Cottage Pie/shepherds Pie

[chokkie]

Can someone remind me of the difference, please. next Saturday, we're going to have loads of left-over cooked lamb shoulder meat and want to turn it into a pie. which is the one where you use cooked meat?
Cheers, Chox.

[tiggerblue10]

Cottage Pie is made with beef mince and shepherds pie is made with lamb mince.

[tonyav]

I think shepherds pie contains minced lamb.

[Jackdaw33]

Cottage pie made with beef, shepherd's pie with lamb.

[Mamyalynne]

Easiest way to remember is to think what shepherds look after.

[jourdain2]

As above.

[Old_Geezer]

Cottage pie is made of cottage, shepherds' pie is made of shepards. All meat is cooked, very few dishes serve it as raw mince.

[Jackdaw33]

Talking of raw mince, has anyone tried steak tartare? Many a time in France I've wanted to try it but never had the courage.

[anneasquith]

No. No I'm not eating raw beef, but i believe it is delicious prepared properly .

[Islay]

Yes jackdaw in Belgium many times, it's an acquired taste.

[chokkie]

Thanks folks, appreciate your help. So it's shepherds pie for a few days next week then! Cheers Chox.

[jourdain2]

Yes, JD - first time by mistake, I admit. The meat is actually 'cooked' by the acids used. Not my 1st choice but edible. Escargots were undertaken with trepidation, but proved OK (if chewy). I drew the line at frogs' legs because I had read about how they were sourced.
Biggest mistake (very earl.y on) was mistaking 'cervelles' for 'crevettes'. You don't make that mistake twice, believe me! I'll never forget those 2 tiny brains presented to me glistening in a jus. I'd ordered it, so I had to eat some of them. :)

[Jackdaw33]

Had some cervelles once when I was 13, quite liked them. Much later I had a dodgy dish of crevettes and was frightened to leave the hotel for 24 hours.

[Jackdaw33]

I have never had frogs' legs, nor have the vast majority of French people.