As an American you won't understand when I say I was making a tater pie.
Translated it means a pie made in a dish like that, some meat and a little onion and lots of diced potato....it's finished off with a VERY thick pastry crust on the top.
It is served with mushy peas or sometimes with black peas and we always have some pickled red cabbage to go with it...
It's real north of England food, no painting pictures on the plate with this stuff ! :-))
Meg, sounds yummy! I know I am an American, but Scottish family! My grandmother used to make a dish like that, but I didn't know how it was done, I was just a kid. Mushy peas and red cabbage are really good as well. Food is made to pile up and eat, not paint on plates, I agree!! :-))
If you can get the mushy peas there then you could make it....don't forget to cook the meat first until tender and add a beef stock cube. Another tip is that it always tastes much better warmed up the following day. Enjoy!