Tonights Dinner

The daily question of what to make for dinner was upon me once again this morning.  Steve had cut out a recipe for some potato casserole with celery root from Country Living magazine to make some time this week. He gave me a list of things to buy for it, including celery root, which has to be one of the ugliest vegetables ever.  It looks like a big round ball covered in dirt.  Anyway we wound up going out to PF Changs on Tuesday night (and it was so good) so he didn't make it.  Wednesday night I just cook for the kids so we had cheese quesadillas and rice.  So I volunteered to make the potato casserole, but I told him he had to teach me how to cut the celery root.  He thought about this for a moment and told me he would make it on Sunday (thank goodness, because my least favorite job in the world is peeling potatoes).  So, as I starting out saying in the first paragraph..what to make for dinner. 

I looked through vegetarian times and there were some really good recipes, but seriously, the people who write that magazine must have live in chefs (I do, but not really) and grocery stores that specialize in selling things that no one has every heard of.  The recipes have about 10 steps and a lot of ingredients.  So, I went to my favorite in a pinch web site, morningstarfarms.com. Their recipes are simple and healthy.  So tonight for dinner we are having low fat vegetarian shepherds pie.  The mashed potato topping is made out of mashed cauliflower (which by the way is on sale at Kroger in the frozen vegetable section 10 for $10)  You steam the cauliflower and then mash it with a little skim milk, salt and pepper.   The filling is made out of morning star farms recipe crumbles (vegetarian chop meat) chopped carrots, pies, sauteed onions, a little garlic and ketchup.   I got  dole light ceaser salad and a loaf of crusty bread to go with it.  When the boys walk in the door in a little while and they ask whats for dinner, Ill just say casserole. They will roll their eyes, but unless it's spaghetti, hot dogs, or macaroni and cheese they roll their eyes anyway.  Well its all put together, I will bake it when I get back from the gym.
This is what it looks like before baking.