ground beef pie

well, i'm not sure what to call this dish, really, so ground beef pie, it is!

the original recipe is from allrecipes.com, but here's what i did.

from the kitchen and pantry, you'll need:

a preheated oven to 400 degrees
a skillet
a pie dish
1 pound of grass fed ground beef
1-2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
2 free-range chicken eggs, beaten
1 1/2 cups of milk or heavy cream
1 cup of bob's red mill biscuit mix
a big ol' tub of sour cream
salt and pepper to taste

in your skillet, brown your beef and make sure it is cooked thoroughly. i usually add a little olive oil to the pan when heating up.

as the beef is cooking, beat your two eggs, and combine with 1 1/2 cups of milk or cream. i used cream. it's awesome. then slowly add your cup of biscuit mix. you can use this time to grate your cheese. i went with closer to two cups of cheese around this time, and it was so worth all that grating.

after your beef is cooked, put this in the bottom of the pie dish. put your grated cheese on top of that and generously salt and pepper the heck out of that dish. when you're done, pour on that delicious biscuit mix, and pop it into the oven for about 35 minutes.

when you're done, you have a beautiful beef pie. ta da!

here's a tip for you, if you don't already do this. whenever i am cooking something in a pie dish, or shoot, even cupcakes...i almost always put it on top of a baking sheet. it helps my clumsy self balance everything and not end up with beef pie in the bottom of the oven.

i topped these slices of pie off with a generous dollop of sour cream, and threw together a little salad using a pound of tomatoes, 2 avos and about 3 tbs of lemon juice tossed together.

look at that biscuit-topping goodness!

before we calculate, let me just say that i almost always have on hand milk, sugar, butter, broth, flour and things like olive oil and lemon juice, so i won't normally throw this into my totals. also, i'll only include the amount actually used from the package--like i got a dozen free range eggs for $3.99, so divide out, i spent $1.33 on just two eggs for this recipe. i buy from local farms, organic and free-range wherever possible.

so, we got five big whoppin' meals out of this. let's see where we stand.
a pound of grass fed ground beef , $7.99 
cheddar cheese, $2.59 for a block and i used the whole thing!
free-range chicken eggs, $1.33
bob's red mill biscuit mix, $1.25
tub of sour cream, $3.99

that's a total of $17.15, not bad! since we had five slices, that's $3.43 a serving.

and for the salad:
avocados, $2.59
right off the vine tomatoes, $2.99

that's a total of $5.58.

all in all we spent $23.16 on this meal, or $4.63 a serving. not to bad. this came out a little on the high end for me, but still within the budget.

if you make this, let me know how you like it! thanks for reading.