Beef Casserole – take two

I can be pretty fickle when it comes to food – quite often I find something I love and I want to eat it all the time, other times I might think something is brilliant but eat it once and then not want to eat it again. Tonight was one of those nights. There was plenty of leftover casserole for dinner this evening which should have been great because it’s Monday and I always find it difficult to get excited about cooking by the time I’ve got over the shock of going back to work following the weekend. Stephen is out so it solves the cooking-for-one issue and the casserole was good. Did I want to eat it though? Nope.

I didn’t give myself a choice though, I just got on with heating it up and congratulating myself on how mature I was being when something struck me; if I spooned the casserole into a dish and smothered it with the leftover potato and parsnip mash then it would be transformed into a completely new dish and I would be fooled.

And fooled I was! It tastes exactly the same as it did yesterday really (the flavours have intensified as you’d imagine) because, really, it is the same as yesterday but in my little head I’d created a whole new and very imaginative Shepherd’s/Cottage pie type-thing – aren’t I clever 🙂

As an aside, leftover mash = good, leftover parsnip and potato mash = not good, in fact more than a little sweet and strange tasting 🙁