Shepherd's Pie Remix

This is one of my favorite go-to meals. It's so super easy to make and assemble, and you do it once and won't have to look at the recipe again.

The original recipe came from Simply Recipes- my favorite source for laid back, easy meals.

Simply Recipe's Easy Shepherd Pie

My recipe follows the same formula:

For the filling:
* 1 package of Jenny-O ground turkey
* 1 onion, finely diced
* A couple of dashes of Worcestershire sauce
* Salt and Pepper to taste
* Pat of butter (around 1 tbsp)
* 2 tbsp of coarse grain Dijon mustard (or more for a real kick)
* 1 package of frozen veggies (I usually get peas and carrots and corn. Last time we got one that also had green beans and it was delish)

Mashed Potatoes: (you can use your own trusty mashed pots recipe)
* 3 russet potatoes (the big baking potatoes kind)
* Butter and milk and salt

- Cook the onions in Pam or a bit of oil or butter until they're nice and translucent (approx 5 minutes on medium heat)
- Prepare your potatoes and get them into the pot of boiling water.
- Add the ground turkey and break apart as it cooks. Cook it for a long time. A lot longer than you think. This will ensure that the turkey is slightly browned and doesn't taste or look steamed or boiled. Steamed/boiled=not good. Also, I have found that cooking it for longer helps to break up the ground turkey to smaller pieces and you get a delicious caramelized flavor from the onions. (approx 15-20 on medium heat)
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Add the Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper. Stir.
- Add butter and Dijon mustard. Stir.
- Add in the frozen veggies and sort of eyeball the turkey/veggie ratio that you want. I usually add about 3/4 of the bag. Stir and continue cooking. The frozen veggies will release some moisture as they cook so you'll want to make sure that's cooked off. But also don't cook too long because you don't want them to get mushy. I would say approximately 5 minutes.
- Drain the potatoes (at any point when they're done) and mash them up. Add some butter (approx 1 tbsp) and milk to the consistency that you like. Throw in some salt too to make them supa tasty.

- Put the ground turkey filling into a casserole dish that has been greased up with some Pam or butter or oil.
- Cover with the mashed potatoes and make patterns in the potatoes if you're feeling silly. You might not use all the mashed pots. The leftovers are good to snack on while you wait for the pie to be out of the oven.
- Lightly sprinkle paprika over the mashed potatoes.
- Bake for approximately 20 minutes, then crank it up to broil for the last 10 minutes.
- Eat nothing but Shepherd's Pie for the next couple of days.