These days are even busier. Working 10 hour days and occasional weekends means that there's very little time for doing anything else so I cook as little as possible during this time of year. Some weeks, I'll buy a cooked chicken, cook some vegetables, or use frozen ones, and cook some rice. Simple, easy, and I stick the bones into the freezer and make stock at a later date.
This past weekend, on Sunday, I had some potatoes, 2 pounds maybe, an onion, some left over 1/3rd of a block of cheddar cheese, and half a bag of frozen peas and some ground beef 2-3 pounds perhaps.
I diced the onion and mixed it with the meat, along with some worchestershire sauce, ketchup, onion powder, garlic salt, garlic powder, crushed garlic, black pepper and some other spice. It was a sort of pepper powder, perhaps poblano. I also shredded half the cheese and mixed it into the meat as well. I patted this down at the bottom of a foil lined pan and then layered the peas on top.
I then used the kitchenaid attachment to the mixer, a food slicer, and ran the potatoes through this, which grated them nicely and I spread that over the top. The slicer always leaves the last layer behind which either gets stuck, or just stays in the hopper so I collected each of those last bits of potato, diced them up and also added it to the potato layer which was then seasoned with garlic salt and pepper. I added the remaining shredded cheese on top which was also shredded by the kitchenaid.
It hasn't turned out too bad and was pretty simple to make. I've eaten it with salsa, drained yogurt and standard burger condiments. Since it's like a shepards pie, I do like the drained yogurt, or sour cream. I usually have it with some rice.
If I make it again, I'd add some diced tomatoes, and perhaps put some or all the potato on the bottom. Somehow the potato on top darkened as if it was exposed to too much air.
