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.

Comments

[memerath.livejournal.com]

Shepherd's Pie Pizza...nice. :)

[brooksmoses]

Yes, you win. I am now quite hungry.

Luckily, we have yummy beef stew at home, and I will be there to eat it in just a bit over an hour. But I shall have to try this recipe sometime soon. (Is this commercial pre-made pizza dough, or...?)

[kiya]

It was premade pizza dough. Which generally serves if I have dough-cravings, which I do on occasion.

I refuse to make a recipe that claims to be pie without dough.

[keshwyn]

Post to eatmystuff?

[timill]

If you just slice the potatoes to make the topping instead of mashing them, it's a hot-pot.

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure it qualifies as shepherd's pie if it has dough, though...

[kiya]

I did say I was a nasty, unscrupulous modefiler. ;)

[brooksmoses]

And so it came to pass this evening that I was hungry, and the only meat handy was some ground turkey, and I remembered this recipe and decided to make a further-modified version of it. The modifications, other than substituting in turkey, were adding some fennel seeds to the meat and some sage and rosemary to the potatoes, and using pastry dough instead of pizza dough. And undoubtably some variations in quantities of everything.

It was indeed good, though apparently not quite as good as yours.