil leaves
• Roquefort cheese
• 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 2 tbsp Tomato sauce
• 400ml Chicken stock
• A pinch of cayenne pepper
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Butter and milk for mash

Directions:

1. Dice up your vegetables, fry the beetroot, onions, carrots and garlic in some oil until onions have softened.
2. Add in the mince beef and fry until mince is nearly fully browned.
3. Add the chicken stock in, along with the cayenne pepper, tomato sauce, worcestershire sauce, tomato and mushrooms.
4. Simmer on low heat for 40 minutes.
5. Boil the potatoes in a separate pot until done. Mash with milk and butter (add enough of each to get the consistency you like)
6. Preheat oven to 180 degrees celsius.
7. After 40 minutes, season minced beef and vegetables to taste, pour this into a oven proof dish and spoon the mash on top of it.
8. Sprinkle basil and cheese on top of the mash.
9. Bake in oven for 20 minutes or until lightly brown on top.

Simple right? This will feed 4 small stomachs or two very hungry stomachs!
That's it!

Satsuma-imo.

Our Homegrown Vegetables!

I just wanted to share some pictures with you of some vegetables that we are growing. We are not the best gardeners, in fact we are total newbies, we just plant the seeds, water them and hope that they grow! Our potato harvest was good, although we had quite a few rotten ones, we blame the heavy rain! I love all the bright coloured ones, the purple one is my fave!

These were not as big as we thought they were going to be, but a good harvest none the less. Don't ask me what variety these are since I can't remember!

Next some purple celery!

Looks amazing to me, I wonder how they taste??

The tomatoes are growing! I'm super excited about these, they look a good size as well!

Here are some Cox apples as well, not my fave apple but still it's grown on our garden!

All these are organic, which makes us even more proud!

Satsuma-imo.

Papaya, Tomato and Potato Soup

Healthy Papaya, Tomato and Potato soup!

Now why would you make this soup I hear you ask? Well let me list the health benefits of each ingredient.