Happy T-Day

[annuin]

Happy T-Day to any who celebrate it.

Being that we had no family obligations this year, we went nowhere (well, besides taking Dashiell to his therapy this morning), and I'm just making a cottage pie*. Neither Prez or myself grew up here, so T day was adopted anyway, and doesn't have all that much significance for us, and cooking a turkey for 3 people, one of whom doesn't eat turkey or much at all, didn't seem worth it.

I forgot to make a pumpkin pie earlier, and being that between prep, cooking and cooling time is about 3 hours, I'm not bothering now. I might bake another batch of pumpkin cookies later though. Between prep time and eating time is 20 minutes there ;) much easier to deal with.





* I would have gotten a chicken and saved the cottage pie making until tomorrow or so, but the local Shoprite apparently decided that turkeys were the only birds they were going to stock, and I didn't want to brave traffic on Wednesday afternoon to go to Whole Foods.

Comments

[illiana-galean.livejournal.com]

I have to ask, what's a cottage pie? As for pumpkiny goodness, I cheated and just got a frozen one. Last time I tried to make a pumpkin pie, it ended very badly. There was burning, screaming, entire empires fell...Okay, not really. But the cookies sound yummy!

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

A cottage pie is basically ground beef, carrot, onion and celery, seasoned (tomato paste, worcestershire sauce, stock etc.), simmered and then topped with mashed potatoes and baked in the oven.

It's really yummy. A bit time consuming though, being that the meat and veg gets simmered for 45 minutes, and then after you put it in an ovenproof dish and top it with mashed potatoes it goes in the oven for another 45 minutes.

Hearty fall/winter food :)