Brielle's Avalon

Between paychecks, don’t feel like a trip to the grocery anyway, time to clean out the fridge. Chopped onions from last night that you didn’t put on the pizza, mushrooms leftover from the pizza and the steaks or chops or bit of roast from a couple nights ago! And mashed potatoes! Shepherd’s pie it is!

So. pull the onion out of the fridge. or cut one up. Set it to frying in olive oil, bacon fat, butter, schmaltz…whatever. Toss in the mushrooms. Don’t have mushrooms? Leave ’em out. pull out the last of the leftover chops, steak or roast, cut it down to little pieces and put it in. Got leftover vegies from earlier in the week? Toss them in. You’re basically throwing together a makeshift stew from leftovers.

While you’re waiting for that to cook down pull out a casserole dish or some such cooking thing. Pull out the leftover mashed potatoes. Oil the casserole with butter or olive oil and line the casserole with the mashed potatoes.

Don’t forget to stir the stew-thing. if you have leftover gravy throw that in. If it gets dry and you need to add liquid a bit of beer or wine is nice, but water will do in a pinch. Add it into the mashed potato-lined casserole.

Cheese on top is optional, as are cheese curds.

Bake at 350 until bubbly, the edges start to brown and the cheese (if you put it on) is melted.

Serve as dinner, since it’s a balanced meal, or serve with a salad or biscuits or fresh bread. Wine, beer and milk are yummy with it, too.