{"id":379,"date":"2008-12-26T16:31:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T16:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2008-12-26T16:31:02","modified_gmt":"2008-12-26T16:31:02","slug":"random-recipes-shepards-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/26\/random-recipes-shepards-pie\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Recipes: Shepard’s Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is not the healthiest fare, but when served with a big ol’ salad with low cal dressing, it makes a hearty and yummy part of a balanced meal.\u00a0\u00a0 I do want to note, in the interest of full disclosure, Zliten made this all.\u00a0 I pretty much took pictures.\u00a0 All you veggies out there, I suppose you could make this sans ground beef, but you might be better off getting some of those soy crumbles that are supposed to be ground beef-like.\u00a0 However, being omnivorous myself, I haven’t tried it.<\/p>\n

Start by browning the thawed ground beef.\u00a0 We use 96\/4 (the leanest stuff you can get) so you pretty much don’t have to drain it.\u00a0\u00a0 If you get anything less lean, drain it before you continue.\u00a0 Then, add 2 small cans of tomato sauce and about 2-3 cups of frozen mixed veggies.\u00a0 Previously, we used a can of corn, can of carrots, and can of green beans, until we realized that our frozen costco veggies took care of that need and added yummy peas.\u00a0 Extra credit: you can also add garlic, onions, and rooster sauce<\/a> at this stage for extra spicing.<\/p>\n

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This is what you should be looking like now.\u00a0 In another pot, make your potatoes.\u00a0 Normally, we go the lazy way and get a package of instant taters, but a friend had just brought over his perishables since he was leaving on a 3 week trip, so we had a bunch of potatoes staring at us with their ever-growing eyes.\u00a0 Five little ones became this:<\/p>\n

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Quix’s perfect mashed potatoes – cut up potatoes as desired and throw into water.\u00a0 Leave the skins on, as mom said, they have all the nutrients (and I think they taste better).\u00a0 Extra credit: throw in garlic and onions.\u00a0 Pretty much anything besides cookies are going to have that extra credit direction – btw.\u00a0 Leave an itty bit of water in and mash ’em up.\u00a0 Add about a tbsp of low fat ranch and a tsp of light margarine, a handful of blue cheese, dill, rosemary, fresh ground pepper, and stir.\u00a0 These, however, weren’t made by me, which was fine, they tasted great.\u00a0 Just don’t know exactly what went into them.\u00a0 For this dish, you can skip all the flavorings above and just do taters and lube (butter, ranch, or both) because the bottom is so flavorful.<\/p>\n

Next, pour your meaty concoction in something you can throw in the oven.\u00a0 Spread the tater goodness on top of it.<\/p>\n

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Now, the important part, the cheese.\u00a0 Sprinkle a thin layer over the top.\u00a0 Cheddar is the best, but we had Italian blend, anything is ok.\u00a0 Just keep in mind, fat free cheese sucks at melting well, so you might not use that.\u00a0 I guess you could skip the cheese, but I don’t suggest it.<\/p>\n

Throw it in the oven for about 25 minutes on 350.\u00a0 Go do something else for a while.\u00a0 I suggest sometime during this time make yourself a salad to go with it or you’ll want to eat the whole pan of it.\u00a0 Because shortly, you’re going to pop it out of the over, and it will look like this:<\/p>\n

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Hey there, beautiful.\u00a0 My name’s Quix.\u00a0 Wanna come to my plate for dinner tonight?\u00a0 Just you, me, and salad.\u00a0 Om… nom.. nom…<\/p>\n

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Oooh.\u00a0 Sorry.\u00a0 Got caught up there a moment.\u00a0 So the calorie breakdown on this bad boy is approximately 400 calories per quarter section (which is a good size serving with some sort of side dish, I highly suggest a salad with but I can’t control your whims), and should feed 4 normal humans (somewhere between birdlike eaters and garbage disposals).\u00a0 Time invested is about 30 mins prep, plus about 30 mins wait\/cooling.\u00a0 Feel free to liberally douse with more rooster sauce if you’re spicy like us.\u00a0 Enjoy, and thank me later!<\/p>\n

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This is not the healthiest fare, but when served with a big ol’ salad with low cal dressing, it makes a hearty and yummy part of a balanced meal.\u00a0\u00a0 I do want to note, in the interest of full disclosure, Zliten made this all.\u00a0 I pretty much took pictures.\u00a0 All you veggies out there, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUhDu-67","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}