Home grown meal #2

Shepherd's Pie (or Cottage pie if using beef)

Instead of serving vegetables on the side, I include them into the meal.

500gm lamb (either diced or minced)
1 onion
1 clove garlic
3/4 cup meat gravy or stock
2 T tomato sauce (or if using whole foods I'd add a couple of tomatoes, sugar and salt)
2 carrots sliced
3-4 x silverbeet/spinach leaves (or other greens such as brocolli, cauliflower or green beans etc)
5-6 potatoes for mashing

Cook up potatoes and mash.
Cook up onions and garlic till soft, add the meat and completely brown, add in the rest of the ingredients and simmer till cooked through.
Put meat mixture into a casserole dish, top with the mashed potato and bake for 20mins.

A vegetarian version can be made by replacing the meat with any dried beans (my usual recipe calls for red kidney beans which is really tasty, but in the name of eating home grown, you could replace that with any dried beans or peas that you grow and store).

(Simon has visions of in the future needing to jump on his bike with trailer on back to go to the farm where we get our sheep from and riding home again - probably a whole day's riding lol).