The Craftiest Workshop

I often hear people say that they have bought a Shepherd’s Pie from Costco or the grocery store for dinner. I always wonder in my head why they don’t just make one. The ingredients aren’t expensive and it doesn’t take very long especially if you need to use up leftover mashed potatoes after Thanksgiving or Christmas. At other times I just need one of those feel good home cooked meals especially in the cooler months.

My friend Jana asked me how I make mine so I figured I would put it in a post.

Ingredients

potatoes 5-6 medium peeled and cut into 1 inch pieces

1/2 cup Hellava Good french onion dip

2 Tbsp Lactancia garlic butter

1 lb ground beef

1 small onion diced

3 cloves of garlic minced

5-6 mushroom cut into small pieces

1 can of peaches and cream corn

1 can cream of mushroom soup (cream of garlic and mushroom is even better)

Garlic Plus seasoning

1 1/2 cups shredded marble cheese

salt and pepper to taste

Directions

Cover the cut up potatoes with water in a medium sauce pan. Add a bit of salt.

Boil until potatoes are soft then drain the water. You could keep the water for soup.

Add the Hellava Good and garlic butter. Mash with a potato masher. If it seems not creamy enough add more of the dip or a bit of milk. Using an immersion blender works even better to make the potatoes taste even creamier.

In a frying pan, sauté the onion, garlic and mushrooms a few minutes until soft.

Add the ground beef and cook until no longer pink. Drain the fat.

Add the mushroom soup to the meat and cook a few minutes until heated through. I add garlic plus seasoning just sprinkling to cover the top then stir it in. Add pepper to taste.

Grease a medium casserole dish and add the ground beef/soup mixture.

Next comes the can of corn speading it out evenly.

The mashed potatoes get added next.

Sprinkle the top with shredded marble cheese.

Cook in a 350° oven for 40 min or bubbling. Broil until the cheese just starts to brown

Spoon out and enjoy.

If you have never made mashed potatoes with this dip, you should try it. Costco sells a two pack of the dip for a good price. I won’t ever go back to just milk and butter. The garlic butter just adds a bit a flavour in there as well. For me, the corn always has to be peaches and cream as it is sweeter and you can always use thawed frozen corn instead of canned.

It is a hearty and tasty meal to warm you up from the inside out.