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Shepherd’s Pie VI - Adapted from allrecipes.com [recipe link]

Ingredients:

• 4 large potatoes, peeled and cubed
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 tablespoon finely chopped onion
• 1/4 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
• salt and pepper to taste
• 5 carrots, chopped
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 pound lean ground beef
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1 cup of water
• 1 packet of brown gravy powder
• 1/4 cup worcester sauce
• 2 tablespoons ketchup
• 1/4 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
• 3 cloves garlic
• 1 1/2 cup mixed frozen veggies

Directions:

1. Wash, peel, and cut potatoes into 1/2” pieces
2. Peel carrots
3. Boil a big pot of water and add some salt.  Add potatoes and carrots and boil for 15 minutes.
4. Chop or mash carrots and set aside
5. Mash potatoes with butter, cheese, onion and garlic.  Add salt and pepper to taste.
6. In a skillet, cook onions until clear.  Add beef and till brown, then add the water, gravy powder, flour, ketchup, and worcester sauce.  Add the Simmer until it starts to get thick.  Then add the mixed veggies and mix!
7. Lay the meat mixture at the bottom of the casserole pan, then add the carrots then mashed potatoes on top.  To make it look nice, fluff the potatoes with a fork and then sprinkle cheese of top.
8. Bake for 20 minutes at 375 degrees.
9. Then, set the oven to broil and broil for 3-5 minutes, checking often until the tips of the potatoes are brown and crispy!
10. Enjoy!!!!!

September 28th, 2009 - Dinner

1) Tex-Mex Bacon-Wrapped Chicken Nuggets! [recipe link] This is soooooo tasty!! But so bad for you X_x

2) 2 parts Hoisin Sauce + 1 part Peanut Butter + water…heat in a sauce pan under low heat and adjust portions to taste!

3) boil vermicelli noodles, boil pork belly + slice, put it all on a rice paper wrapper with lettuce and wrap it up!

4) gotta wrap it up with some tasty healthy fruit!  Got these at a stand by Fruitvale BART for $2/pound…I think I got ripped off but the fruit was hella sweet and yummy…so no regrets!

Dinner tonight: OKONOMIYAKI!! soooo yummy!!  Went to an Asian market on 16th street and Mission before heading home after Public Allies training.  Only spent 5 bucks for tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, dozen eggs, 2 lemons and CABBAGE!  HELLA CHEAP!  Decided to make Okonomiyaki for dinner =]  cheap and filling!

Found a recipe here: [Recipe Link], modified to serve two (eventually made 2.5 okonomiyakis)

Modifications:  Added some dashi powder to the water.  Left out the bacon…instead got imitation crab, teriyaki marinated chicken, pork that my mom marinated, squid, and onion chopped up into little pieces.  First I sautéed onions, then threw in the meats and seafood and cooked them most of the way through.  Removed everything into a holding bowl.  Added about half the cabbage mixture and pressed it down with a spatula.  After it cooked for a bit, I added the meat/seafood mix to the top of the cooking cabbage pancake…swished it around and FLIP!  SKILLZZ!! (ask me if you wanna learn how to do it and I’ll teach you, hehe)  Cook it for a while on that side, flip again, making sure its CRISPY and cooked all the way through.  Then put on a plate, add the okonomiyaki sauce (aka worchester sauce), japanese mayo, and sprinkle on Nori Fumi Furikake rice seasoning…then you’re done!

YUMMM!!! Enjoy!!!

Dinner for Tuesday the 15th!

Tried Veri Veri Teriyaki that I bought while it was on sale from Berkeley Bowl.  Marinated overnight.  It was okay…not bad, but not the best.  With a side of deviled eggs (boiled, yolk mixed with a little mayo, salt, pepper and pipped into eggs w/ a ziplock bag and sprinkled with red chili powder), broccoli from the day before, and bok choy!