Thank you Lord for dinner.

I went shopping, my beloved husband chopped everything that needed chopping.  Together, we made Shepard's Pie.

Etymology

The term cottage pie was in use by 1791,^[2][6] when the potato was being introduced as an edible crop affordable for the poor (cf. "cottage" meaning a modest dwelling for rural workers).

History

In early cookery books, the dish was a means of using leftover roasted meat of any kind, and the pie dish was lined with mashed potato as well as having a mashed potato crust on top.^[7][8]
The term "shepherd's pie" did not appear until 1877,^[2] and since then it has been used synonymously with "cottage pie", regardless of whether the principal ingredient was beef or mutton.^{[1][4][9][7][8][10][11]} More recently, the term "shepherd's pie" has been used when the meat is lamb,^[12][13] the theory being that shepherds are concerned with sheep^[14] and not cattle^[15][16][17] (see folk etymology).  ~From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia