I Cooked Something!

So I made this. I'm not exactly sure what to call it. It's got different vegetables in, predominantly mushrooms. And it's got the mashed potato topping as an alternative to pastry. So I assume this is a pie, as Shepherd's Pie has the same mashed potato topping. Anyway, I've decided to call it Mushroom + some other veg Potato Topped Pie. You can find the recipe here and I've also put the link under the 'My Recipes' tab.

When I started cooking it, I just plucked out the vegetables from the fridge and chopped them into their specific shapes. Onions and mushrooms are long as I like them. Carrot and celery are small so they can cook quicker. And the courgette is really thin because I'm not too keen on them, unless they are thin as you taste less of it that way.

I then fried the vegetables, again not really sure what order I was supposed to fry them in but nothing got burnt so what I did must've been right (or good enough). When I had to make the sauce, I was a bit stuck (part of the problem was that we have no garlic at home!) - I didn't know what to season it with. I put a generous amount of black pepper as I love that stuff, randomly sprinkled the ground ginger, put some rosemary and a few dollops of tamarind. Then risked it with the chilli powder which was followed by salt. I added some of my mum's homemade natural yoghurt to give it a creamy and tangy flavour. Then I tried it, and I couldn't stop trying it because I liked the flavour I had made :)

With the potato, I was too impatient to let it boil so I just shoved it in the microwave (less energy used up too). And with the milk, I put some ground mixed spices and then I had to restrain myself from eating the mashed potato as it tasted really good with the warm spicy flavour.

I then assembled it and put it in the oven to heat up. My dad came home so we were both waiting for it to finish cooking. Unfortunately, I couldn't get a photo of it after it came out of the oven as my dad had already dug in. It didn't look much different to the top photo so it's not that big of a loss. We both enjoyed it though, and I'm actually quite proud I managed to make this.