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Guinness Shepherd’s Pie

The Hungry Housewife — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:42:00 +0000

It has happened TWICE in the history of the Hungry Housewife blog. I have repeated a recipe TWICE.
So quite yer bitchin’. I have gotten countless emails on this Guinness Shepherd’s Pie and how delicious it is when someone makes it. It has even been featured on Craft Beer.com and their newsletter.
So if the beer people say it’s good…well then, it must be good!!!!
The photos are FAR from appetizing. They were taken WAY back in April 2009 and I dont even think I had a DSLR camera yet.
This is a perfect dinner to make for the upcoming Irish, beer drinking Holiday. I am sadly going to miss it , as I will be at the Frito-Lay Flavor Kitchen in Texas! YEEEE-HAW. Fun Fun FUN!

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Guinness Shepherd’s Pie

Author: Leslie Green – The Hungry Housewife

Recipe type: dinner, casserole

Prep time: 20 mins

Cook time: 20 mins

Total time: 40 mins

Serves: 6

Ingredients

1 ½ pounds Organic ground beef 80/20
1 (1lb) bag frozen mixed vegetables, thawed
2 packets of dry Brown Gravy Mix
1 medium onion
Olive Oil
2 bottles Guinness Beer
2 Tablespoons Tomato Paste
2 cups Sharp Cheddar Cheese
3 pounds baking potatoes
¼- ½ cup milk
1 stick butter
Salt and pepper

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375

Potato filling

Boil the potatoes in slated water until fork tender.
Drain completely and place back in pot so all of the water evaporates.
In a medium mixing bowl add butter and potatoes.
Mash until smooth, while adding the milk for a medium consistency.
Add salt and pepper.

Meat filling

Cook and drain ground beef.
Place drained beef back in skillet and add 1 bottle of Guinness.
Cook until beer has almost cooked out.
Add tomato paste to meat
In a medium sauce pan, prepare the brown gravy according to package directions,
however, use beer for half the liquid called for( 1 cup water, 1 cup beer)
Pour gravy into meat mixture.
And cook all together until you get a nice thick gravy.
In medium skillet with olive oil sauté onions until soft and translucent.
Add mixed vegetables to the onions and cook until warm throughout.
In a 2 quart baking dish, add meat as bottom layer, the add vegetables, and then add the mashed potatoes. Top with Shredded cheese.Cook at 375 for about 20 minutes or until cheese in nice and bubbly

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1 ½ pounds Organic ground beef 80/20
1 (1lb) bag frozen mixed vegetables, thawed
2 packets of dry Brown Gravy Mix( I use McCormick Brown Gravy Mix, 0.87 oz packets)
1 medium onion
Olive Oil
2 bottles Guinness Beer(14.9 oz each)
2 Tablespoons Tomato Paste
2 cups Sharp Cheddar Cheese
3 pounds baking potatoes
¼- ½ cup milk
1 stick butter
Salt and pepper

Preheat oven to 375

To make Potato filling…
Boil the potatoes in slated water until fork tender. Drain completely and place back in pot so all of the water evaporates.
In a medium mixing bowl add butter and potatoes. Mash until smooth, while adding the milk for a medium consistency. Add salt and pepper.

Meat filling…
Cook and drain ground beef.
Place drained beef back in skillet and add 1 bottle of Guinness. Cook until beer has almost cooked out.
Add tomato paste to meat.
Empty both gravy packets into a medium saucepan.
Pour 1 cup of water and 1 cup of beer into the saucepan and whisk until combined. Stirring frequently, cook on medium heat until the gravy comes to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 1 minute.
Pour gravy into meat mixture. And cook all together until you get a nice thick gravy.

In medium skillet with olive oil sauté onions until soft and translucent.
Add mixed vegetables to the onions and cook until warm throughout.

In a 2 quart baking dish, add meat as bottom layer, the add vegetables, and then add the mashed potatoes. Top with Shredded cheese.Cook at 375 for about 20 minutes or until cheese in nice and bubbly

~ The Hungry Housewife

St Patricks Day Food

The Hungry Housewife — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:00:00 +0000

Remember I told you that I am in Lazy Town? Welp, still there. And just to show you how pathetically lazy I am about blogging these days, I am going to post a repeat recipe, even using old photos (GASP)!!! Ehhh, cut me a break, it’s the first time I have done a repeat in 2 years.

My Shepherds Pie rocks the house, so I suppose it needs to be resurrected from the archives.

If I were a politically correct kinda girl, this would not be called “Shepherds” Pie. True “Shepherds” pie has lamb in it. My recipe uses ground beef, so I suppose it should be called “meat pie”. Well “meat pie” just sounds foul to me, so I will be sticking to Shepherds Pie, thank you very much.

