what is cottage pie ?

Cottage Pie has beef in it. Shepherds Pie however, has lamb.

A cottage pie is a pie made from minced/ground beef and topped with mashed pototo. The meat mixture has a sort of gravy plus carrots and peas. Shepherd's Pie is the same thing except it is made with lamb mince.

The name is a technicality. Cottage pie is basically shepherds pie using any meat other than lamb. MANY recipes on line. Use whatever meat you like even chicken or seafood and you will have cottage pie.

Real comfort food.

Enjoy

Cottage Pie is always minced beef and Shepherd's Pie is always minced lamb. These dishes were made from the leftovers of a Sunday roast.

It's a classic English pie, and very healthy!

Basically onions, garlic carrots and leek. Combined with ground beef.

and a mixture of mashed potatoes and cheese sauce with mustard and eggs on top.

You should find a recipe on google in no-time :-)

Shepherds Pie and Cottage pie are noticeably plenty the comparable in spite of the undeniable fact that Shepherds pie traditionally includes lamb and Cottage beef..yet that has replaced by the years "Early cookery writers did no longer use the words "cottage pie" and "shepherd's pie" and the words did no longer seem in recipe books till the previous due area of the nineteenth century."

cottage pie is minced beef..

its the same as shephard's pie but with cow instead of lamb

Meat and vegetables.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottage_pie

do some research