| ground beef | onion (spanish is good) |
| carrots | green pepper |
| potatoes | bread |
| milk | grated monterey jack cheese |
| eggs | salt, pepper, garlic powder, paprika, allspice, cumin |
Hmmm, ok, time to make dinner... The wife suggests a meat pie. Say, that sounds good. We even have a pie dish now, yowza.
Take out two hamburger balls to defrost, as well as carrots, a green pepper, and half an onion (spanish).
While meat is defrosting, cut up a carrot (after skinning it), half the green pepper, and the onion. Put meat in pie dish and sprinkle cut vegetables on top. Take our remaining white bread (home-made with bread machine) and soak it in milk. Add to pie-dish and mix things around a bit by hand. Hmmmm, add some seasonings... Without measuring I sprinkled in salt, pepper, garlic powder, and paprika. Mix some more, make sure everything is spread around evenly.
Woops. Forgot the potatoes. Get two out, nuke 'em for 3 minutes on high. Remove from microwave, burn fingers. Run under cold water. Cut half-cooked potatos into largish chunks (bite-sized) and add to pie-dish. Mix around again. Ok, NOW it's done... Put in oven at 400 degrees.
After a while (um, 20 minutes?) mix remaining milk with two eggs. Add some allspice, cumin, paprika, and grated cheese. Mix thoroughly by hand with a fork, then open oven and pour mixture into pie-pan. Watch cheese clump to bottom of measuring cup. Hmph. Fork out cheese and spread loosely over pie. Close oven, continue to bake.
When the "crust" was cooked and the cheese was golden brown, removed from oven. Cut into quarters, served with dollop of sour-cream.
All in all, a truely succesful experiment. Unfortunately, when I cook I tend to do it this way and thus don't *measure* what I use. The seasoning was a bit off (potatoes shoulda been salted seperately or something) but it didn't ake too much time to prepare and was a good, self-contained meal (bowl food as we call it).