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1 ½ pounds Organic ground beef 80/20
1 (1lb) bag frozen mixed vegetables, thawed
2 packets of dry Brown Gravy Mix
1 medium onion
Olive Oil
2 bottles Guinness Beer
2 Tablespoons Tomato Paste
2 cups Sharp Cheddar Cheese
3 pounds baking potatoes
¼- ½ cup milk
1 stick butter
Salt and pepper

Preheat oven to 375

Meat filling…
Cook and drain ground beef.
Place drained beef back in skillet and add 1 bottle of Guinness. Cook until beer has almost cooked out.
Add tomato paste to meat
In a medium sauce pan, prepare the brown gravy according to package directions,
however, use beer for half the liquid called for( 1 cup water, 1 cup beer)
Pour gravy into meat mixture. And cook all together until you get a nice thick gravy.

In medium skillet with olive oil sauté onions until soft and translucent.
Add mixed vegetables to the onions and cook until warm throughout.

In a 2 quart baking dish, add meat as bottom layer, the add vegetables, and then add the mashed potatoes. Top with Shredded cheese.Cook at 375 for about 20 minutes or until cheese in nice and bubbly

~ The Hungry Housewife

Chicken and Vegetable Bake

The Hungry Housewife — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:00:00 +0000

Today I hang my head in shame and present you with a dish without butter. Without heavy cream. Without Parmigiano-Reggiano . It is not secret that I love my butter and I love my heavy cream. But last night I got a wild hair up my ass and decided to forgo the fat. I just threw what I had on hand in a casserole and baked up a delicious and HEALTHY dinner. My husband even commented that this was probably the healthiest dinner I had ever made. This dish is Soooooo versatile. Add what ever veggies you have on hand and it would be fine. Mushrooms, carrots,yellow squash etc. would have been great. But what you see in the picture is all I had to throw in. Quick and easy, yep sure was!

Chicken and Vegetable Bake

1 1/2 pounds boneless skinless chicken boobs, cut into 1″ cubes

2 zucchini, cut into 1″ cubes

1 onion, roughly chopped

6 Melissa’s Baby Dutch Yellow Potatoes, cut in half

2 tomatoes(I am digging Ugly ripe right now), roughly chopped

Olive oil

5 or so sage leaves

Sprig rosemary

Thyme(about 1 tsp)

Garlic Powder

Kosher Salt and pepper

Balsamic Vinegar(a few shakes)

Preheat oven to 400

In large bowl toss all ingredients (except tomatoes) including herbs and spices with olive oil.

Put in casserole dish and add tomatoes.

Bake for 30 minutes

**again add what ever veggies you have on hand*

~ The Hungry Housewife

Guinness Shepherds Pie

The Hungry Housewife — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 02:33:00 +0000

I gave you a little tease on St. Pattys day about my Shepherds Pie. Well here she is in all her glory. Do you hear the bag pipes in the distance?? Or was that angels singing? What ever it was, you will hear glorious music when you bite into this casserole.
Many a years I have been completely drunk at the Irish Pub for “The Holiday”, insisting on eating the Shepherds Pie they plop on my plate. And to be honest it is always bland and nasty to be quite honest. But I still feel the need to order it. I suppose it is some sort of tradition.
A few years back I was on a mission to make a more flavorful version of the gruel. And I think I hit the nail on the head with this one folks. Try it and I think you agree, it is FABULOUS. And if you don’t agree, well then you have serious issues! Sick Psychiatric issues!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Hungry Housewife’s Guinness Shepherds Pie

Preheat oven to 375

In medium skillet with olive oil sauté onions until soft and translucent.
Add mixed vegetables to the onions and cook until warm throughout.

In a 2 quart baking dish, add meat as bottom layer, the add vegetables, and then add the mashed potatoes. Top with Shredded cheese.Cook at 375 for about 20 minutes or until cheese in nice and bubbly

~ The Hungry Housewife

Empty Pantry Syndrome

The Hungry Housewife — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:37:00 +0000

We have all had it at one point in our lives..you know..when you are standing in your kitchen, staring at a plate of thawed chicken breast..staring and staring and staring. I HATE HATE making the same things over and over. I pulled out my recipes binder, saw some things that looked good. Crap, I had none of the ingredients in my pantry. I had no bread crumbs, no fresh herbs, no pasta. Hmmmm, desperate times call for desperate measures.
I know I had potatoes and onions. Ok, I could work with what I had.
Again, no bread crumbs..there it was in the rear of my pantry…Stove Top Stuffing! All Stove Top is is Bread right? So below is the recipe in which I came up for dinner. I know the photos look like a big blob of nothing. But I tell you what…it was pretty damn tasty if I must say so myself!

Empty Pantry Chicken

4 organic chicken breasts

1 can cream of mushroom soup

1 potato sliced thin

1 onion

3/4 cup Sherry

1 cup Stove Top Stuffing mix

1/4 cup Parmigiano-Reggiano Cheese

Salt and Pepper

Slice onion thinly, caramelize them in pan

In a buttered casserole dish, arrange thinly sliced potatoes on bottom

Salt and Pepper Chicken

Place chicken on top of potatoes

Place caramelized onions on top of chicken

In small bowl, mix cream of mushroom soup and sherry together

Place soup mixture on top of onions

Top with Stove Top Stuffing

Shred Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese over Stove Top

Bake uncovered in preheated 350 degree oven for 1 hour or until chicken is done.

~ The Hungry Housewife