{"id":847,"date":"2012-04-02T21:15:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T01:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conniesmithson.com\/?p=847"},"modified":"2012-04-02T21:15:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T01:15:16","slug":"shepards-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/2012\/04\/02\/shepards-pie\/","title":{"rendered":"Shepard&#8217;s pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shepard&#8217;s pie comes in so many variations that I couldn&#8217;t be able to count them. My daughters boy friend who is a guest here until Saturday, wanted to contribute to one of our evening meals. I told him to go for it, and my husband took him and our daughter on their first &#8220;grocery trip&#8221; together. When they got home, they had gotten the ingredients Keg (we will call him) needed to make his take on the Shepard&#8217;s pie.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit that I tried not to hover, but I absolutely hate to have someone messing around in my kitchen. I even have a problem with my kids and husband cooking something in my kitchen. I mean, it was nice the young man wanted to contribute and show off his cooking abilities, but it still felt odd for me. Instead of hovering, I gave him a bag of potatoes, which I had told him I already had, then left the room. One other truth be known, I was sort of hoping my daughter would learn a few tips on preparing and cooking a new dish. She can bake like hell wouldn&#8217;t have it, but to say she is handy in the kitchen, would be a lie.<\/p>\n<p>Keg&#8217;s mean tuned out wonderful. Yes, I was surprised. My two son&#8217;s and grandson loved it, V loved it, and I liked it. V did learn how to mash potatoes, somewhat. And bless Keg&#8217;s heart&#8230;he doesn&#8217;t measure, and cooks similar to the way I do. I don&#8217;t measure and it&#8217;s all basically taste test. I&#8217;m going to send the recipe to my blogging buddy Lindsay. She is starting to collect recipes for her blog. Her blog\u00a0 is comprised of a little of everything. She knows my family, as she has kids the same age as I do, which is why we hit it off so well, so it&#8217;s going to be a sort of\u00a0 &#8221; Family and extended Family Cookbook ,&#8221;\u00a0 which will fit right into her blog, since she has many hobbies and life stuff happening&#8230; but that is all I&#8217;m going to tell you about her surprises. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shepard&#8217;s pie comes in so many variations that I couldn&#8217;t be able to count them. My daughters boy friend who is a guest here until Saturday, wanted to contribute to one of our evening meals. I told him to go for it, and my husband took him and our daughter on their first &#8220;grocery trip&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/2012\/04\/02\/shepards-pie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shepard&#8217;s pie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[129,325,376,467,518,746,833],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-dining","tag-blogging","tag-family-2","tag-friends-2","tag-hobbies","tag-kids","tag-recipes","tag-shopping-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}