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Father’s Day Dinner – Shepherds Pie
Dinner · Recipes

Father’s Day Dinner – Shepherds Pie

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Binging with Babish’s Shepherds Pie

I have been really excited to share this blog with you! As you know, yesterday was Father’s Day and my husband is a GREAT Daddy to our daughter. We are so lucky to have him in our lives and he is absolutely the BEST Daddy ever, so when he puts a request for a special dinner I am more than happy to oblige! Ever since we’ve been on lockdown from quarantine, we’ve started watching more and more cooking channels on YouTube. We just happened to stumble across this one https://www.youtube.com/user/bgfilms which I highly recommend you go check him out as he makes some of the most amazing dishes! My husband saw his Shepherds Pie and asked if we could try it out, so that’s what I made for his Father’s Day feast (here’s the link to the recipe: https://basicswithbabish.co/basicsepisodes/shepherdspie)

The Shepherds Pie before piping the potatoes. AMAZING!

This recipe has so many wonderful ingredients and is super tasty. I cannot say this enough…fresh herbs…you MUST use fresh herbs! Because this is a meat and potatoes kind of meal it really sticks with you. One thing I was a little worried about at first was the amount of ingredients that we were going to have to buy for one meal, but as it turns out we had almost everything in our kitchen; which means we didn’t break the bank on one recipe.

BWB Shepherds Pie…SO DELICIOUS!

I didn’t have a Demi-Glaze puck as it’s not something that I have on hand in my kitchen, so I made my fresh version which I have shared below. The overall recipe for my Demi-Glaze is easy, tasty and rich which I knew would be a perfect accompaniment to the Shepherds Pie recipe; all of those deep robust flavors really come through with each bite of Binging with Babish’s Shepherds Pie recipe. His recipe is now on our rotation of meals we LOVE! I hope you give it a try and here is my simple Demi-Glaze recipe.

Demi-Glaze

DEMI-GLAZE

Ingredients:

  • 4 cups beef stock
  • 1 Tbsp cornstarch
  • 1 Tbsp water
  • 1 Tbsp unsalted butter

Directions:

  • Add beef stock to a medium size pot and bring to a rapid simmer; reduce heat to medium-low.
  • Reduce stock for 1 1/2 hours.
  • Once stock has reduce by half add a slurry of cornstarch and water; allow to simmer for 10 additional minutes.
  • Remove from heat and add butter.
  • Allow to cool at room temperature until completely cool. Store in an airtight container or freeze for later use.
  • Should make 1 cup of Demi-Glaze.
  • Enjoy!
Nothing Like A Little Pie!
Pie · Recipes

Nothing Like A Little Pie!

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This is my first post and I am super excited to share this with you! My family loves sweet treats, but we rarely have them around the house. Usually we treat ourselves to an ice cream or milkshake out, but since Covid-19 struck we’ve been making our sweet treats at home. Since Memorial Day weekend is different this year I wanted to make something easy yet delicious! I decided to try my hand at making a French Silk Pie and the only thing I can say is “WOW”! It’s crispy crust leads to a chewy brownie, followed by a creamy chocolate filling and finished by a smooth topping of whipped cream with little bits of freshly shaved dark chocolate. You get such a rush of dark chocolate in every bite…so rich and tasty!

This pie is so simple and easy and doesn’t require a ton of clean up (which is my favorite part…LOL). It all starts with a pie crust and a dark chocolate brownie, followed by a cream cheese blend of bittersweet dark chocolate and LOTS of whipped cream. How could that not be tasty, right? I have shared some tips and substitution possibilities below as well as the recipe itself.

Some of the French Silk Pie ingredients that I used to make this delicious pie for my family.

I really enjoy the flavors of dark chocolate over milk chocolate, but you could totally use a milk chocolate brownie mix and milk chocolate bittersweet bar if you prefer that over the dark chocolate flavor. I also like using free range eggs and that’s just a preference that I have, but you could use whatever eggs you’re used to as long as they are large eggs. One tip that I have is that if you forget to put your cream cheese out on the counter to soften, you can always take it out of the foil packaging, place it on a microwaveable plate and zap it for 10 seconds on high. This will help it to soften without cooking it. Now on to the recipe!

French Silk Pie

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 (pkg) of a pre-made pie crust
  • 1 pkg dark chocolate brownie mix
  • 1 (8 oz) block of cream cheese, softened
  • 1 (4 oz) bar of bittersweet dark chocolate, melted and slightly cooled (reserve a half of a piece for garnish)
  • 2 (8 oz) containers of whipped topping, thawed

Directions:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
  • Unroll pie crust and fit to bottom and up sides of a 9-inch pie plate.
  • Prepare brownie mix per the directions on the box and poor onto pie crust. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until brownie and pie crust are done. Cool on wire rack until completely cooled.
  • Using an electric hand mixer, beat softened cream cheese in a medium bowl until well whipped. Add melted dark chocolate and beat at low speed until well blended. Slowly fold in one container of whipped topping.
  • Add chocolate cream cheese mixture to top of cooled brownie. Add the other container of whipped topping onto top of chocolate mixer. Shave dark chocolate onto the pie.
  • Allow to chill at least 4 hours before serving.
  • This recipe serves about 10 people.

I hope you had fun making this pie and I hope that you enjoy it as much as my family does! Remember if you have recipes or tips that you like for me to try, please share them!