I love shepherd’s pie with a passion.To me, there’s nothing more comforting than the combination of meat and vegetables topped off with smooth rich mashed potatoes.Shepherd’s pie will always be one of my favorite foods, one that makes me feel all-is-right-with-the-world-kinda-fuzzy.

Serve me a shepherd’s pie and I am one happy person.Which is what Mike did, in the thick of winter, on a particularly heavy snow day.He told me to cozy out, and watch the snow fall, wrapped up in a blanket, while he made me dinner.

Then he one-upped himself and told me that he was going to make me not one, but two(!) shepherd’s pies so I could do a little compare and contrast.The best shepherd’s pie It was pretty exciting, I have to admit.Mike picked out two British recipes: Jamie Oliver’s and Gordon Ramsay’s.

Going into it, we both thought that Ramsay’s recipe was going to be the clear winner, but it turned out that we were both blown away by Oliver’s.It was so good I had to make it again and again and again.I’ve since put it up against other pies and this one really is the best.

Lamb is the real shepherd’s pie Purists will say that shepherd’s pie is made with lamb and cottage pie is made with beef.In America, most people refer to cottage pie as shepherd’s pie.I love cottage pies because that’s what I grew up with, but honestly, lamb shepherd’s pie is so much better.

Plus, it makes sense that shepherd’s pies are made with lamb because shep

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