Shepherd's Pie!

Hey hey! Okay, Since I have the time to post what I've made over the holidays before school start, I'll post a "Cook" now.

Shepherd's Pie!

What you'll need
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- 6 small potatoes or 4 medium potatoes, chopped into chunks
- 1 large onion, chopped and diced
- 125g of unsalted butter
- 250ml of milk
- 300g of minced chicken or any other meat you desire e.g Beef
- Salt & Pepper
- A dash of Light Soy Sauce
Optional
- A dash of brandy.

Here's how to do it!

1. Pre-heat your oven to 190 degrees C.

2. Place the potatoes into a pot and fill the pot with enough water to cover the potatoes and add a teaspoon of salt. Boil Potatoes until soft

3. While waiting for the potatoes to get soft, marinate your minced meat with salt, pepper and soy sauce.
3(a). If you want your meat to be more flavorful, add a dash of brandy.

4. Set the meat to rest and go ahead and line your ceramic ware with aluminium foil. This ensures faster clean up! *Thumbs Up*

5. Once the potatoes are soft, drain the water and leave the potatoes in the pot. Turn off the heat.

6. Using a whisk or a masher, roughly mash the potatoes and add butter and milk in at intervals, mixing them very well together.
***If you want your mashed potatoes to be smooth and soft, add more milk. milk helps to improve the texture of the mashed potatoes.***

7. Season the mashed potatoes with salt and pepper. Set aside.

Time to fry your meat and onions!
8. Fry the onions on a lightly oiled pan until fragrant and slightly translucent.

9. Add the minced meat in and fry together with the onion.
*** Separate the meat from one clump by breaking the meat up using your spatula or a wooden paddle***

10. Set the cooked meat to cool.

11. Spread a layer of mash potatoes onto the aluminium foil lined ceramic ware, followed by a layer of meat and lastly cover up with mash potatoes.

12. Put your shepherd's pie into the oven and leave it in there for about 20-25 minutes or until the mashed potatoes are golden brown.

13. Once done, Remove from oven. You can leave it to cool for a while or you can eat it piping hot!

Enjoy!

Printable Recipes Available Here! : Print Page

Chocolate Chip Cookies! Full Chocolate & Normal!

Hello People! YES! This is the first entry. =D
All right, as surveyed on my own Facebook, Friends voted for baked instead of cook.
so... Today's baked item, is none other than the classic chocolate chip cookies.
Chocolate Chip Cookies : Double Choc & Normal

**Note: I used double quantity to make the normal and double choc.**

What you'll need
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- 150g plain flour, sifted- 75g butter, softened at room temp
- 75g sugar
- 1/2 egg, beaten slightly
- few drops of vanilla essence

Normal Choco-chip cookies
- 60g chocolate chips
Full Choco-chip
- 50g cocoa powder, sifted- 40g semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted
- 60g white chocolate chips

Here's how to do it.

1. Grease baking tray or cookie sheet, and set your oven to 190 degrees C.

2. Cream butter and sugar together.

3. Slowly add the beaten egg, bit by bit at a time and mix until smooth.

3(a). For Double choc, melt the chocolate down and add the chocolate in after the egg

4. Add the flour in batches and mix well to form a pliable dough.

4(a). For Double choc, add the cocoa powder along with the flour

5. Once you got the dough ready, it's time to add the ChocoChips ! YUM!

5(a). For Double Choc, you may want to use the normal milk ChocoChips, But I like the white ones in 'em. :D

6. Roll or shape your cookie dough and place 'em onto the cookie sheet and bake 'em in the oven for 15-20 minutes or till golden brown.

**You might want to peep at your lovelies once in while and see how they are doing. It's a Gleeful thing to see! **

7. When the cookies are done, take it out from the oven and leave to cool.

8. YOU'RE READY TO MUNCH ON THEM! YAY! *tosses confetti*

Where's the pictures? Hope you don't mind my 'noob' photoshop-ping. :D

Printable recipe available here! : print page