recipes

Simple Shepherd’s Pie For those who dislike most vegetables and anything overtly healthy. 😉 Need: 1 lb. ground beef 1 cup hot gravy 2 cups hot mashed potatoes 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese (or mix of cheddar and something else) Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brown the ground beef with seasonings of your choice (onion powder, salt, pepper.) Combine with gravy and layer in bottom of oven-safe dish. Smooth …

Basically a rice meatloaf molded into meatballs rather than a loaf, for faster cook time and easier serving. It’s a great hit with the kids, too. 😉 It gets its name from the rice which protrudes out on all sides, like a rolled up prickly porcupine. ( I dunno, maybe it’s a Southern thing.) 🙂 My mom used to make these a lot when I was a kid and we …

The Family Casserole recipe has been requested and of course I’m happy to oblige. It’s not a secret (at least I don’t think it is…) 😉 Apparently this is something that my mother-in-law made one day when my husband was young after digging through a half-empty pantry. I don’t think she imagined her grandkids would be eating it. But her children loved it and my husband still loves it. “It” …