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People’s Porter Shepherd’s Pie + Giveaway

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People’s Porter (Foothills Brewing) Shepherd’s Pie

People's Porter Shepherd's Pie

 

I’m feeling frisky this week, y’all!  It’s my birthday month and we’re giving stuff away! Woot!  So, I’m coming at you with an additional post to remind you to wish me a happy birthday enjoy your St. Patrick’s Day holiday and to enter the giveaway for some free food from HelloFresh!  If you’re not familiar with these fine folks, you can find them here.

 

People's Porter Shepherd's Pie

 

We (and again, I mean me and IDK why????) have stepped things up a bit and in the spirit of my birthday and the upcoming holiday, I took the traditional Shepherd’s Pie and, well….. duh!  I added beer! Because why not?  If you want a family friendly version either substitute the beer for beef stock or go with this recipe where I made Shepherd’s Pie and lamented about how the only thing I wished I did different was to add beer.  So I put it in a glass.  What can you do?  I went with the People’s Porter from North Carolina’s own Foothills Brewing because if it’s a beer you want to drink in a glass, it’s a beer you want to cook with.  And I do love their beer any way I can get it!

BTW – this is not a sponsored post and I have not received any compensation from Foothills or anyone else.  I just love good craft beer.

 

People's Porter Shepherd's Pie

 

Anyways, I’m having a birthday and I hope you win a gift!  I’ve teamed up with a bunch of super cool bloggers who know what it’s like to need a break and have someone else put together a meal for you. Who doesn’t need a break now and then?  Scroll down to see the widget to enter and be sure to check out some of the other websites!  Good luck!

 

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People's Porter Shepherd's Pie

Holiday Breakfast Casserole

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Can y’all believe that Christmas is next week?  Where did the time go?

 

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I just want to take a minute to say a huge thank you to all of you, my friends, for your kindness and support while we are in this crisis with Chris’ dad.  It’s an ongoing challenge and we’re hopeful because we’re seeing improvement.  He’s such a big teddy bear sweetheart and it’s been so heartbreaking to see him in this condition.  Chris and I are working on things every single day to get him the help he needs. It’s an exhausting process, but totally worth it because things are improving. We so appreciate all of you, your positive thoughts, and your kind words. We’re hopeful for a Christmas miracle and the positive steps we are seeing right now is enough to bring me to tears.

 

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Moving onward.  Happy Holidays!  We were invited to our friends’ Hanukkah celebration last weekend and it was so much fun!  The food was awesome and I had matzo ball soup for the first time ever and loved it!  There were delicious latkes too!  And did I mention that my friends are chefs?  Lucky us!  It was a really nice evening spent with some really terrific friends. The laughs we had were both needed and priceless.

 

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Now we’re moving on to Christmas.  Chris’ mom always made this delicious breakfast casserole for Christmas morning.  Neither of us ever thought to get the recipe from her so the other day we talking about it and the kids and Christmases of the past when the kids were little and we were younger….

 

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And sleigh bells were ringing outside, presents were wrapped (for the most part), and cookies were set out for Santa.

 

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Jeeze!  Can somebody stop me?  Or bring me some wine?  Beer?  Bourbon?  This trip down memory lane is too much!

 

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Let’s talk breakfast casserole.  You can’t go wrong with shredded potatoes, cheese, and sausage.  I confess.  There’s cream of mushroom soup from a can in here.

 

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We’re feeling nostalgic and cream of mushroom soup in a can casserole is totally retro.  Don’t judge me.

 

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Happy Holidays, y’all!

 

P.S. I totally thought I had this scheduled to publish yesterday as my regular Thursday post, but here we are a day late and I’ve been so busy I didn’t even notice.  It’s happened before and I’m fairly certain it will happen again.  Happy Friday!

 

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Holiday Breakfast Casserole

Ingredients

  • 1 pound bag frozen hash brown shredded potatoes thawed
  • 2 cans cream of mushroom soup
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1 onion diced very small
  • 12 sausage links cooked and broken into pieces
  • 8 ounces shredded sharp cheddar cheese

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350
  2. Add potatoes, soup, sour cream, onion, sausage and 3/4 of the cheese in a mixing bowl and stir until combined
  3. Transfer to a casserole dish coated with cooking spray
  4. Top with remaining cheddar cheese
  5. Bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes or until top is golden brown and bubbly
  6. Let cool for 10 - 15 minutes before serving

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