IT'S A HOT AND SWEATY DAY here in London. Meaning basically it's not far over 20C. But NOTHING is designed for heat, cold, damp or dry in this country where the railways once announced closure due to "the wrong kind of snow" (not to mention "leaves on the line" ~ yes autumn leaves, the kind that fall each and every year...ONE OF MY BABIES GOT STUCK to the bottle-tape! I'm glad I found her. Had to stick it with huge swathes of gaffer-type tape and Bashful or one of them I discovered yesterday STUCK BY THE SHOULDER to it. She quickly pinged away when I released her.
I'M STILL COLLECTING INSPIRATION for my pie. (Thanks Nicole.) I did know cottage pie was beef and shepherd's lamb... Tesco's supermarket aparently don't. They sell industrial "Finest Beef Shepherd's Pie" straight for the oven. How very vulgar of them...
OK this has to be quick. I'm on a detour. Have to get back. No news... good news. The local council's computers HAD to go down right on the day I FINALLY dragged myself in there to settle their botched accounts of me... (typical!)...
PS O YEAH and I now have a massive bleach collection for my toilet...
VIDEO:
LEONA LEWIS: BETTER IN TIME GMTV PERFORMANCE
This song has been going round and round my head... I couldn't post it up because some idiot(s) who have posted the proper video to Youtube had "embedding disabled by request"~ duh!?! Why do people do that?? Anybody know..??
Oh, that pie recipe sounds good gleds. I make my own version, which is very similar to the one you make. I use ground beef (it's typical here)...I fry the beef, onion, some garlic. I boil veggies up separately (including broccoli)...I throw in whatever I feel like or have on hand. I even add cabbage sometimes. Then I put the veggies in with the beef and add a wee bit of Worcestershire sauce, V-8 juice, Bovril, s & p. Finish off with the potatoes and I sprinkle a bit of paprika on top.
ReplyDeleteCatchy song..she reminds me of Mariah Carey.
Mince pie is the ultimate comfort food. Actually, you Brits are pretty good at comfort food. I suppose Canadians are as well, we have, for instance; Montreal smoked meat sandwiches, Montreal sugar pie (side note: google butter tart and start drooling) hmmmm... now I am trying to think of other things that are quintessentially Canadian. STUMPED. Oh! Mounties! Shit, just remembered you can't eat them....
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loved Leona`s vedeo, she has a great voice, unfortunately, i listen to that song too many times at work!!!
ReplyDeletebut she has a great voice, absolutely amazing!!!
Debs: I've never had shepherd's/cottage pie with chunks instead of ground so I thought I'd make it see how it turned out... don't really like the pastry in traditional pies so potato topping sounded like a good idea instead...
ReplyDeleteEileen: Britain excells in stodge, you're right!!
Sofia: Leona Rules. She is far superior to that nasty MARIAH CAREY!!!
What a nice picture collage.
ReplyDeleteThe poor miniature furball! I’ll be that hurt!
ReplyDeleteHave a grand weekend.
So what's the right kind of snow?
ReplyDeleteI'm betting you disturbed your furbabies playing lets play stick up*!*
Meemsync: I found it online under "roborovski"!
ReplyDeleteNick: I don't know about hurt: she looked exceedingly offended!!
Bimbimbie: they probably enjoy playing games with me, the swines!
I like beef, cannot eat lamb. Don't know why. Must be the nursery rhyme connotations. Yes i'm weird. LOL
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