Yesterday I spent a good 4 hours ‘experimenting’ in the kitchen and it felt glorious! I always love coming home to Mum’s kitchen and looking through the cupboards to see what different ingredients she has that I can make into a new recipe. M

y parents were both working yesterday, so I volunteered to cook dinner.

I have always loved Shepherd’s Pie, so decided to put a simple but delicious twist on the classic dish using sweet potato.

Sweet Potato Shepherd’s Pie

• 1 lb lean ground turkey
• 1 cup grated carrot
• 1 large
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  onion, grated

• 1 cup frozen peas
• 1 lb sweet potato, cut into cubes
• 1/4 cup plain yogurt
• 1 tsp dried rosemary
• 1 tsp olive oil

1. Preheat oven to 350 F ( or 185 C)
2. Peel the sweet potato and cut into cubes, about 1” in size. Steam the potatoes to soften
3. Place steamed potatoes, yogurt and dried rosemary in a food processor and blend until stiff but creamy
4. Heat olive oil in a large skillet and brown ground turkey. Drain the meat and return to the skillet
5. Add peas, carrot and onion to the skillet and combine with meat, stirring for about 2 mins.
6. Lightly coat a casserole dish or deep-dish pie dish with cooking spray and pour the meat mixture in, Pack the mixture fairly firmly into the dish
7. Pour potato mixture over meat, spreading out evenly
8. Bake for 40 mins or until potatoes are slightly browned

This dish received two thumbs up from both Mum and Dad, making it a sure pleaser!

I’m off to have my annual optometrist appointment this afternoon, luckily I had lots of beta-carotene for dinner last night

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…and also possibly invented by a woman??

I am a big fan of the slow cooker, but this has only come about in the last year and a half or so. Before that, I had my slow cooker and used it quite sparingly for the very reason that I hated soaking it and scrubbing it out after each use. One day Kevin’s Mom and I were talking in the kitchen while she was putting some chili in the slow cooker. I told her how I felt about the cleaning up part and she pulled out some slow cooker liners which I had never heard of before. I felt like she had just performed some kind of magic trick!!

These liners simply go into the bowl part of the slow cooker and all ingredients are then placed into the liner.

The bag doesn’t stick or melt onto the ceramic bowl during the cooking process at all.

Once you have emptied out the contents, you simply lift the bag out, throw it away and wipe out the ceramic bowl.

Pretty easy, right?!

When I first told my Mum back in Australia about the liners she laughed at me saying it was one of the laziest things she had heard of. It was only when she came to visit me and made some soup in the slow cooker that she was very easily convinced how great the bags were. She left the U.S with 4

boxes of the liners and continues to stock up on each trip she makes over here, taking some back for friends too.

I totally believe that a woman had to come up with such a brilliant idea as this one

In case you are wondering, the bags are sold in the same section as freezer/zip-lock bags in most grocery stores.

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