Apparently, I win.

[kiya]

So we had about a baked potato and a third left over from previous cooking, and weren't entirely sure what to do with it for a while. Then the Cooking for Engineers blog threw a shepherd's pie recipe at me, and I said, 'Hmmm,' snagged it, and modified it shamelessly. (Oh, nasty, unscrupulous modefilers!)

So I generated food. And we settled down to eat it. I asked teinedreugan what he thought; he said it came out all right. The comments about the quality of the food continued, and improved, until I came to the conclusion that somewhere in the spicing I must have included the crack.


- ball of pizza dough
- some potatoes, cooked
- halfish package of hamburger
- half an onion
- some celery (wound up using about a stalk and a half after cutting out the cruddy bits)
- powdered beef bouillon
- cloves
- pepper (used white because it was what I grabbed)
- thyme
- some flour (could use more; sauce didn't thicken much)

Note to self: grease pie pan before applying dough next time.

Apply pizza dough to pie pan.

Chop onion, celery. Cook down in butter. Brown hamburger. Add cloves, pepper, thyme. Sprinkle on flour, trying not to coat the entire damn kitchen this time. Apply to pie pan.

Mix up some beef broth, pour over top.

Chop up the potatoes. Make half-hearted effort at mashing them. Give up, spread over top of pie.

Bake at 400F (200C-ish) for half hour.