I am a yankee and we make a different kind of a sheppards pie. we call it spud burger. Its easy and quick. Fry ground beef with onions, ( season if you can handle the seasonings) I can't so now its just ok. Put the fried beef in the bottom of a baking dish, add cheeze ( again if you an eat it) spread the mashed potaoes on top and add butter slabs ( sliced butter) on top bake a few minutes to melt the butter and bron the poataoes just a touck you have a meal in a pan. I add broccilli because its w "wet" veggie, I can't eat corn because I have a hieata hernia but any veggie you enjoy can be mixed in with the beef. So there is a nother variety of sheppard pie thrown at you, tyr it you might enjoy it. brenda