Baby Baby Shepherd’s Pie

Right before Thanksgiving, Matt and I had some extra pie crust on hand, so we indulged ourselves and had some shepherd’s pie.  Baby Baby Shepherd’s Pie, in fact.  You could also call it Double Baby Shepherd’s pie.  Baby Squared Shepherd’s pie….etc.  Why are we calling it this? It is deliciously filled with both lamb and veal! So so delicious.  Whole Foods had gorgeous looking ground lamb and veal, so we bypassed the ground chuck and used 1/4 pound of each.  Along with some frozen and fresh veggies, tomatoes, some yummy seasoning, it all came together for a really tasty meal that we got a lot of comfort out of.  Don’t forget the mashed potatoes on top.  Pretty, huh??  To get it all nice and brown, I used our spray butter (when did we get this???) that was in the back of the fridge.  Love it.

Shepherd’s pie is one of my favorites.  One of the first real dishes I made from a recipe and figured out how to just make it work on my own.  So this was just a hodge podge of what we had and a sauce made around that, and thus I have no actual recipe to give you.  It’s pretty easy…some semblance of a meaty, vegetable-filled stew type deliciousness, in a crust (or not), topped with mashed potatoes.  If you don’t have the patience to pipe steaming hot potatoes on top (I was impatient, and really wanting browned peaks and thus burnt my hands in the process of this whole thing), you can just spread them on in a flat layer.  It will still be tasty.  Really, when you call something “Baby Baby Shepherd’s Pie,” people aren’t so concerned with whether you have browned peaks of potato on top.

Yes, we are absurd.  Yes, if you love adorable baby animals and don’t appreciate the meat-eating-ness of some people, it might be slightly offensive to reference the babies in the title of the meal.  I apologize.  For real.

Also, we served it with a salad….that makes up for some of the absurdity, right?

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