{"id":537,"date":"2008-01-30T08:38:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T13:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=537"},"modified":"2008-01-30T08:38:37","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T13:38:37","slug":"What's Cooking... Shepherd's Pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"What’s Cooking… Shepherd’s Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comfort food, pure and simple. Someone brought this to a church dinner a couple weeks ago, and I was stunned at how delicious something so not-pretty could be. YUM. We had it last night for dinner, and it was super easy and just as tasty as I’d remembered. It’s straight from the Kraft Foods magazine<\/a> (sign up for the free magazine, if you haven’t already! YUM… one of my favorite pieces of mail!). <\/p>\n

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Easy Shepherd’s Pie<\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\n
    \n
  • 1 lb.
    \n\t\t\t\t\t\tground beef<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  • \n\t\t\t\t\t\t2 cups
    \n\t\t\t\t\t\thot mashed potatoes<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  • \n\t\t\t\t\t\t4 oz.
    \n\t\t\t\t\t\t(1\/2 of 8-oz. pkg.) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, cubed<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  • \n\t\t\t\t\t\t1 cup
    \n\t\t\t\t\t\tKRAFT Shredded Cheddar Cheese, divided<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  • \n\t\t\t\t\t\t2 cloves
    \n\t\t\t\t\t\tgarlic, minced<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  • \n\t\t\t\t\t\t4 cups
    \n\t\t\t\t\t\tfrozen mixed vegetables, thawed<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
  • \n\t\t\t\t\t\t1 cup
    \n\t\t\t\t\t\tbeef gravy\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
    \n
    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
    \n
    \n

    \n\t\t\t\tPREHEAT <\/strong>oven to
    \n375\u00baF. Brown meat in large skillet. Meanwhile, mix potatoes, cream
    \ncheese, 1\/2 cup of the shredded cheese and the garlic until well
    \nblended. <\/p>\n

    \n\t\t\t\tDRAIN <\/strong>meat. Return to
    \nskillet; stir in vegetables and gravy. Spoon into 9-inch square baking
    \ndish; cover with potato mixture and remaining 1\/2 cup shredded cheese. <\/p>\n

    \n\t\t\t\tBAKE <\/strong>20 min. or until heated through.\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

    <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Comfort food, pure and simple. Someone brought this to a church dinner a couple weeks ago, and I was stunned at how delicious something so not-pretty could be. YUM. We had it last night for dinner, and it was super easy and just as tasty as I’d remembered. It’s straight from the Kraft Foods magazine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-8F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}