Give up tatties and mince for every day

I grew up with mince and tatties served once a week. It was my Glaswegian father's favourite meal. If he was working late and had his served separately, he would have a poached egg on top.
It's a meal I still like though rarely cook it.
I'm with Marydoll and Maw - I've never heard it called tatties and mince.

Germanshepherdsmum

Maw hails from Scotland I believe.

I do indeed and am glad to see at least one supporter Marydoll from the Glasgow area.
This could become as contentious as the West Country scones cream or jam first issue!

My batches of basic freezer mince (with red lentils and lots of finely chopped veg) also later turn into bolognaise sauce (plenty of tomato purée, garlic and herbs), or chilli - tomato purée again, chilli powder and paprika plus a tin of red kidney beans.

I make mince and totties that my dad says are the best ever, and my young children say "what is this, why did people eat this in old times" as if I have handed them some kind of medieval peasant gruel

I give up and now I just put tomato passata through theirs and suddenly it is "the best bolognese"

Just after we were married I asked my OH to pick up a cauliflower on his way home and told him I’d planned cauliflower cheese and gammon for tea. When he arrived home I was told they’d no cauliflowers left so I brought fish fingers! Needless to say from then on I did the shopping and never asked for recipe advice!

Mince and tatties is my all time favourite but it must be quality steak mince from the butcher and mash without butter and the only acceptable veg is carrot which must not be cooked in the mince as it makes it too sweet Fussy moi lol

Sounds good to put in the slow cooker next week. Husband just retired but still working part time. I eat lunch time followed by a nap so he could have it whenever they send him home. Never tried it before but it sounds like cottage pie which we both love.

Mince beef cooked as described by MisInterpreted was a favourite of my DS, now 32, but he called it “little meat and gravy” generally served with mashed potatoes, peas and carrots.

CanadianGran

Thanks MissInterpreted. I thought so. I don't call in that, we just call it hamburger and gravy, and mostly have it with french fries (or chips, as you would say!)

The meat in a hamburger (or beefburger) is compressed into a round disc shape.

Mince is just that, minced meat cooked with onion and whatever flavourings, then thickened so it's minced meat in a gravy.

The meat content in a Shepherd’s pie is lamb. Beef is the meat content in a Cottage Pie.
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I might make a cottage pie tomorrow,
The tatties have to be well browned on top with grated cheese

CanadianGran

Question from someone unfamiliar with M&T, or T&M

Is the meat basically the same as the bottom of a shepherd's pie? Mince beef, onion, diced carrot and gravy?

The meat content in a Shepherd’s pie is lamb. Beef is the meat content in a Cottage Pie.

And it’s a mince and tatties from me on the East coat of Scotland.
I never enjoyed it as a meal much as a child (no real reason) but really enjoy it nowadays in the colder months. Mine could actually be better described as veg and mince - lots of onions, carrots, neep and I add a tin of either butter or cannellini beans when cooked. I have cabbage and peas with it, and always mashed tatties. I make enough to be able to freeze three or four portions.
My gran and grandad always had “second day mince”, she would poach eggs in it, just like shakshouka and then pour it over a slice of plain (Mother’s Pride) bread.

MiniMoon

Mince and taties here, it's one of my husband's favourites. He likes suet dumplings with it.
Comfort food at it's best.

Oh yes! Dumplings are a must. One of my GS's favourite meals.

BTW, we tend to call mince 'ground beef' or more familiarly, hamburger.

Thanks MissInterpreted. I thought so. I don't call in that, we just call it hamburger and gravy, and mostly have it with french fries (or chips, as you would say!)

CanadianGran

Question from someone unfamiliar with M&T, or T&M

Is the meat basically the same as the bottom of a shepherd's pie? Mince beef, onion, diced carrot and gravy?

Pretty much, yes. In the most simple form, it's just minced beef with onion in gravy - but many people, myself included, like to add carrots or peas to it as well. I also like mine with doughballs (dumplings).

weeducky I always bring several mealie puddings to freeze from Orkney they just don't taste the same anywhere else! Not very healthy though.

Question from someone unfamiliar with M&T, or T&M

Is the meat basically the same as the bottom of a shepherd's pie? Mince beef, onion, diced carrot and gravy?

Mince n tatties at school in Aberdeenshire came with skirlie, which is a mixture of onions and oatmeal fried up together until golden brown. Yum

Many years ago we had a dog who my gran and auntie spoiled rotten. DH and I used to do their weekly shop on a Saturday and as a treat for the dog my gran made her a plate of mince with carrots a peas. One Friday I phoned my gran and her homehelp answered and explained Gran was sleeping I told her to to wake my Gran as I was only calling to see what food they wanted delivered for their dinner that night. The home help replied it’s ok they have mince every Friday as she went to special butcher to get her 1lb of sirloin steak finally minced before she arrived at Grans. She was shocked that her efforts to get the meat was actually for the dog, needless to say after that the dog got normal mince from the butcher nearest my Gran’s house.

Mince and 'tatoes here tonight.
No meat, though.

Never have mince other than in a Chilli, or a Bolognaise sauce.

Mince and taties here, it's one of my husband's favourites. He likes suet dumplings with it.
Comfort food at it's best.

I am so in agreement with BigBerthal and lizziepopbottle. I absolutely hate mince and tatties. However my Mum used to make patties from the minced sunday roast with some breadcrumbs mixed in and bound together with an egg and fried ...I did eat them when I was young, but have never made them. As for sausages and black pudding yugh. BUT, coming from the north of Scotland, I do like an occasional mealie pudding.

I still live in the Glasgow area and everyone I know says Mince and Tatties.
We shall all just have to agree to differ 😉

tatties and mince was a regular dinner when I was growing up, usually with boiled potatoes rather than mash. Always with peas.

I haven't eaten it since I left home, can't abide the smell of mince cooking, although Mum always had stewing steak minced, rather than buying ready minced. I always hated the smell of cooking meat and even as a small child, insisted on waiting outside the butcher's shop as I couldn't abide the smell, let alone all the carcases on hooks.

Unsurprisingly, I am a vegetarian.

To return to the point of the thread; my Grandfather once said to my aunt 'Ooh, that was a lovely sponge Myra, surely you didn't bake it?'