Shepherd's pie Shepherd's pie Shepherd's pie or cottage pie is a meat pie with a crust or topping of mashed potato. The recipe has many variations, but the defining ingredients are minced red meat (commonly, "cottage pie" refers to beef and "shepherd's pie" to lamb), cooked in a gravy or sauce with onions and sometimes other vegetables, such as peas, celery or carrots, and topped with a layer of mashed potato before it is baked. The pie is sometimes also topped with grated cheese to create a layer of melted cheese on top. The term "cottage pie" was in use by 1791,
Shepherd with a Flute Shepherd with a Flute Shepherd with a flute, or Boy with a Pipe, is a painting in oil on canvas of perhaps 1510-15, in recent decades usually attributed to Titian, though in the past often to Giorgione. It is now in the Royal Collection, and in 2018 was in the King's Closet at Windsor Castle. Since at least 1983 it has been called "Boy with a Pipe ('The Shepherd')" by the Royal Collection; previous titles the collection recognise include "Shepherd with a pipe", and "The Shepherd". X-ray radiography reveals that the figure "originally wore a more formal style of white