Fbelgian Food Ground Beef With Mash Potatoes
In exactly 44 days, my mom will land at Los Angeles Int'fifty airport. It'south an event the Farklepants' household is already mentally preparing for, if zero else, than to cross off the days on our kitchen calendar to see precisely how much more than fourth dimension we have left to bring the cleanliness & system of our flat upward to military Cecilia'south standards.
Information technology's no easy feat. My mother, bless her centre, is a densely woven tapestry of backbreaking cocky-imposed rules & regulations, enforced daily by a deep, unrelenting desire for order & control. Flying by the seat of your pants, which is pretty much the mantra in our house, is something my elderly mom has a hard fourth dimension coping with. She unwittingly, and with the best of intentions, attempts to smash & stuff our souls into her daily mold of how things ought to be, and at times this collides with the chaotic habits of my free-thinking creative family. She likewise takes planning and organization to uncharted heights. Y'all know, the kind of heights Martha Stewart can only dream of reaching with her hand-carved & antiquated Scandinavian pinewood ladder.
On the other hand, underneath that regimented ice cap of self-imposed order and control, hides the woman that walks into a grocery store in Espana and buys a box of cat food by pointing her alphabetize finger into her wide-open gaping mouth and speaking the words 'meow meow'. The same adult female who has mastered the fine art of overly dramatic Japanese Kabuki-manner facial expressions to anything that she finds a) odd, b) inappropriate, c) giddy or d) all of the above (*)… It sometimes brings me to the brink of embarrassment, evoking a sheepish smile and a spontaneous "I'm sorry, she'south not from around hither" response.
(*) Per instance, she once addressed an unassuming diner waitress with a Maori battle cry when the poor woman came around to kindly refill her beverage and caught my mother off-baby-sit. You see, Cecilia doesn't believe in wasting any nutrient or drink (and isn't that a good Christian virtue?!), and so even though she is total, her ain set of imaginary rules mandates that she MUST end whatever is presented to her. Besides… she did NOT want whatever ice in her drinkable!!!!
This yr, since our apartment is at full capacity and my mom fully expects me to lodge her in my house regardless of that fact, I tapped into my professional travel network & award points and was able to conjure free lodging for an epic 7-day road trip through the Southwest The states. It'southward an take a chance we're both excited for, if information technology weren't for my machine having trouble with its right forepart wheel of a sudden. Nosotros don't even have enough coin to make it through the calendar month at times, let alone that I'm now having to face a dreaded trip to the mechanic, and so he can have a wait at it and tell me it'll be $637.41 or so to fix information technology… Hurray! Let me write you a check. Correct. This. Infinitesimal. I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I guess God volition take care of that predicament in due time. Note to cocky: have religion.
If our fiscal situation was a person, information technology would probably be a circus freak. Perhaps even the Elephant Man. Or Quasimodo. I picture this is what mom went through as well as a single parent with a delinquent ex-husband. I pretty much spend my entire days worrying in anxiety bitter every penny in half, whilst scouring Pinterest in search of hearty rib-sticking meals that cost mere pennies. Our protein-plan exists out of chicken & kielbasa, and the occasional ground beefiness. We haven't had ribs or a juicy roast in a practiced long while, and steak & fish have vanished off of our carte entirely due to their price tag. The thought of Thanksgiving & Christmas dinner currently gives me the willies. Pray that past then, nosotros'll be blessed by the manus of the forces that may.
Mom cooked a lot of ground beef recipes, and I do besides. One of my honey cheap(er) dinners is 'Cottage Pie'. It's flavorful, hearty and it feeds my family of three hungry men + yours truly for pennies on the dollar. To add bulk, I apply a gaggle of root vegetables that caramelize slowly, which gives the whole dish some other depth of flavor that I find very tasty. The recipe below fills my big 15' Club cast iron pan + a smaller oven dish, and information technology typically feeds us twice.
COTTAGE PIE WITH ROOT VEGETABLES
(a la Hungry Belgian)
For the beefiness mixture:
3 lbs of ground beef, at to the lowest degree fifteen% fatty
1 onion, diced
2 rutabagas (or 2 small), diced
3 carrots, diced
ii parsnips, diced
1 celery root, diced
iii-4 ribs of celery, diced
4 cloves of garlic, minced
1 6oz can of tomato paste
A handful of thyme & rosemary tied together in a packet
A few dashes of 'kitchen bouquet' browning liquid or Worcestershire sauce
3 Tbsp of flour
1 16oz bottle of Stout beer or a dark beer of your liking
Common salt & pepper to taste
I use a Dutch oven to cook the filling, but you tin can employ any heavy big pan. Start by dicing the vegetables into even dice so they all melt at the more or less the same speed. Mince the garlic and have everything ready to become.
Showtime by heating up your pan over medium-high heat. When hot, add the ground beef and a few dashes of browning liquid, and crumble while browning. When it's all browned, take information technology out of your pan and ready aside. Drain some of the fat, merely exit some so we tin can caramelize the vegetables in it.
Turn the estrus down to medium-low, add all of your diced vegetables (excl. garlic) and let them slowly caramelize a chip for 30 min or and so, stirring regularly to achieve an even browning.
When vegetables are browned, add beefiness back to the pan and plough estrus to medium-loftier. Add tomato paste and brown the love apple paste with the vegetables & beef for 2-three minutes. Then sprinkle a few tablespoons of flour over the lot, and brownish some other ane-2 minutes. Your pan will be unsightly on the bottom, just don't worry, this crud adds a ton of flavor!
When mixture appears well browned, after iii-4 minutes, add beer and scrape all of the tasty bits off of the bottom of your pan over medium-loftier heat. Add minced garlic, rosemary & thyme packet, then add salt & pepper to gustation. Turn rut to medium, and let the mixture reduce & thicken for another 20-30 minutes. If too thick, add some water or beef broth. If likewise thin, go along simmering and I promise it will reduce further. When it'southward washed, take rosemary/thyme parcel out of the pan and allow the mixture to cool a chip.
For the cheddar mashed potatoes topping:
5 lbs of Yukon gold potatoes
4-six Tbsp of butter
Approx 1-one.5 cups of milk
1 loving cup of grated white cheddar
1 tsp of grated horseradish (not horseradish sauce!) (completely optional)
Skin, cube & boil potatoes until soft. While the potatoes are cooking, warm the milk & butter in the microwave until melted & combined. Add together common salt & pepper to milk mixture, per your preference.
When potatoes are soft, drain them and mash them as usual. They will be lumpy, which is what I like best. Add warmed milk mixture to mashed potatoes a little a time, until you lot achieve a soft simply form mash and the milk mixture is well-incorporated. You may have to use a flake more or less.
Add grated cheddar & horseradish (if using), and fold until blended. Your irish potato mash should be business firm and not likewise soft.
Butter or grease your oven dish(es) and spread all of the beefiness mixture on the lesser(s). Top the beef with the mashed potatoes to fully cover the beef layer. My personal cottage pie math is, is that I like to have 2/three beef mixture and 1/3 potatoes on height. You tin exercise half/half, it's whatever y'all prefer, actually. With a fork, make a few lines or crimps in the potato layer, so that when it brow in the oven, you'll go crispy edges on those ridges. Alternatively, yous tin also piping your mashed potatoes on top of the beef mixture 'duchesse'-style.
Broil in a 375F oven for approx. 30-45 min until the edges of the potatoes are well browned. Serve hot, with a pint of Guinness and an Irish joke or two.
Bon appetit!
Source: https://thehungrybelgian.com/2014/08/28/cottage-pie/
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