Shepherd's Pie

So most of my friends are blogging about their love life, their marriage plans, fashion and makeup, their emoings or random stuff and here I am, blogging about food! Oh well...food's more interesting! (I am SO gonna be fat in no time!) I do think I spend most of my money on food...hmmm...

I have been watching FRIENDS and I saw that episode where Rachel was preparing dessert for Thanksgiving and she wanted to prepare an English Trifle but the pages of the recipe got stuck together and she ended up with a half English Trifle-half Shepherd's Pie! And then I remembered how good Shepherd's pie tastes and so I Googled the recipe (I will also die if I am cut off from the internet for too long-most people would die from dehydration first but I would die from being starved of the internet!). So here's the recipe, looks pretty simple =)

Easy Shepherd's Pie Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 lbs ground round beef
• 1 onion chopped
• 1-2 cups vegetables - chopped carrots, corn, peas
• 1 1/2 - 2 lbs potatoes (3 big ones)
• 8 tablespoons butter (1 stick)
• 1/2 cup beef broth
• 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
• Salt, pepper, other seasonings of choice

Method

1 Peel and quarter potatoes, boil in salted water until tender (about 20 minutes).

2 While the potatoes are cooking, melt 4 Tablespoons butter (1/2 a stick) in large frying pan.

3 Sauté onions in butter until tender over medium heat (10 mins). If you are adding vegetables, add them according to cooking time. Put any carrots in with the onions. Add corn or peas either at the end of the cooking of the onions, or after the meat has initially cooked.

4 Add ground beef and sauté until no longer pink. Add salt and pepper. Add worcesterchire sauce. Add half a cup of beef broth and cook, uncovered, over low heat for 10 minutes, adding more beef broth as necessary to keep moist.

5 Mash potatoes in bowl with remainder of butter, season to taste.

6 Place beef and onions in baking dish. Distribute mashed potatoes on top. Rough up with a fork so that there are peaks that will brown nicely. You can use the fork to make some designs in the potatoes as well.

7 Cook in 400 degree oven until bubbling and brown (about 30 minutes). Broil for last few minutes if necessary to brown.

Serves four.

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It's making me hungry! Must try to make this sometime during the break. MmmMmmM =)

One more paper on Friday morning and I'm done for the semester!!