First, chop potatoes into a few pieces, put them in a pot, cover them with cold water, add some salt and put them on a hot burner. Aka, boil some potatoes. Maybe I go a bit overboard with the instructions.
Chop up a couple of onions and some celery. Put some butter and some lardons in a frying pan and start frying up the onions. Take the steak, cut off the fat, and chop the meat into small pieces. Put the chopped steak in the pan, along with the piece of fat from the steak. Cook the steak for a while, and then remove the steak-fat. Similar as to the chicken pot pie, add a couple of spoonfuls of flour and cook it for a minute or two.
Then add stock (all I had was chicken) until a sauce forms. To that add some Worcestershire sauce, some red wine, the celery, some cherry tomatoes (I squashed them with my hands as I put them in) and a spoonful of cream.
As you can see, this was a bit of a catch-all for things I had in my fridge. If you have other vegetables, add them. Beer instead of red wine would be fine. Chorizo instead of lardons sounds great. Feel free to make it your own.
By this point the potatoes should be done. Drain them, mash them, and then add milk and some beaten eggs. Mix it all together til its really smooth.
Pour the filling into your dish. When putting the potatoes on top of the filling, plop wee bits of mashed potato all around the top of the dish. Then start smoothing it out with a fork. Make nice fork-y bits that will brown nicely.
Shove it in the oven until the potatoes get browned on the tips.
Yum!
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