chicken pot pie!!

Sad though it may be, I'm dedicating this post to food.  Chicken pot pie, to be exact. The recipe can be found here (and I'll tell you what I do differently).

• We don't like onions much, so I usually don't put onion in the pie.  So instead of sauteing the onions, I just melt the butter and get it nice and warm, and then start adding the flour, etc
• I usually don't get fresh carrots, I just get a frozen veggie mix with them in there.
• I never use the full 2 sticks of butter.  Tonight, for example, I used 1 full stick and about 1/4 stick that was sitting in the fridge (just remember that the butter is getting spread out over 2 pies and you might not feel so bad!)
• Jeremy's not a fan of thyme so this time around I left out the thyme completely and added about 1/4 - 1/3 tsp of sage.  (Jeremy says I can add some more sage next time :))

Here's what it looked like before filling the pie pans:

(In case you can't tell, we like FULL pies!)

The pie crusts, before the invasion of the filling...

...and after!

Busting at the seams!

 After 35 minutes of baking

(the crusts got a little too dark, but not quite as dark as it appears in this picture.  Need to cover the edges SOONER than I did :))


This is the one we decided to eat tonight:

I didn't quite cut through the bottom crust when I was cutting the first piece, which left it a little messy but still VERY yummy!

The best signs to let me know it was a success: