cottage pie

noun

: a shepherd's pie made especially with beef

Examples of cottage pie in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Featured Recipe View Recipe → For dinner that night, how about cottage pie? —Sam Sifton, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025

When the dish is made with ground beef, it's called cottage pie. —Elizabeth Nelson, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2024

The menu, dreamed up by chef Michael Alfeld, features continental and coastal dishes like Cajun chicken, cottage pie, lobster ginger halibut, and stuffed Atlantic cod with white wine butter. —Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2024

Ahi tuna nachos, burrata, cottage pie, wild mushroom risotto, and Scottish Salmon are on the menu. —Wendy Altschuler, Travel + Leisure, 30 July 2024

Popular plates include Scotch eggs, smoked salmon, cordon bleu fritters, fish and chips, and cottage pie. —Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 16 Mar. 2024

Traditional shepherd’s pie is made with ground lamb, thus the name, and classic cottage pie is made with ground beef. —Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 7 Apr. 2023

When made with beef instead of lamb, the dish is traditionally called cottage pie, but the idea is the same. —oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2023

Play pool at Smuggler’s Waterfront Bar or get the cottage pie at Buskers Irish Pub and Restaurant. —Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1791, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for cottage pie

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