Shepherds Pie

This being St. Patty's week I had already been making and planning Irish-themed meals. I couldn't remember if Alton Brown had done a recipe for this dish or not. A quick trip to the Food Network site proved he did, in fact, have a recipe for Shepherd's Pie.

Now, the reality is, since I used beef and not lamb, this would technically be a cottage pie and not a Shepherds Pie. But, no matter what you want to call it, I call it Good Eats.

I will try this with lamb. And I will update.

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Cocoa Brownies

By my standard, a brownie is not a brownie if it is cake-like. As far as I am concerned, a brownie should have a consistency more like fudge than like a baked good. Actually, you cannot legally call it a brownie if it's cake like. That would be chocolate cake sans frosting. 

I like Alton Brown's brownies. Though the show recipe and the recipe on Food Network are slightly different (he has you sift all the dry ingredients together on the show while he has you add the sugars only to the eggs at first, then add the rest of the dry goods in the printed version) I went with the one from the show. And, while chocolaty, I think they would be even tastier using dutched chocolate rather than regular cocoa. And honestly, I don't mind testing out a few theories on building the best brownie. Not at all.

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