Friday, April 27, 2012

Lazy Shepherds Pie

So...I'm sitting here munching on a dish I made for the first time today and I says to myself, I says, "Axli, this was pretty easy to make, you outta blog this." And then self said, "ya know what yer' right!"
On the complication scale, this dish is slightly more complicated than some of my other recipes but it's not gonna use up all your clean dishes either.

FOR THIS RECIPE YOU WILL NEED:

Pre-made shortbread pie crust (don't use graham cracker, that would be gross!)
Box of mashed potatoes (I chose the fanciest kind I could find that required only water)
1 Cup of ground beef
1/2 cup onions
1/2 cup of peas*

Brown your beef and make it as crumbly as possible. When it's mostly done, toss in some diced onion and cook till it's see through. Set this mix aside and boil your water for the potatoes with the leftovers still in the pan. Set your oven to 325. Make your potatoes as the box commands and then mix the meat and onions in with it. Scoop all of this into the pie crust and throw it in the oven for about 20 minutes. *Let cool for 10 minutes, go write a blog and then realize that you forgot to add the peas in the pie you just made.

If there is too much potato/meat/onion for one pie, throw the leftovers in the fridge for later. Pull out the pie when the oven goes off and then leave a comment about how I'm a genius for using the shortbread crust. No really, it doesn't sound like it goes with dinner foods but it adds just the right amount of sweetness to make you feel like dinner IS dessert.