For the best cottage pie brown your beef mince in a casserole dish. Remove the mince and add on a high heat diced carrots and caramelise them. Lower the heat and add diced onion and celery and sweat out.

Add in this order, and cook out individually, 1 tablespoon white flour, Tomato paste, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce and red wine.

Finally add some good beef stock cover with a lid and add to a 170°C Oven for 2 hours. Add to a deep ceramic dish cover with mash potato and top with cheddar cheese and put back back in the oven for 45 mins.

All our meat is delivered frozen.

We deliver it to you in insulated sustainable wool packaging that can keep it frozen for 72hrs. When you receive your meat please put it straight in the freezer. Even if it has defrosted it is ok to put back in the freezer as long as it is not warm.

We deliver it frozen for a number of critical reasons:

• Natures preservative. Freezing is one of the most ancient of all methods of preservation. We firmly believe that when frozen rapidly there is no loss of quality in the meat.

• Sustainability. By freezing our meat we can ensure there is as close to zero waste as possible. Our meat is frozen as soon as it is butchered in protective packaging that allows us to keep the meat perfectly for over a year. This is vs 10 days for fresh.

• Seasonality. Like vegetables, meat has a season. By freezing our meat we can select our produce when it is at its very best. Fresh meat butchers cannot do this and you can taste the difference in our meat.

• Better supporting farmers. For our farmers it is most profitable for them to get the produce off the farm as soon as it is ready. This allows us to support them better.