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Making Chicken Pie - Sunday, May 6, 2007
Yesterday Priscilla and I found ourselves cooking at her house again, making our first attempt at chicken pot pie. My dad had shown us before, and I thought I had a pretty good idea of how to do it. So we went to the supermarket to buy the ingredients that we didn't already have: pie crust, mixed vegetables, chicken breast, and condensed milk. Only we forgot to get the condensed milk when we got there. And all the pre-made pie crusts seemed to be for making dessert pies (my dad later told me that they're all the same) so we went with a box of crust mix. Unfortunately when we got back to her house, we realized that we didn't have a rolling pin to flatten out the dough.
So there we were, two newbs trying to press a layer of dough into the pan with our hands, and making the filling with chicken and veggies in cream of mushroom soup diluted with water. I called my dad for help and after giving me advice, he ended with an encouraging note - "Well it doesn't sound like it's going to turn out very good..."
But by some freak luck we got all the quantities right, and we ended up not having merely watery cream of mushroom soup on a soggy pie crust. The finished product was actually not bad. I wouldn't say it was superb, but it certainly was worthy of being called a pie. A great fiasco was averted that day.
So there we were, two newbs trying to press a layer of dough into the pan with our hands, and making the filling with chicken and veggies in cream of mushroom soup diluted with water. I called my dad for help and after giving me advice, he ended with an encouraging note - "Well it doesn't sound like it's going to turn out very good..."
But by some freak luck we got all the quantities right, and we ended up not having merely watery cream of mushroom soup on a soggy pie crust. The finished product was actually not bad. I wouldn't say it was superb, but it certainly was worthy of being called a pie. A great fiasco was averted that day.