Cottage Pie three ways

Sister-in-Law, Lisa, is in a bit of a bad way at the moment.  She's hurt her neck and is having to take it easy and rest.  She's so bad that Joe had to take the day off work to look after her.  Lisa's an absolute dynamo usually so hopefully it won't last too long and get her down.  I had already planned a cottage pie for today; with an extra bit for Arthur (The Woo's dad) but my early morning instructions from The Woo were that we were making enough for Joe, Lisa and the girls as well!

So, just over a kilo of mince and about four kilos of potatoes later we were ready to go.  I rustled up the mixture during the afternoon and made up the three lots of pies in various sized dishes and we were all set to go with all guns blazing!

Half past four was Zero Hour and it was into the car with the deliveries with the first stop at Arthur's.  Oven on and pie in on a low heat with instructions to get the kettle filled and ready for our return.

Round to Joe and Lisa's with their two pies.  Poor Lisa was flat on her back on the sofa with their dog, Ruby, making the most of the fact that she was allowed up there too!  A brief visit as we had to get back to sort the Patriarch out!

Back to Arthur's and the oven was turned up to brown the cheese topping, his marrowfat peas (a favourite of mine too!) were zapped in the microwave and The Woo rustled up a quick gravy.  We had a quick cuppa while he ate and then back to QFK to sort ours out.

I'm blogging whilst ours heats up in the oven and we're having curly kale and tat soi with ours.  We found the latter whilst shopping in Waitrose earlier and it looks like bok choi but with thinner stems and is a bit less leafy.

So that's cottage pie three ways.  One dish but, in true family style, shared at three different locations.  I'm lucky to be part of this family and it's nice to be able to do something in return for all the wonderful things they have done for us in the past couple of years.  Bargain!