{"id":28439,"date":"2014-12-30T09:56:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T13:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blessingsmultiplied.com\/?p=28439"},"modified":"2014-12-30T09:56:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T13:56:19","slug":"recipes-shepherds-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/?p=28439","title":{"rendered":"Recipes:  Easy Shepherd&#8217;s Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/P1300651c.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"P1300651c\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/P1300651c.jpg?resize=320%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The other day when I made Shepherd&#8217;s Pie for dinner I went ahead and made a big batch so I was able to make one casserole for dinner that night and put two in the freezer for busy nights later in the month. \u00a0 The &#8220;Make 1 i&amp; Freeze 1&#8221; recipes come in handy for those days when I cannot make a homemade meal from scratch.\u00a0 It is great when I can plan ahead!\u00a0 Shepherd&#8217;s Pie is not only easy to make it freezes well too.\u00a0 The recipe below makes one 9&#215;13 dish of Shepherd&#8217;s Pie, but I doubled it and split the second one into two 8&#215;8 dishes to freeze for later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shepherd&#8217;s Pie Recipe:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 pound Ground Beef cooked<\/li>\n<li>1 can Green Beans (<em>used french cut, but any will do<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>1 can Mixed Vegetables<\/li>\n<li>1 can Black Beans<\/li>\n<li>1 package Brown Gravy<\/li>\n<li>Mashed Potatoes <em>(homemade or from package, your preference)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cook the ground beef and drain the excess oil.\u00a0 Add all the brown gravy ingredients to the ground beef mixture.\u00a0 Drain the vegetables and gently mix in the green beans, mixed vegetables, and black beans.\u00a0 Let the beef and vegetable mixture cook for 5 to 10 minutes, stirring periodically.\u00a0 Preheat the oven to 350 degree and grease a 9&#215;13 pan (or two 8&#215;8 pans).<\/p>\n<p>While cooking the ground beef and vegetable mixture start preparing your potatoes whether from scratch or from a box or bag. Once the potatoes and beef mixture is done you can put together your Shepherd&#8217;s Pie.\u00a0 The bottom layer will be your beef and vegetable mixture followed by a layer of mash potatoes.\u00a0 You can sprinkle bacon or cheese over the mash potato layer if you prefer as well.\u00a0 Cover and bake the Shepherd&#8217;s Pie at 350 degrees for 30 minutes, uncover and bake for an additional 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/P1300653c.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"P1300653c\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/P1300653c.jpg?resize=521%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"521\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We ate one Shepherd&#8217;s Pie for dinner and these two (pictured above) are going in the freezer to be eaten at a later time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day when I made Shepherd&#8217;s Pie for dinner I went ahead and made a big batch so I was able to make one casserole for dinner that night and put two in the freezer for busy nights later in the month. \u00a0 The &#8220;Make 1 i&amp; Freeze 1&#8221; recipes come in handy for those days when I cannot make a homemade meal from scratch.\u00a0 It is great when I can plan ahead!\u00a0 Shepherd&#8217;s Pie is not only easy to make it freezes well too.\u00a0 The recipe below makes one 9&#215;13 dish of Shepherd&#8217;s Pie, but I doubled it and split the second one into two 8&#215;8 dishes to freeze for later. Shepherd&#8217;s Pie Recipe: 1 pound Ground Beef cooked 1 can Green Beans (used french cut, but any will do) 1 can Mixed Vegetables 1 can Black Beans 1 package Brown Gravy Mashed Potatoes (homemade or from package, your preference) Cook the ground beef and drain the excess oil.\u00a0 Add all the brown gravy ingredients to the ground beef mixture.\u00a0 Drain the vegetables and gently mix in the green beans, mixed vegetables, and black beans.\u00a0 Let the beef and vegetable mixture cook for 5 to 10 minutes, stirring periodically.\u00a0 Preheat the oven to 350 degree and grease a 9&#215;13 pan (or two 8&#215;8 pans). While cooking the ground beef and vegetable mixture start preparing your potatoes whether from scratch or from a box or bag. Once the potatoes and beef mixture is done you can put together your Shepherd&#8217;s Pie.\u00a0 The bottom layer will be your beef and vegetable mixture followed by a layer of mash potatoes.\u00a0 You can sprinkle bacon or cheese over the mash potato layer if you prefer as well.\u00a0 Cover and bake the Shepherd&#8217;s Pie at 350 degrees for 30 minutes, uncover and bake for an additional 15 minutes. We ate one Shepherd&#8217;s Pie for dinner and these two (pictured above) are going in the freezer to be eaten at a later time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[68,77,80,81,23,82,31,48],"tags":[6677,6779,6780,7592,9262,11088,11091,15432,15460,21271,21272],"class_list":["post-28439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fresh-healthy","category-life-simplified","category-menu-planning","category-organization","category-organized-chaos-3","category-recipe","category-schedule","category-whats-cooking","tag-easy-family-dinner-recipes","tag-easy-shepherd-pie-recipe","tag-easy-shepherds-pie","tag-family-dinner","tag-freezer-cooking","tag-ground-beef-casserole","tag-ground-beef-recipe","tag-make-1-and-freeze-1-recipes","tag-make-one-and-freeze-one","tag-shepherd-pie-recipe","tag-shepherds-pie"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcnfwQ-7oH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}