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Shepherd's Pie and French Onion Soup Thursday, August 19, 2010, 09:06 PM

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Today's meal was (unintentionally) comfort food. First the soup: The french onion soup was fairly simple. First I sautéed a lot of onions (french cut) with just pam. Then I added about 3 cups of water and a cup of white wine (thanks Alton Brown for that tip). Then added 4 beef bouillon cubes and a packet of no sodium chicken. I eventually added some more water. After the first taste, I thought the wine was too pronounced so I added another cube. A few notes for the future. First, a bit less wine. It was too strong. Second, I need to get some sodium free bouillon to cut some of the salt.

For the croutons, we toasted a (pam) buttered english muffin and cut that. The cheese was low fat provolone. Since my bowls are (probably) not safe for the oven, let alone the broiler, I used the creme brulee torch to brown and burn the cheese.

The shepherd's pie, pictured cut below, was just onions, ground beef (lean) and some frozen corn and peas. After sautéing the onions and vegetables and browning the beef, we lined the bottom of the pan with it (very bottom photo). The potatoes were a pound of yukon gold potatoes which we boiled for about 20 minutes. I do not know the details because Meredith did it, but the smashed potatoes (we kept the skin on) were made with some greek yogurt (less than 1/2 cup), Molly McButter, butter spray, garlic and onion powder, salt, pepper and a tad of 1/2 and 1/2 to make it creamy. After mixing the two, we baked on 400 for about 20 minutes then broiled for 2 to brown the top. We ended up with too much potato for the beef but it was still good. (The original plan was to use a smaller dish but it grew). The recipe was loosely based on this recipe

Shepherd's Pie (2 dinner/2 lunch)

meat:

8 oz 92/8 ground beef...8

1/2 cup corn + 1/2 cup peas...1.5

Potato

1 lb Yukon Potato...6.5

4 oz ff greek yogurt...2

! Tbsp 1/2+1/2..0.5

Assorted Pam, onions, etc...0.5

Whole pie had 19. Made two dinners and two lunch portions (around 6 and 3 or 4 respectively)

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French Onion Soup (made 2 servings)

1 cup white wine...2

2 slices LF cheese...2

1 Fiber One English muffin...1

Assorted Pam, etc...1

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