Lamb should be very good, also. Just saute the chopped meat w/ onions and
carrots (maybe other veggies), layer it in a casserole then top w/ fluffy
mashed potatoes. Brown the top in a hot oven.
Serve w/ a shower of minced parsley.
Posted on 07/02/2017 3:29:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
That's the recommendation of at team of experts put together by an AM
Shepherd’s pie can help save the economy of rural Wales from devastation after Brexit, according to a team of experts brought together by a Labour AM.
Baroness Eluned Morgan, who represents Mid & West Wales, hopes the ideas in her group’s report will stimulate debate about an often neglected part of the country.
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Considering the potential economic consequences of Brexit, the report says: “Welsh Lamb has long been seen as a valuable product but does not easily compete with lamb from New Zealand, which is imported at much lower price.
“Furthermore, if Wales loses its current access to the EU market and has to depend on WTO rules, we may have to pay an effective tariff rate of 46% which could make Welsh lamb uncompetitive.
“We must add value locally to what is already an excellent brand by processing the original product. Over 79 million ready meals are eaten every week by adults in the UK. We must target this market and provide an initial guaranteed demand through using Welsh public procurement.
“Procurement partnerships should be encouraged with existing ready meal businesses or business start-ups, alongside an established distributor, to ensure a shepherd’s pie made of 100% Welsh ingredients is delivered to all Welsh public sector organisations who are contracted to provide food in Wales.
“This would provide a domestic market for quality Welsh lamb which may be under severe threat post-Brexit in terms of export opportunities.”
Baroness Morgan set up the group in response to concerns that Rural Wales was being neglected in the context of City Deals and increased investment in urban areas – and the sense that it needed a new strategy for itself.
Another idea mooted in the report is teaching English to Chinese nationals. It says: “China has a huge population of single, relatively wealthy young people whose parents require them to receive a broader education to learn English and experience a life outside of China.
“Providing English language courses for Chinese students for two to three months in Rural Wales alongside co-ordinated programmes of outdoor education, sports, language learning, debate and social skills would be well received in China.
“Redundant rural schools could be used to provide such activities and local families could be encouraged to host Chinese students in return for a fee.
“Two local authorities should be encouraged to undertake an initial pilot. The Welsh Government should appoint an experienced Chinese expert to drive this initiative.”
The group also proposes that each local authority should either build itself or support housing associations in building up to 12 eco-homes with older people specifically in mind, in which step-up and step-down beds from hospitals are accommodated and where a carer can be on hand to help.
The report says: “The eco-homes should also be a means of delivering local apprenticeships.
“The Welsh Government should ensure that Rural Wales receives its share of the 20,000 new homes promised, which would amount to around 5,000 homes.
“Eco/Passive homes, once built, are very economic to heat and run; this would alleviate fuel poverty and contribute to climate change emission targets.
“These homes should be built, as far as possible, using local materials – in particular wood – local supplies and a locally skilled workforce; preferably providing apprenticeship opportunities.
“Once these homes are built, they should release local homes for younger people. It should be ensured that covenants are placed on these homes to ensure that it is local people who are able to buy or rent these homes.”
Are there any other ideas?
Other suggestions include developing a horse breeding centre of excellence near the Ffos Las racecourse in Carmarthenshire and developing a network of charging posts for electric cars. There could also be a pilot project for driverless electric cars.
Summing up, the report says: “An integrated, co-ordinated approach is required across economic development, planning, transport and public service provision.
“We must focus on rural towns, which are often the economic hub of a much larger geographical area. Creative responses to the challenge of austerity are already being explored to prevent the closure of public and commercial services such as schools, libraries, banks and post offices in small towns and rural communities.”
Welsh rabbit farms.
Easy Shepherd's PieINGREDIENTS
1 (20-ounce) can DINTY MOORE® beef stew
1 (24-ounce) package refrigerated mashed potatoesDIRECTIONS
Heat oven to 400°F.
In quart baking dish, place stew.
Spoon mashed potatoes over stew.
Bake 25 minutes or until hot and bubbly.
Serve and enjoy!
Serve w/ a shower of minced parsley.
Don’t forget the gravy!!!
If I understand this correctly, the Baroness wants the government of Wales to support Welsh farmers by funding the production, using locally-grown ingredients, of Shepherd's Pie tv-dinners for recipients of free food from the government of Wales. Very nice, and all that ... but I have two questions:
1. How does any actual money ever get into the system? and
2. How did they make Shepherd's Pie before they got potatoes from South America? With turnips? Parsnips?
We like lamb in the US....particularly if it’s good quality.
I happen to be very fond of Colorado lamb myself
I always wondered about them having potatoes in Middle-earth.
A couple of restaurants near me have it.
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Well, now I know. Was it just lamb in a pie crust, or did it have vegetables?
Apples mostly with a few raisins and spices if you were wealthy.
Just the apples and herbs if you were ordinary people.
Meat (beef (cottage) or lamb (shepherds)), gravy and veggies (I like parsnips in this) topped with mashed potatoes. No pie crust.
Yummy.
I see, having searched, that apples and pears were found in Wales at least as early as the Dark Ages. As I was telling the kids when we were picking blackberries in the Duke Power easement in our subdivision, “Nature doesn’t let sugar go to waste.”
Potatoes arrived in Europe from South America no earlier than the 16th century. My question was about how the "pie" was made prior to that ... and the answer was, with a grain-based crust and sweetened with fruit.
My mother, who is from Northern Ireland, made shepherd's pie with ground beef. In the U.S. from the 1940's on (at least) lamb was too expensive. We sometimes had leg-of-lamb at Easter, or when the Navy Commissary mysteriously had a batch of lamb-legs in stock.
Absolutely! My father had a variety of apple trees planted out back of house in Leonard. Some of them did really well, and some didn't. I remember one summer, making applesauce with everything off all the trees. They were all pretty wormy, but we just cut the bad parts out. My grandmother thought we should can the applesauce, but we froze it, instead.
In the 60’s my lamb-loving grandparents would drag us to Greek festivals in Chicago every weekend in the summer so much so I thought that’s what all American’s did on the weekend! It was until the 2nd grade I learned it was just us!!
In the winter my grandfather made a BBQ spit in his garage to roast lamb. My grandparents reeked of garlic!! Lordy, could my grandparents cook.
shepardess pie
can't live without it
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won't even try
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