The busy Mom's Easy Quick Shepherd's Pie

I always start by peeling the potatoes and putting them to boil as this is the longest part of the recipe.

So I peel them using my handy vegetable peeler and then chop them into little bits with a kitchen knife. I find the smaller the segments, the quicker they boil. Don't go mad with the little segments, you may end up with mush!

A tip - Boil water in the kettle (if you have one) while you peel so you have hot water ready to go.

Put the Potato Segments into a suitably sized saucepan, add the water, some salt and I like to use a Vegetable OXO Stock Cube. Put on the Cooker and leave it to boil.

I had a few pictures showing you how I chopped the onions so I will put those further down. Ultimately, take off the outer skin, cut in half and chop the onion into little bits however you like.

Preheat the Oven to 180 degrees Celsius

Place the Minced Lamb into the saucepan, add the onions, a teaspoon of garlic powder and stir while waiting for the mixture to heat up.

Add the OXO lamb cube and stir it some more. When the lamb is cooked (completely brown) add the maggi liquid seasoning and Worcestershire sauce to taste (completely optional - You can just use salt and pepper).

Add the frozen peas and the mint sauce (if you like mint - It goes well with lamb).

Now traditional Shepherd's Pie usually has some form of tomato in it but I do not use this as it adds time and not sufficient taste to my recipe so I prepare gravy instead using good old Bisto Granules (Do you have gravy granules in the US?)

3 heaped tablespoons of gravy and very little boiled water makes a very thick gravy which adds a lovely taste to the filling.

Spoon it into the filling on the cooker hob.

Place the filling into the oven dish. Anyone will do, you will learn after cooking this once which size is suitable.

The potatoes should take about 15 to 20 minutes to boil depending on the size of the segments but do not rush it, there is nothing as horrible as crunchy mashed potato.

Drain the potatoes.

Using a masher, mash them down. We like to add milk and butter to it as well to add flavor to the potatoes. If you used a sweet potato then you will have a lovely, tasty orange color mash. I did not have any today as I am running low on groceries in the house - I know, I know, Slightly disorganized Mommy!

Take serving spoonfuls of the mashed potatoes and spread over the top of the filling until completely covered.

Sprinkle with your grated cheese

Place your Oven dish in the oven and see to the baby who is probably now wailing behind you (or is it just mine that does that?)

Leave it until it looks a nice brown to you (mine was slightly too brown!) - about 20 minutes.

Pull it out and serve it to pacing, hungry family!