Saturday, June 13, 2015

Saturday Pie and Produce

This is a Saturday!

Other than a minor struggle with my child while trying to get him to fall asleep for his nap (for over an hour (because his schedule was WAY thrown off yesterday from a graduation open house)) today has been what every Saturday should be. We've chilled at home. Gone for a nice long morning walk. Made the Saturday run to the grocery store. I stuck to my list and saved a ton of money on my cart full. I feel like I've been baking ALL day and that I've used every dish in my kitchen to do so but I haven't done either really. I now have my very first, from scratch, homemade, hot chicken pot pie to show for all the hard work. Ahhh! I love food and considering I used organic veggies, organic chicken and organic flour to make the handsome fellow I am pretty much on cloud nine right now.


First I made the chicken stock from a large chicken breast that's been in my freezer for seemingly forever, carrots, a large onion, a few fresh basil leaves (from that plant I bought awhile back), some old garlic cloves, and salt and pepper. Then I baked a few chicken breasts for the pie filling. I had to make the filling next; carrots and butter, flour, chicken stock, skim milk, salt and pepper, corn, peas, broccoli, and chicken. The filling was supposed to cool before being put into the pie crust so I made the pie crust while the filling cooled. I pretty much used THIS recipe but didn't have any onion or celery for the filling and used corn and broccoli instead.

I mentioned our backyard produce in my last post so I really felt the need to run out back and snap some photos of my happy plants (they make me very happy at least and I like to thing they're happy too). Yes, I need to mow the lawn.

Tomatoes, Carrots, and Strawberries all in a row

Those are tiny baby tomatoes in the middle there

I think I'm way more proud of these carrots then I should be

And our awesome strawberry pots; Deliciousness!

We're almost done munching on our pot pie dinner. I think we'll be heading into the steamy outdoors to play in the sprinkler in a few minutes. I hope everyone's been enjoying this splendid June Saturday!




7 comments:

  1. That pot pie IS beautiful - you did a fantastic job on it!!! I wish I had the love/talent of cooking that you have acquired....luckily my kids are basically out of the house so it is just the 2 of us and I don't have to cook "real" meals anymore :)

    Love, love, love the veggies - I had some great peas & green beans going by my darling son thought I said water them once a WEEK instead of once a DAY when we were on vacation for 3 weeks so.....we will enjoy the 3 peas and 5 green beans I harvested before we left :(

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    1. OH NO!!! A massacre! I'd be so sad :( Are you okay? Are you going to start over by chance? My husband killed my orchid one year when I went to Guatemala. I was so sad when I came back. I'd gotten that thing to re-flower at least twice and the florist at the store said most people can't get them to re-flower at all. Geesh, these guys, LOL

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  2. That looks like deliciousness in pots! Yours are definitely further on than mine. We had a wet day yesterday (and another is forecast for today) so I'm consoling myself with the thought that every drop of rain is an extra bit of deliciousness in my garden.

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    1. Yesterday was wet here too and it's been raining through the night. I'm with you. Every time it rains I'm thinking, "this is great for the plants." I find that plants really prefer rain water to anything else so it's golden drops from heaven.

      We JUST noticed a watermelon leaf pop out of the ground yesterday. It's my first shot at watermelon and I hear they are difficult to grow so, needless to say, I am so excited!

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  3. Ummmmm.....I'm sorry, what is rain?????

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    1. : (

      I know, sorry. I keep seeing those photos online of celebrities who live in California who have lavish green acres of yards and then everything around them is dried out fields. So sad about your drought.

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  4. And it might not be so bad if the governor didn't keep taking OUR water and sending it down to Southern California.......but we aren't bitter!!!! Our city is actually giving homeowners up to $1000 if you bring them patches of sod so you don't have to water.

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