Saturday, May 22, 2010

1st Time Chicken Pot Pie



I have been wanting to make a homemade chicken pot pie for quite sometime, but I always felt it would be too overwhelming! This recipe that I snagged was super easy and fun too.

Ingredients:

3 skinless chicken breasts
14.5 oz chicken broth
3 potatoes
1 yellow onion
3 stalks celery
2 tbsp vegetable oil
2 tbsp all purpose flour
2 cups frozen mixed vegetables
salt and pepper to taste
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1 package Pillsbury unroll-and-fill pie crusts

Directions:

Cook chicken in the oven, you can cook the chicken frozen too (be sure to set to correct temperature)

Wash and cut potatoes into bite size pieces. Cook til almost fork tender. Drain and set aside.

Wash celery and cut to bite size pieces, do the same for the onion

In a large heavy skillet, over med to high heat, saute celery and onion with olive oil, for 5-8 minutes. Add the frozen vegetables and cook for another 5 minutes. Add the flour and cook for 30 seconds.

Add chicken broth and bring to a boil. Once it has become thick add the potatoes.

Once chicken is cooked cut into bite size pieces and add to vegetable mixture. Add salt and pepper to taste and garlic powder at this time, too.

In a 9 inch deep pie plate place the first layer of pie crust. Then add the chicken/vegetable mixture. Then add the top layer of the pie crust and be sure to enclose the edges.

Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes or until pie shell is golden brown.

Enjoy!

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

List...

So I was the happy recipient of a new crock pot...I need to get to cooking in it so I can rant and rave about it!

I have ventured off and made my 1st ever chicken pot pie...I will be posting this too :)

Oh and by the way I am not even close to having this baby yet but I'm just such a napper and lover of comfort that when the bundle comes in November I'll just be snuggling with that cutie all day :)

Sunday, May 9, 2010

My new love has some side-kicks

I have always adored milk but my Dr. has made it apparent that I need to drink more Vitamin D fortified milk...like 3 glasses a day! So now my milk has some new friends :)

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Unique Opportunity

A few weeks ago I had the privilege of getting an email from CSN Stores, asking me if I would like to try one of their products. I thought well sure why not!

I was looking at their bar stool store website and came across some great finds!

We have 2 bar stools from Ikea that we have in our little bar area in between our kitchen and dining room. However when we purchased it we did not have much of a selection at Ikea. When you go onto Home Bars they have a huge, crazy selection of really neat and well priced bar stools. I really like this one, oh and this one too.

Happy Bar Stool shopping!

Monday, May 3, 2010

Announcement

Ok so I have been partially slacking on my blog because I have been napping and I went on vacation last week.

I have been napping more than usual, as my FB friends would know I love to nap :) because Tim and I are expecting this November :)

We are excited and looking forward to what God has in store for us!

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

I know I know

I've been slacking beyond words...but I promise there is good reason!

Once I'm back from vacation I hope to get more recipes and pics on here!

p.s. the food processor works wonderfully, haven't used the mixer yet though.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Kitchen Gadgets

I am excited to say that I have finally made my purchase for my KitchenAid Mixer and my Cuisinart Food Processor :)