THIS WEEK'S CRAVINGS #16 (Sweet Potatoes & Favorite Potatoes) and Shepherds Pie

THIS WEEK'S CRAVINGS Linky Party #16

The Theme is: "Sweet" Potatoes & Favorite Potato Recipes



Happy Valentine's Day to one and all! I hope you find your day as SWEET as can be and surround yourself with people you LOVE! Today our theme for THIS WEEK'S CRAVINGS is SWEET potatoes or any favorite potato recipe.

If you are looking for a last minute fun dessert to create for your loved ones, these are quick and taste so delicious. I made this for my girls after-party for their Junior Winter-Formal dance this weekend (all of the kids loved them, plus I saved a few for our Valentine's Dinner tomorrow night). We are going to enjoy a homemade dinner at home. I am very excited about shopping tomorrow and coming home to make my family a special meal filled with LOVE and just a few of their favorite things.




Red Velvet Call Balls (click here for recipe)

The potato recipe I am sharing for today is Shepherd's Pie. This is a new recipe to my family and it was more then perfect. I was actually quite surprised, it wasn't really from a recipe at all, except for it was from a ton of different recipes all put together that I was reading when trying to find a Shepherd's Pie using left-overs. I am SUPER DUPER late in posting this (as we made this with our left over Turkey at Christmas time). But this recipe would be GREAT with left-over chicken too and I just happened to have ONE more Turkey in my freezer that needs cooked. I think I will be pulling that out this week and posting a few more Turkey recipes in the middle of February. Why not? Turkey is delish any time of year! I am going to also make this recipe again and try to make it GLUTEN-FREE. 

Shepherd's Pie

1 tbsp butter

2 carrots, diced

1-2 celery stalks, diced

1/2 onion, diced

1/2 to 1 cup left-over gravy

2 cups diced left-over Turkey (or chicken)

1/2 to 1 cup broth (chicken or turkey)

1 tbsp parsley

2 cups left-over mashed potatoes

1/2 cup cheddar cheese

Heat the 1 tbsp of butter in skillet and saute the carrots, celery and onion until soft.  Add in the gravy, broth and parsley; heat through. Sprinkle a little salt and pepper if desired. Pour into 9x13 Pam sprayed baking dish. Heat up the left over mashed potatoes slightly or you will have a hard time spreading them on top the casserole. I use my wonderful scooper's that I love so much (see photo to the right). I LOVE these things and use them for everything. 

I LOVE Linky Parties, what a great way to mix and mingle with lots of bloggers! This post also linked to: Tasty Tuesday Parade of Foods, It's a Blog Party Delicious Dishes, Tempt My Tummy Tuesday, Hearth and Soul Hop, mmmonday, Homemaker Monday , Mouthwatering Monday, Tuesdays at the Table, Tuesday Night Supper Club, Foodie Friday, Flaunt it Friday, Fun with Food Friday, Fat Camp Friday, Fab Friday, Feature Yourself Friday , Hodgepodge Friday and Get Your Craft On

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Here is a complete list of the past weeks and a list of what's coming up on This Week's Cravings!

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Please only link recipes with this theme!
This week's theme is: "SWEET" Potatoes & Favorite Potatoes

The SIMPLE Rules: (Click for complete list of guidelines for This Week's Cravings)

1. Please stick to the THEME and only link up recipes that go with our theme for the week. 

2. Add our button and/or a DIRECT link back to this post, inside of your post (not just on a wall of linky parties, this doesn't allow YOUR readers to come back to the linky party and see all the fun recipes! Which this is the intent of a linky party in the first place).

3. Also we'd love for you to hop around and visit the other link-ups! After all it's a BLOG PARTY and it's not fun for everyone linking up if you don't hop around and say Hello!!!


PLEASE follow the simple rules, so everyone can enjoy the linky party! If you forget to link back or add a button IN YOUR post you will receive a gentle reminder to add it, before we delete your post! THANKS A MILLION!

This Week's Cravings Past & Future Recipe Links

January 10 - Pizza - Pizza - Pizza

January 17 - Pies (Dessert or Dinner)

January 24 - Soup

January 31 - Potluck Item for Super Bowl Sunday

February 7 - Valentine's Cookie & Treats

February 14 - Sweet Potatoes & Other Favorite Potato Recipes

This is a BLOG HOP PARTY so please hop around

and read some GREAT recipes!