Shepherds Pie Potatoes

Ingredients:-

1 pack lean mine (500g should do)

Splash water and beef oxo cube

As many baking potatoes as people to serve

Chopped up:-

Carrot

Celery

Onion

and any other vegetables you want to include.

Preheat oven to 200 degrees, gas mark 6

Prick pototaoes and microwave according to size.

Heat oil in frying pan, add chopped vegetables and fry until soft. Add mince and cook til brown. Add splash of water and crumble the oxo cube into the pan, mix with mince.

When potatoes are done, cut in half and scoop out potato into seperate dish. Mash potato with knob of butter.

Fill each skin with the mince mixture and top with the mash. Sprinkle a small amount of cheese and put in the oven for around 20 minutes.

Choppie's Lasagne

Ingredients:-

Chopped Vegetables:-
Onions
Celery
Carrots
Mushrooms
Garlic

Pinch dried herbs
800g lean minced beef (fresh)

1 tbsp Tomato puree

1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

1 Tin chopped tomatoes

Sauce (if not using jar of lasagne sauce for quickness)

25g Butter

25g Flour

300ml Milk

Pinch nutmeg

60 Cheddar Cheese

30g Grated parmesan cheese

Non cook lasagne sheets

Preheat oven to  200 degrees

Heat olive oil in a hot plan and fry the vegetables until slightly soft. Add herbs worcestershire sauce and salt and pepper. Add mince. Add tomato puree and continue to cook until the mince is brown. Add tomatoes and leave to simmer.

For cheese sauce melt butter in a saucepan (not non stick) before adding the flour with a wooden spoon and stirring to form a paste. Over a gentle heat, add first third of milk, whisking to prevent lumps. Add rest of the milk a third at a time, whisking as you go. Season with salt and pepper and nutmeg. Allow sauce to cook out and thicken, remove from heat and add cheese.

Spoon half meat into dish and place pasta sheet on top. Add just under half cheese sauce and spread evenly before adding second layer of meat. Add second layer of pasta and pour over remaining sauce. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese. Clean edge of dish and bake for 20-25 minute or until golden brown.