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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/19/2014 10:49PM by techman01.
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There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots
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When you try to please everybody, you end up pleasing nobody
There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of inquisitive idiots
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When you try to please everybody, you end up pleasing nobody
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/19/2014 10:49PM by techman01.
I've been playing around making homemade pot pies and tweaking flavors for a while. I just made the best one yet, and I have to write the ingredients somewhere so I don't forget since I don't use recipes. Bonus: if someone else makes it, you can try it and give me some feedback.
I hate making pie crusts, so I cheat and buy them. I use a cake pan for a "deeper dish pie".
Filling: Some leftover Thanksgiving turkey (I don't measure. I think it it was a bout a half of a quart-sized Ziplock freezer bag)
A handful of cooked bacon, broken into small pieces (um, IDK 7 or 8 slices?)
An entire bag of frozen mixed vegetables 12 - 16 oz. or something (diced carrots, green beans, corn, lima beans...)
1 can Campbells Cream of Chicken & Mushroom soup
1 can Cambells Cream of Chicken with Herbs soup
Minced onion (1/4 cup-ish)?
Minced garlic (maybe 2 Tblsp)
Fresh ground smoked salt to taste
Fresh ground pepper to taste
celery seed to taste
Dried parsley to taste
Just mix and taste, add more, mix and taste...
Baking time around 45 minutes or so at 350 (turned up to 400 last 5 minutes to brown crust)
Don't forget the egg wash and steam holes on top crust.
There are two types of people in this world: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
I hate making pie crusts, so I cheat and buy them. I use a cake pan for a "deeper dish pie".
Filling: Some leftover Thanksgiving turkey (I don't measure. I think it it was a bout a half of a quart-sized Ziplock freezer bag)
A handful of cooked bacon, broken into small pieces (um, IDK 7 or 8 slices?)
An entire bag of frozen mixed vegetables 12 - 16 oz. or something (diced carrots, green beans, corn, lima beans...)
1 can Campbells Cream of Chicken & Mushroom soup
1 can Cambells Cream of Chicken with Herbs soup
Minced onion (1/4 cup-ish)?
Minced garlic (maybe 2 Tblsp)
Fresh ground smoked salt to taste
Fresh ground pepper to taste
celery seed to taste
Dried parsley to taste
Just mix and taste, add more, mix and taste...
Baking time around 45 minutes or so at 350 (turned up to 400 last 5 minutes to brown crust)
Don't forget the egg wash and steam holes on top crust.
Sounds good LJ but I'm curious...did you add any liquid to dilute the soups?
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Have PV-500 & willing to travel.
"Answers are easy. It's asking the right questions which is hard." (The Fourth Doctor, The Face of Evil, 1977)
"Somedays you're the pigeon, somedays you're the statue.” J. Andrew Taylor
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." Galileo Galilei
No liquid. It thins out as it bakes, but if you like it runny you could add a little broth or cream. Oh - and I used dried minced onion and dried minced garlic - rehydrated in a little warm water since that's what I had on hand. In the past I sauteed onions, garlic and celery first. IDK, maybe that's one of the reasons it turned out better this time?
There are two types of people in this world: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
Lucious leftovers from yesterday's Mexican restaurant shop, plus some guacamole, chips and red wine.
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LJ, that sounds like a lot of ingredients. That's more than one regular eight inch cake pan of pie, right? How many?
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Just one, Mary. It might be a 9" pan though. Here's a pic of one of my first ones:
The bottom crust doesn't drape over the edges; it just barely comes to the top of the sides. Fill it (it should all fit) and then top with the other crust. I tuck the edges of the top crust behind the bottom crust and pinch. I don't even bother attempting to crimp the edges or make them look pretty. There's usually an excess and I don't have the patience to mess with it. I just slap the egg on top and stab it a few times. I'm sure others could make it look quite pretty.
There are two types of people in this world: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
The bottom crust doesn't drape over the edges; it just barely comes to the top of the sides. Fill it (it should all fit) and then top with the other crust. I tuck the edges of the top crust behind the bottom crust and pinch. I don't even bother attempting to crimp the edges or make them look pretty. There's usually an excess and I don't have the patience to mess with it. I just slap the egg on top and stab it a few times. I'm sure others could make it look quite pretty.
LJ, looks great to me. Thanks.
Mary Davis Nowell. Based close to Fort Worth. Shopping Interstate 20 east and west, Interstate 35 north and south.
Shop swag from yesterday's Legal Seafoods lunch at the bar: bang bang califlower and seaman's platter.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/21/2014 02:17PM by walesmaven.
5 Guys...and getting paid nicely to do it.
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Have PV-500 & willing to travel.
"Answers are easy. It's asking the right questions which is hard." (The Fourth Doctor, The Face of Evil, 1977)
"Somedays you're the pigeon, somedays you're the statue.” J. Andrew Taylor
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." Galileo Galilei
Have PV-500 & willing to travel.
