Turkey Shepards Pie

So,

I tried my first recipe from the book. I was feeling for a "comfort food", so I headed to the Comfort Food section and made the first thing on the list.

It was delicious and I made it as written as to have lots of leftovers. In fact I am going to have the final quarter of it today for lunch. *YUM

A few things I found out about this cookbook:

1. It's nice to think that these meals will take thirty minutes to make, but I am doubtful, this one took me about an hour to do......Then again, I am not Rachael Ray (good call). It likely does take her 30 minutes to whip up this wonderful meal.

2. I might need to consider getting some all purpose flour, whole wheat flour just does not thicken the same.

3. Skipping the egg on the mashed potatoes was my best choice ever :D

4. Although I am not a huge fan of sour cream, I think it is what made the recipe better :D

5. Turkey bacon is delicious. Although If you are going to post that regular bacon is better, I will just have to take your word for it, since I haven't eaten pork for a very very very long time.

In all I am satifisfied with the book. Of course I have only made one thing/have yet to spend up to an hour making something that is disgusting and wanted to toss out the book.


In other news: I decided finally to give up bottled water for Lent........It's a tradition for me to participate non-religiously in Lent every year.

Why bottled water?

For one thing, I spend way too much money on it.........It's more expensive to purchase bottled water than it is to buy gas (which is wrong on a number of levels). For another, North Vancouver has some of the best water in the world, why would I buy water that is less good from some place else when I can get it for free.... Finally, the school just installed some new chilling water fountains, I'm trying to get more people to use them, so maybe they will install more fountains more places in the school.

So far it has been going well. Although I think I lost a water bottle along the way and will have to replace it.... :( . Although I will have to replace it for Peru anyways....... :D

So in summary: The cookbook is good and I didn't eat out ALL WEEK!!!!! and drinking regular water is good too :D, which means in general.....life is pretty good right now.......because all of the above is helping me save money for my Peru adventure....(paying for the Spanish school is coming up which will make my budget pretty tight for the next few months)

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