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Tue May 25, 2021, 09:56 PM

May 2021

seasoning and veggies..to make one of the best Beef Shepherds Pie EVAH!..I didn't want to scare you away from cooking...WOW!!!! You fooled me with MC's cook and serve..

Enjoy, you earned it!!!

- for your next inspiration, tonight I baked 2 large potatoes, washed, and salt and peppered with butter in foil..375 for about 2 hours.. - once done, split the potato down middle and coarsely smash, butter lightly, top with Ham cubed (cooked in fry pan on low with brown sugar and maple syrup), couple pieces of bacon, broken up into bits, sprinkled shredded cheese on top and drizzled the brown sugar, maple syrup from the ham cooking - baked at 350 another 15 minutes or so, until cheese is melted...Oh my -

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Thanks Marie Callender! [View all] OAITW r.2.0 May 2021 OP

They closed the only Marie Callender's in the region a number of years ago. Aristus May 2021 #1

I ate at the Spokane Marie Callender's I think two days before all those guys showed up for brewens May 2021 #6

No. Federal Way. Aristus May 2021 #10

I knew a guy who was working at the Seattle Marie Callendar's when they came in to close it. FuzzyRabbit May 2021 #22

Any idea why the closings were so abrupt? Aristus May 2021 #23

The corporate bigwigs probably thought if they gave the employees any warning FuzzyRabbit May 2021 #25

I haven't tried it True Dough May 2021 #2

LOL, there's no accounting for individual tastes! OAITW r.2.0 May 2021 #5

Those are probably written by Swansons employees FoxNewsSucks May 2021 #7

That's true True Dough May 2021 #9

Wouldn't be the first time that's happened! OAITW r.2.0 May 2021 #11

I've got the chicken version dweller May 2021 #3

That's my guilty pleasure! Scrivener7 May 2021 #12

Cool dweller May 2021 #13

Now this is my kind of cooking thread! Shermann May 2021 #4

Those are the best as far as frozen dinners go. I went full on whole food home cooking brewens May 2021 #8

Their chicken pot pies are my fave. flying rabbit May 2021 #14

Oh for heavens sake..cook up some hamburg..at least 85%.... asiliveandbreathe May 2021 #15

Well, when you spend 7 hours outside moving 2 cubic yards of topsoil to your raised beds.... OAITW r.2.0 May 2021 #16

That's funny...well we moved 10 ton of pebble gravel between the two of us, asiliveandbreathe May 2021 #17

I've been using a 22" 5 HP pushmover....and that's only 1/2 of the grass. Plus, I have a OAITW r.2.0 May 2021 #18

Yep..22" 5hp push mower sounds about right..many years ago when we had asiliveandbreathe May 2021 #19

My thoughts exactly! OAITW r.2.0 May 2021 #20

You have shamed / inspired me into making my own, from scratch, Sheppard's Pie, later today.. OAITW r.2.0 May 2021 #26

My Shepard's Pie just went in.... OAITW r.2.0 May 2021 #27

Not only do you know HOW to cook..you know all the ins and outs of asiliveandbreathe May 2021 #28

OMG.....book-marking this convo to my recipe links. That sounds wonderful. OAITW r.2.0 May 2021 #29

So glad to hear your SP was so flavorful - my compliments to the chef.. asiliveandbreathe May 2021 #30

my wife and her family always want corn in their "shepherd's" pie OriginalGeek May 2021 #31

Thanks for the hint lillypaddle May 2021 #21

I'm also a Marie Callender devotee. zanana1 May 2021 #24

we always have a Costco pack of MC Chicken Pot Pies OriginalGeek May 2021 #32