Dear Readers,
Or maybe that should read “Dear Eaters”. Considering the theme for today’s post and all. Gotta ask, are there any eaters in and amongst you readers? If you nodded your head ‘yes’ to keep from answering with your mouthful, welcome. You’ve come to the right place for The Blended Blog’s very first “Tasty Tuesday Progressive Dinner”. Sit down a bit, take the load off and tuck a napkin under your chin. Let the mouth-watering begin.
Today four of the TBB contributors are cooking up a little comfort food. Nothing real fancy, but just wholesome and good. So if that sounds like a dinner you’d feel good about serving your gang, join us. Welcome if you started this culinary journey with Christy, who blogs at r Squared, for that first course, her palette-pleasing salad recipe. If you are starting here with me, for the main course, you might want to hop over to Christy’s blog first. That is unless you like to eat your salad after your meal. To each his own.
But whatever you do, in whichever order, please leave room for dessert. Because any dessert Andrea from Living On Cloud Nine has prepared promises to be heavenly. And then we’ll finish up with drinks from our favorite resident TBB mixologist, Katie, the blogger behind The Mishaps and Mayhem of a Solitary Life.
Let’s get to it.
My Chicken Pot Pie
You might recall from my “5 Favorite Kitchen Tools“ post that I am no Julia Child (thank you, Cathy!). I am more of a Chef Boyardee. Keeping that in mind, please understand that I never measure anything. As my sweet mama would say, I cook by guess and by gosh. The measurements for this chicken pot pie recipe are guesstimates. But tonight’s pot pie turned out pretty good, so I this time I guessed right! Keeps things interesting. If not entirely edible.
Ingredients for six servings
- chicken tenders – I used 12 ounces today, which was five tenders – or turkey!!!!
- chicken broth, lower sodium, 32 ounces
- 1 15 ounce can mixed vegetables or approximately that much of any mix of frozen vegetables
- 1 medium potato, diced (see the kitchen tools post for my favorite dicer, or check it out by clicking on the image on the side bar)
- 1 tablespoon of onion flakes or diced onions
- 1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder
- 2 pie crusts, I like the Pillsbury crusts in the dairy section
- 7″ x 11″ baking dish
- nonstick spray
Dump the first six ingredients into your crock pot. This is a great way to use up turkey and little bits of leftover corn or other veggies. I often put my leftover veggies into a (faux) Tupperware container and keep it frozen for this recipe and vegetable soup.
How ’bout my handy, dandy Vidalia Chopper? Perfectly chopped potatoes, every time.
Set the timer on your crock pot for 3-4 hours on high or 5-6 hours on low. Or walk on the wild side, like I did today, and set it for 7 hours on low. I love how my crock pot just keeps food warm when I miscalculate my cooking time or my dinner time.
I called in sick today. Sinus and ear infections. It was nice to mix this all together, literally pour it into the crock pot and crawl back under the covers. I confess, I did run out for a few hours this afternoon to do some Christmas shopping. When I returned home, my kitchen smelled so good.
Time to prepare – ha – unroll the crust. I used a 7″ x 11″ baking dish for today’s pot pie. Some days, I get crazy and cram it all into a little 8″ x 8″ and it bubbles over onto the oven. Good times. When I was cooking for a family, I used my 9″ x 12″-er and a third crust split between top and bottom.
Spray your preferred dish with nonstick spray. Somewhere about now, preheat your oven to 400 degrees.
Roll out your crust and pat it, and mark it with a “B”. (And you put it in the oven for baby and me! Apparently cooking brings the Mother Goose out in me)
Ladle the meat and vegetables onto the bottom crust with a slotted spoon. Once you get all of your meat-n-taters into the baking dish, then begin spooning the broth over them.
You don’t want your chicken and vegetables floating over the top of the dish, so add the broth gradually. Good thing, I can offer crystal-clear, professional quality images to offset my less than exact directions.
Roll out, etc., your top crust and lay it over the chicken pot pie, sealing the edges…preferably more attractively than I did.
And pop it into a preheated 400 degree oven. Oooo, forgot to tell you to preheat the oven. I never preheat.
Waste of time. But let me add that to the directions so I look official. Ok, I put it in up there.
I set the timer for about 30 minutes and checked the pot pie to be sure it was nicely browned at that point. Depending on the size of your baking dish, you might need to go longer. Or shorter. But you don’t need ME to tell YOU that.
Hmm. Hope this looks appetizing to you. I promise it is good! And even more flavorful the second day. My PC started eating from his plate before he got to the table. And went back for seconds. Of course, he wasn’t going to get any of Andrea’s amazing dessert. But YOU are…so let me wind this up.
Thank you for joining me for dinner. If you have a chicken pot pie recipe, would you like to share? Please leave me a comment below and we can do a part two! Also, one more thing real quick. My sweet friend and reader Danielle, took me up on my request for ya’ll to share some of your fav kitchen tools. She sent me this pic on Facebook.
