sheppard's pie

sheppard's pie

for some reason, this is always one of my favourite comfort foods since i was a kid. i believe its a dish that originated from england and ireland which basically combined leftovers into a casserole. Either my mom made it from scratch when i was a kid.. or it was one of those schneider's microwaveable ones for an afterschool meal. yes, that's right, i always had a meal after i came home from school. Its a major reason i've maintained the gorgeous figure i have today!


so we had it for dinner, basically used 2.5 lbs of ground beef (although ground lamb is good too). i first cooked one large onion diced up, then added the browned beef, frozen corn and a healthy splash of worchester sauce. put this all on the bottom of the casserole dish pan then spread out mash potato in which i mixed in garlic, diced green onion. finished it off by grating parmasean all on top. baked it for about 45mins until it got all golden and crusty on top! and yes, i did use a fork to groove the top of the mash


and of course we had it for lunch the next day =]

drumsticks

drumsticks

I think planning our meals according to grocery sale flyers is a great idea. Your meals can be decided quickly and it saves you money!

Loblaw's had drumsticks on sale, so we decided to have drums sticks for dinner one night. Gabe marinated the drumsticks with some secrete ingredients (i'm not sure what's in it, but maybe he'll tell you!) and then breaded them with panko flakes. The panko flakes made the chicken so tasty! I think we just love everything with a crunch to it.

On the side is a potato stuffed with blue cheese, cream cheese and caramelized onions, and pan fried asparagus as a vegetable.

Gabe's improvised Chicken Fricassee

Gabe's improvised Chicken Fricassee

Hello friends! How have you been? We've been pretty busy spending time with families and friends celebrating Chinese new year and birthdays, but now we're getting back into our normal routines again.

Last week, we made chicken. When Gabe, Will and I met up with Celine and Jin for dinner at the Drake Cafe a couple of weeks ago, I had this Chicken Fricassee that's really tasty, so Gabe brought up the idea of making it on our own. Coincidentally, chicken thighs were on sale in Foody Mart that week for $1.69/lb, how perfect!

For the Chicken Fricassee, Gabe didn't follow a particular recipe. He often doesn't. I think it's pretty cool that he can improvise on almost every dish. It's not something i can do, unless I'm cooking simple Chinese food.

We put in celery, mushroom and carrots in the pot to cook up with the chicken, you need a bit of white wine for the liquid and flavour, we chose to use some fresh oregano too.

On the side, we had baked potatoes, and Caesar salad. Gabe made the Caesar dressing from scratch.



We're going to make chili tomorrow. I'm excited!


What do you have cooking up?