{"id":692,"date":"2011-11-27T03:15:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T03:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=692"},"modified":"2011-11-27T03:15:50","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T03:15:50","slug":"gardeners-shepherd-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"Gardener’s Shepherd Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love that Canadian Living posts dinner ideas. I often click on their suggestion and think “Ah, yea, that would be good!” But invariably I am missing some ingredient or another but tonight I had everything, and more, to come up with this version of Gardener’s Pie. (\u00a0http:\/\/www.canadianliving.com\/food\/quick_and_easy\/gardeners_pie.php<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"Gardener's<\/a>
Comfort food extraordinaire for a cold Winter's night: Gardener's Shepherd Pie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

1 Tablespoon Olive Oil
\n1 Onion, chopped
\n2 cloves Garlic, minced
\n1 Carrot, grated
\n6 medium Mushrooms, sliced
\n1 1\/2 cups frozen Mixed Vegetables
\n1 Tablespoon dried Basil
\n1 pkg Yves Ground Round Original
\n2 Tablespoons Flour
\n1 cup Water
\n1 McCormick’s Vegetable Stock cube
\n2 Tablespoon Catalina Dressing (or 2 Tbsp Tomato Paste)<\/p>\n

Potato Topping
\n<\/span><\/strong>8 Potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
\n1\/4 cup Milk
\n1 1\/2 Tablespoons Grated Parmesan Cheese
\n1\/4 cup Light Cream Cheese
\n2 Tablespoons Butter<\/p>\n

Preheat oven to 400F.
\nLightly spray a 9X13 casserole dish with vegetable oil spray; set aside.<\/p>\n

In medium saucepan cook the potatoes until tender; about 10 – 15 minutes depending on how small or large you cut your potatoes.
\nDrain potatoes and return to pot.
\nMash with milk and butter.
\nStir in parmesan cheese and cream cheese.<\/p>\n

While the potatoes are cooking, heat olive oil over medium-high heat in a large skillet.
\nCook onion for about 3 minutes; add garlic and continue cooking for another minute or so.
\nAdd grated carrot, basil, frozen mixed veggies and mushrooms.
\nSprinkle with flour and cook, stirring for 1 minute.
\nAdd water, Catalina Dressing and vegetable stock cube.
\nBring to a boil, stirring, for about 2 minutes.
\nReduce heat and continue simmering until the potatoes are ready.<\/p>\n

Once potatoes are ready to go, pour the “meat” mixture into prepared pan.
\nSpread mashed potatoes over top.
\nDot with scant dollops of butter.
\nBake in 400F oven until hot through, about 20 minutes.
\nServe with Salad and Crusty Rolls.<\/p>\n

Serves 6<\/p>\n

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I love that Canadian Living posts dinner ideas. I often click on their suggestion and think “Ah, yea, that would be good!” But invariably I am missing some ingredient or another but tonight I had everything, and more, to come up with this version of Gardener’s Pie. (\u00a0http:\/\/www.canadianliving.com\/food\/quick_and_easy\/gardeners_pie.php) 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil 1 Onion, chopped … Continue reading Gardener’s Shepherd Pie<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow-me-through-my-cooking-journey","category-casseroles-the-perfect-comfort-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aysontespli.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}