Comfort

What is missing from this picture? 

A clue - I was making cottage pie. 

Yes, the potatoes. I am able to multi-task in a rudimentary kind of way, so I prepared the mashed potato while the meat was cooking. I amaze myself sometimes. 

The  observant Blipper may notice a few ingredients (ginger, garlic, garam masala, turmeric, chilli powder) which are not used in cottage pie. Well, they are in Rick Stein's Indian style recipe for it. 

As well as being tremendous November comfort food, my whole house now smells wonderful. 

I could have Blipped the finished dish, but I have never found any way of making cottage pie look good on a plate.