GF DF Shepherd's Pie

This is one of my favorite comfort foods.

Ingredients:
Mashed potato (about four cups)
1 tablespoon canola/olive oil
1 onion chopped
1 pound ground beef
1 bay leaf
2 carrots diced
1 celery stalk diced
1 cup frozen peas
1 tsp Worcester sauce
dash of nutmeg
dash of paprika
dash of ground cloves
1 tsp thyme
salt
pepper
2 tablespoons canola oil
3 tablespoons brown rice flour
3/4 cup beef broth
1/4 cup red cooking wine (optional)
generous dash of paprika

Directions:
1. Make the mashed potato. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F

2. Heat oil in a large frying pan. Add onion, carrots, and celery stir until the vegetables are coated. Reduce the heat to medium-low and cook, stirring occasionally, until tender, about fifteen minutes.

3. Increase the heat to medium-high and add the ground meat and cook until browned (about five minutes).

4. Scrape everything to one side of the pot and tilt the pot to the other side and spoon off excess fat that collects there. Add bay leaf, peas, Worcester sauce. Cook for a minute or two then add salt and pepper to taste.

5. While the meat is cooking, pour the 2 tablespoons oil and stir in the flour in a small pot. Stir over medium heat for about two minutes then slowly add beef broth and wine. Stir.

6. Remove bay leaf and pour the thickened beef broth into the meat mixture and stir.

7. Spread the ground beef in an even layer on the bottom of a 2 quart casserole dish. Spread mashed potato over the top. Fluff the top of the potatoes with a fork. Sprinkle paprika evenly over the top.

8. Pop the shepherd's pie into the oven. After thirty minutes, the potatoes should have formed the golden brown crust.