Shepherd's Pie

For the Burgeners, here be me Shepherd's pie recipe.

Incredients:

1 cup grated cheese
1 lb chopped sirloin (aka stew meat)
several red potatoes
1/2 ts black pepper
4 cups water
Garlic salt
1 onion
1 green pepper
1/2 cup corn
a few stalks of celery
several carrots
1 tbs ranch dressing
4 strips of bacon
1/4-1/2 cup butter
1 packet gravy mix
several chopped green onions

This recipe is prepared in 3 different parts, the stew, the potatoes, and the pie.

The Stew:
First you'll want to chop up all of your carrots, celery, green pepper and onion.
Next, brown your meat in a skillit pan, and salt it heavily not to the point that you'll be gagging on it, but past what you'd normally salt it. The salt gets into the meat, and bleeds out while it boils into the stew to season the whole thing alla ye olde irish recipes.
When the meat is browned you'll want to leave the drippings in the pan, add your vegetables (corn included), 4 cups of water, and gravy seasoning. Beef gravy works well, but strangely enough I've found that turkey gravy actually makes for better tasting beef stew. Weird, yes, but there it is.
Cover the pan, reduce the heat to medium-ish, and let it boil until the vegetables are cooked through. You may need to add more salt, taste it to make sure. Add black pepper, as much or as little as you choose.

When the vegetables have cooked through remove the cover and turn the heat back up to high. You'll want to cook off every single bit of the water now, not just until it thickens. You'll need to constantly stir it until it turns into a sort of sludge around your meat and vegetables, and there's no liquid left in the pan. You need it to be as thick as you can possibly get it without burning it.

The Potatoes:

First you'll want to cook your bacon. Crisp it until it's almost, but not quite burnt, remove it from the pan, and let it dry/cool. Save the grease.

Next you'll want to cut up your potatoes and boil them. Smaller pieces cook faster. I normally leave the peels on because it adds a little bit of color, but you can peel them if you want.

Boil the potatos on high until they're cooked through and drain the water. Pour in the bacon grease, the ranch dressing, and the butter, you may or may not need all of the butter. You'll then want to mash them all together until there are no lumps left in the potatoes and it becomes a thick paste just a little bit more runny than mashed potatoes

Take the bacon, chop it up into small pieces and mix it in with the potatoes.

The Pie:

Preheat oven to 350

Pour stew into a 9 inch baking pan and spread out smoothly and evenly.

Pour the potatoes on top of it and spread out smoothely and evenly as well.

Cover the top with grated cheese and put into the oven. Bake until the cheese is melted.

Chop up your green onions and sprinkle them on top once the cheese has melted.

Serves 4-6 peoples, and makes enough dirty dishes for 12.