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Hi everyone. Welcome to Katherine's Plate. On
the menu today is shepherd's pie. Two things

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One, when we travel I like to see a shepherd's
pie on the menu because I like the different

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variations that I find. And then two, my husband,
he doesn't like peas and carrots, but he'll

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eat it in this dish. So it's a win-win situation.
So this is a very easy, very simple dish

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It's a comforting dish also. If you're having a
bad stressful day and you come home, I guarantee

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that when you make this dish and it's sitting
in front of you on the table, you're going

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to feel really good about it. So let's get started. Okay, I use russet
potatoes. These are four large russet potatoes. I like to make my own

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mashed potatoes for the top of the shepherd's
pie, but you can certainly use the pre-made

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mashed potatoes in the box from the store
for convenience if you need to. So I take

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the potatoes. I've already peeled them, so
I'm just going to cut these long ways. Cut

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three times right there. And then just
keep them small so that they cook fast

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Oops, lost one. He escaped. Good
thing we've got plenty here

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There we go. Okay, I've got my oven preheating
for 375 degrees. I'm going to go ahead and

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put my potatoes into the water. This is cold
water to start with. I'm going to add some

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salt to flavor the potatoes. Now I'm going to
add my potatoes very carefully. Don't want

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to splash. There we go. So
I'm going to get those started

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Now I'm going to cook up the ground beef and
the onions, so I'm going to add a little bit

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of olive oil to my pan. We're going to start
cooking our onions. Okay, the oil is simmering

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now. We're going to go ahead and add
our onions and start softening those up

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Okay, so these onions are ready to go. They're
nice and soft now, so we're going to go ahead

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and add our ground beef to it. This is one pound.
We're going to use our little meat chopper

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I really need to invest in one of these.
I'm going to heat this a little bit

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I'm going to add about a teaspoon of garlic. Okay, it's almost
done. At this stage, I'm going to go ahead and add a little salt and

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pepper for some flavor. Let's see what we've got

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All right. It's done. All right, we're going to take our
ground beef mixture out now. It's fully cooked. We're

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just going to put it into a bowl for right now. This was a very, very
lean ground beef. Very lean. As you can see, there is no fat in there

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which is good. All right, we're going to set this
aside, and then we're going to start making a little

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roux for this as a thickener. We
need two tablespoons of butter

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We're going to do two. Whisk, whisk, whisk. To
this, I'm going to add two tablespoons of flour

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One, two. We're going to whisk this for
two minutes to get a nice roux going

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Get it all into the little corners there,
and get all that nice flavor into the roux

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Okay, now we're going to add one tablespoon
of Worcestershire to this and stir that in

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Slowly. Now we're going to
add one can of beef broth

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All right, we're going to whisk that for just another minute.
It's starting to thicken up really good. That's what we want

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We're going to poke the potatoes. Oh yeah,
we're almost done. Oh, it smells so good

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That smells comfort to me. All right, we're done with that.
Now we're going to go ahead and put our meat mixture back in

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Give that a stir. Oh yeah. That definitely
smells like shepherd's pie in there

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All right, we're going to let that sit for just a minute. Okay, it's been simmering
for about a minute now, so now I'm going to go ahead and add a can of corn, drained

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That's what goes in my shepherd's pie. You
don't have to put it in if you don't want to

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And then 12 ounces of peas and
carrots. Go ahead and give this a mix

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All right, it is all ready. We're going to put a lid on here and turn it
off and just let it steam by itself while we make our mashed potatoes

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All right, so my potatoes are done. I'm
getting my masher here on the potatoes

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To this, I'm going to add about four tablespoons of butter. These
are your mashed potatoes, so make them the way you like to make them

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One, two, there we go. And I'm going
to add about half a cup of milk

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Oh, that's good right there. All
right, I'm going to start mashing

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Those are really good. I don't know about
y'all, but what goes in mashed potatoes

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I'm going to put in some shredded
cheese. I've got about half of this bag

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I've seen shepherd's pies that have
had cheese all over the top of it

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I'm putting mine in the mashed potatoes,
so they're going to be all mixed up in it

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Let's see. A little bit more. A little
bit more, right? Can you see that

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I'm going to add some salt
and pepper to this. And we mix

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With all these done, I'm going to try
these. Make sure that they're not too hot

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All these done, I'm going to try these. Make sure
that we don't need to add anything else to it

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That is really good. We're going to leave those alone.
Now we're going to go ahead and build our shepherd's pie

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What I'm going to do is I'm going to put
these mashed potatoes into a Ziploc bag

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I'm going to zip it up, cut a hole in it, and that's what I'm going to use to
pipe over my shepherd's pie. I'm going to put a little bit of oil in the pan

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I'm going to put a little bit of oil in the pan.
I'm going to put a little bit of oil in the pan

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I'm going to put a little bit of oil in the pan.
I'm going to put a little bit of oil in the pan

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I'm going to put a little bit of oil in the pan.
I'm going to put a little bit of oil in the pan

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I'm going to put a little bit of oil in the pan.
I'm going to put a little bit of oil in the pan

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I'm going to put a little bit of oil in the pan.
I'm going to put a little bit of oil in the pan

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I'm going to put a little bit of oil in the pan.
I'm going to put a little bit of oil in the pan

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I'm going to put a little bit of oil in the pan.
I'm going to put a little bit of oil in the pan

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I'm going to put a little bit of oil in the pan.
I'm going to put a little bit of oil in the pan

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I'm going to put a little bit of oil in the pan.
I'm going to put a little bit of oil in the pan

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They're going to be so happy that they don't have to go
somewhere to eat, or get something, pick it up, and bring it back

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They're going to be so happy.
Just get the rest of it in there

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There we go. We're going to smooth this
out. I have somebody that wants to eat

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Somebody wants to eat. All right,
I'm going to move this over here

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Put this on here so it doesn't...
Okay, what I'm going to do now

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is I'm going to cut a hole in the bottom of the Ziploc bag.
Then we're going to start piping over the meat mixture

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Hold it up where the hole is.
It's going to probably work

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Then just come, and then
just pipe it out. All right

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Oh my gosh, I can't believe I just had enough.
Ta-da! All right, I'm going to put this in the oven

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It has been preheating at 375 degrees for 30 minutes. All right,
I have just pulled out the shepherd's pie out of the oven

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It's been 30 minutes. Look at
that. Do you all see the layers

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All right, I'm going to sit this on the tray right
here. I'm going to cool it off for just a little bit

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and then I'm going to try it. All right,
it's been sitting for just a few minutes

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just to kind of let it all settle in. Now
I'm going to cut this and just scoop out

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Get some of that goodness there. It
doesn't want to be hurt, does it

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All right, there is my shepherd's
pie. I am ready to dive into this

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Mmm. This is why I like shepherd's pie. This
is a very comforting dish after a long day

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Even traveling, I like to find this on the menus. So,
y'all, give me a big thumbs up for this recipe today

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and like my video. Also, put down in the comments below
if you like shepherd's pie, and what version do you use

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Lamb, stew meat, or regular ground beef, or
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