I give you Danielle’s spatula, tongs, Global chef’s knife, Pampered Chef chopper, IKEA cheese grater. How bout that genius grater. My cheese goes all over the house. So clever to catch it in a little container. And there’s another chopper, girls. If you don’t have one, you have to put that on your Christmas/Hanukkah list. Thank you, dear friend for sharing!! XOXO
Ok, let’s get to that dessert, shall we? And drinks after? Click your heels and your mouse right here.
Hugs and kisses,
LOVE!!! The ultimate comfort food…looks delicious and hello grater of my dreams, I need that! Thanks for organizing this oh so fun hop…super tasty indeed!!
Confession…I have never had chicken pot pie!
What?! How is that possible?!
Sounds like Deena is going to treat us to the Canadian version for next week’s Tasty Tuesday!
Ditto! I don’t care for casserole type dishes! But my kids love it! I’ve only ever made the frozen ones.
I like it as a way to clean up left-over veggies. I usually keep little bits of corn, bean, peas all combined frozen in a Ziploc or container and just dump them in, too. Love that you can add whatever veggies you have or like.
I’m sorry you aren’t feeling well! I’m actually on antibiotics for a sinus infection right now. I’m so ready to feel healthy again! I’ve never actually made chicken pot pie but the most popular soup at my parents’ restaurant is chicken pot pie. It’s delicious!
Chicken Pot Pie is my boys favorite meal. This one looks delicious!
I am def. going to try this! I love easy peasy crock pot recipes and the chicken pot pie recipe I always make is MUCH more time consuming! Thanks for sharing. Hope you are feeling better!
Carrie
curlycraftymom.com
If you can believe it – I have never eaten or made chicken pot pie. I really should – since I love pie (the crust especially) and chicken noodle soup, which is pretty much the same thing all rolled into one. I hope you are feeling better.
Lisa
Daily Style Finds
We have the same cheese grater! A loved gadget in my home as well.
Ha, I never preheat my oven either! I do put it in my instructions to sound official though! This looks so yummy. My husband loves pot pies but they always seem like a lot of work. Using the crock pot for all those first steps is genius! I am pinning this and will be making it real soon.
Hello, sweet Joanne! Thank you for coming by and thank you so much for leaving a comment. I think I have very shy readers because I rarely
get comments but I think they are out there reading my posts. 🙂 This pot pie is so simple. I just made it up one night in desperation to
try to get my kids to eat more veggies and it worked. Sometimes I serve it with rice, or with caramelized sweet potatoes with marshmallows (more
comfort!!). Glad I am not the only one who doesn’t preheat…although, I did it again tonight! Ha! And I thought of you!
This looks fantastic! I’ve never seen it done that way 🙂
Super duper easy. Great way to sneak in veggies. And yum with rice. Thanks!!
Dear fellow eater, so sorry to hear you weren’t feeling so spiffy-hope you’re doing better now! Your progressive dinner post brought back great memories from about ten years ago cuz we had a bunch of friends we did these with-went to about 5 or 6 different homes for all the courses and it sure was fun (and very filling!) Haven’t done one for quite some time but I’m thinking it would be def fun to plan another one sometime soon before our MI weather turns to ice & snow-ugh! I bought a new crock pot earlier this year but haven’t taken it out of the box yet-your comfort food recipe could be its maiden voyage I’m thinking! As a coordinating book to go with all this cooking & eating I recommend “97 Orchard” by Jane Ziegelman. It’s a great true story of 5 different ethnic groups in NYC over 100 years ago and explains about so many different foods everyone eats all the time today & where it all stemmed from. It’s actually been turned into a museum now that you can tour-would love to see it sometime! Thanks again for another great post!! C.C.
Hey Cath! Feeling much better today, thank you. What great fun your progressive dinners must have been. Get that crock pot out of the box, girl! What are you waiting for? Try this recipe and let me know what you think. We can feature your version in a follow-up. The “97 Orchard” book sounds great. Another suggestion for my GoodReads ‘to-read’ shelf. Thank you. So glad you take time to visit and leave comments. XO
I hope you are feeling better!
Chicken pot pie is comfort food indeed. I remember making it quite often when my older son was little (since I can’t tolerate gluten anymore, I haven’t had it in years, but it brings back sooo many memories).
Regarding your question about the Sentence a Day, I was pretty good for most of the month but started to forgot about it last week. I’ll look today to see if I can “make it up.” 🙂
I am feeling much better! Thank you, sweets.
I have a recipe that uses hash browns, those grated ones, instead of crust.
If you are interested, holler. I haven’t tried it but maybe we both could make it,
post about it and give it a review?!!
If you get caught up on your sentences, send me a note – do you have my email? mommmyhon333@hotmail.com
And maybe we can put something together.
Thanks for being a friend!
This is such a fun series and post!! Love Chicken Pot Pie!! But could you just go on ahead and send me some of yours?!? HA!!