"Answers are easy. It's asking the right questions which is hard." (The Fourth Doctor, The Face of Evil, 1977)
"Somedays you're the pigeon, somedays you're the statue.” J. Andrew Taylor
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." Galileo Galilei
cooldude581 Wrote:
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> hamburger helper... gotta get my daily sodium
> fix... i did buy some kiwis though
LOL - yes I happen to have some kiwis as well
What a kionkidink!
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> hamburger helper... gotta get my daily sodium
> fix... i did buy some kiwis though
LOL - yes I happen to have some kiwis as well
What a kionkidink!
Made a pot of homemade turkey vegetable soup tonight, a fresh loaf of bread just out of the oven and salads, plus a mincemeat pie.
Her Serene Majesty, Cettie - Goat Queen of Zoltar, Sublime Empress of Her Caprine Domain
Always make a special dinner for Christmas Eve. Tonight will be shrimp sauteed in garlic butter, butternut squash also swamped with more butter and brown sugar, oven crispy red potatoes, brussels sprouts, stuffed mushrooms and more of that mincemeat pie.
Her Serene Majesty, Cettie - Goat Queen of Zoltar, Sublime Empress of Her Caprine Domain
Shrimp cocktail tonight.
Tomorrow I'm having a Cornish hen with stuffing, cranberry sauce and whatever else I can scrounge up.
Tomorrow I'm having a Cornish hen with stuffing, cranberry sauce and whatever else I can scrounge up.
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Have PV-500 & willing to travel.
"Answers are easy. It's asking the right questions which is hard." (The Fourth Doctor, The Face of Evil, 1977)
"Somedays you're the pigeon, somedays you're the statue.” J. Andrew Taylor
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." Galileo Galilei
Have PV-500 & willing to travel.
"Answers are easy. It's asking the right questions which is hard." (The Fourth Doctor, The Face of Evil, 1977)
"Somedays you're the pigeon, somedays you're the statue.” J. Andrew Taylor
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." Galileo Galilei
Nothing. Today is a day of noshing on this and that - whatever and whenever we want.
There are two types of people in this world: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
Burger shop for Mrs. Trash & I for lunch, then burger shop for Trash Jr. for dinner. Tomorrow's dinner shop is at a bar & grill place w/ pretty decent food. 'Tis the season to eat plenty...
We brought home the shells of three lobsters from a special Christmas Eve dinner. My sister is turning those into the broth for her famous lobster bisque! Add a big salad and wine and it will be dinner.
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Meatless Lasagna, homemade but I did not prepare it. My son came home with a lot of food from her girlfriend's family
and I just have so much in the fridge. They even provided grilled mushrooms, grilled eggplant, grilled carrots and potatoes.
But I came home and brought miso soup, so dinner is complete. Dessert is blueberry cheesecake, also homemade.
I've placed all the seafood, including lobsters, crabs and shrimps in the freezer. And oh, various types of cheese. There is much too much food.
and I just have so much in the fridge. They even provided grilled mushrooms, grilled eggplant, grilled carrots and potatoes.
But I came home and brought miso soup, so dinner is complete. Dessert is blueberry cheesecake, also homemade.
I've placed all the seafood, including lobsters, crabs and shrimps in the freezer. And oh, various types of cheese. There is much too much food.
Driving 260 miles to home with shops along the way and not much memory of what is in the freezer, so who knows?
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Bean soup cooked all day while it's low 30's and windy outside.
There are two types of people in this world: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
I think that I'll be drinking my dinner once again tonight.
We went to a political banquet tonight, they had roasted chicken as well as prime rib, oven roasted potatoes, green beans, ceasar salad and five kinds of pie and four kinds of cheesecakes. It was fabulous and for once I didn't have to cook anything. Nice to take a day off sometimes.
Her Serene Majesty, Cettie - Goat Queen of Zoltar, Sublime Empress of Her Caprine Domain
After a week of soups, stews and pasta, I think that I will spend some of my "gas price bonus" on an actual piece of meat when I go shopping today!
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Tonight was some braised country-style pork ribs, rice pilaf, steamed vegetable medley of cauliflower, carrots, onions and snap peas and some baked beans just for the heck of it.
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I ate some leftover of a beef stew with peanut butter sauce I made for a party last night. There was no leftover of the batch I took to the party but I saved some at home to introduce it to my son. He liked it and ate a full bowl.
I cooked oxtails, skimmed off the fat from the slow cooker and added eggplant pieces, bokchoy, green beans and peanut butter. My son ate it with rice but I ate it with bread. Had fruit salad for dessert.
I cooked oxtails, skimmed off the fat from the slow cooker and added eggplant pieces, bokchoy, green beans and peanut butter. My son ate it with rice but I ate it with bread. Had fruit salad for dessert.
Pot roast with gravy, mashed potato, streamed fresh broccoli.
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Stuffed peppers and dirty rice tonight with some green beans that the neighbor grew and canned.
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Polenta with chorizo and queso fresco.
Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It's not pie.
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Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and it really annoys the pig.
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Is that an Italicanish recipe? :p
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