This shepherd's pie would have been 100% vegetarian if and only if I had vegetable broth. Instead I used beef broth. For this recipe I used: onion, broccoli, Bok choy and corn. I also used original veggie ground (by Yves) for the "meat" and cauliflower for the "mashed potato" portion.
The recipe I used was by Simply and I literally googled "easy shepherds pie". Once I noticed the temperature and time for the oven everything else was history. I made up my own recipe. Add "whatever I feel like" amount of vegetables, "meat" and broth to keep everything moist then add to the baking dish for the bottom layer.
The part that I always forget takes the longest is waiting for the veggies to get soft... soft enough to mash them. It seemed like it took an hour of our burner takes awhile to get hot. Man! But worth the wait. The "meat portion" was done I got thinking - it would be so nice to give someone an additional portion.. so I added a second package of veggie ground and added more vegetables.
Tidbit: 2 years ago I had said to my sister in law (and to my sisters as well) that I would provide every 3 months with a kid friendly meal - and a healthy one at that) to make it easier on them. And just never did it. I don't know why, I don't have any excuse I just never made it happen until now.
Crossing my fingers even the kids like it! So their batch might be a bit bland - I like a lot of pepper so I didn't bother adding that. And when my batch came out - omg sooo mouth watering ! we should have just had that for dinner but I told myself already tbat I was cheating all day with wine , might as well have company of some sort of take out. And pizza it was with dipping sauce.
Today will be different though. Got my workout gear on and ready to do all day cardio (outside).
Ps- I did indulge in (2) square slices of pizza. But I'm done now, nothing is holding me back today! Stay tuned...
The recipe I used was by Simply and I literally googled "easy shepherds pie". Once I noticed the temperature and time for the oven everything else was history. I made up my own recipe. Add "whatever I feel like" amount of vegetables, "meat" and broth to keep everything moist then add to the baking dish for the bottom layer.
The part that I always forget takes the longest is waiting for the veggies to get soft... soft enough to mash them. It seemed like it took an hour of our burner takes awhile to get hot. Man! But worth the wait. The "meat portion" was done I got thinking - it would be so nice to give someone an additional portion.. so I added a second package of veggie ground and added more vegetables.
Tidbit: 2 years ago I had said to my sister in law (and to my sisters as well) that I would provide every 3 months with a kid friendly meal - and a healthy one at that) to make it easier on them. And just never did it. I don't know why, I don't have any excuse I just never made it happen until now.
Crossing my fingers even the kids like it! So their batch might be a bit bland - I like a lot of pepper so I didn't bother adding that. And when my batch came out - omg sooo mouth watering ! we should have just had that for dinner but I told myself already tbat I was cheating all day with wine , might as well have company of some sort of take out. And pizza it was with dipping sauce.
Today will be different though. Got my workout gear on and ready to do all day cardio (outside).
Ps- I did indulge in (2) square slices of pizza. But I'm done now, nothing is holding me back today! Stay tuned...
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