January, 2010

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Pot Pie

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
emmmmm....

yum!

So, it all started when Riley said “hey- let’s make a pot pie.” I looked up a recipe, then forgot it and started to plan. All I noted from the recipe was to cook chicken totally naked (no spices) and cook other stuff in chicken stock and milk. The first thing to do was find some stock worthy of this pie. Nate had a fresh batch of turkey stock left over from thanksgiving that he would part with for some of the outcome. On the way home, I stopped by a grab bag and found a mound of mushrooms along with 4 giant eggplants- I was ready to cook. The recipe that I ended up making looked like this:
left: just the chicken right: total filling

Left: just pan 2 Right: total mixture

Pan 1:

onions

garlic

mushrooms

eggplant

spices (pepper…. allspice…)

RFTS

milk

Cook these in this order (waiting after the garlic, spices, RFTS for timing).

Pan 2:

chicken

spinach

spices (nutmeg…)

Cook for 15 minutes with only the water of the spinach.

Place contents of pan 2 in pie crust, cover with contents of pan 1, and close crust.

Bake at 425 for 30 minutes.

Happy Birthday Month

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

In celebration of a great man turning 60 years young, I would like to acknowledge the idea of what he calls his “Birthday Month”.
Papa
As part of Tony’s HBM, he has already been to Females On Fire, his daughter’s 5 course, 5 wines, and 5 chefs, event to support Women in the culinary arts and in this Foodie-spirit of Birthday-month I am posting 3 Tony Lucero original recipes that have been a serious thread in my life and that I think my dad would be happy to share with you all.  These recipes have helped me survive grueling Colorado winters and Sunny Santa Barbara ones as well. So everyone lift a shot of Tequila and help me wish my dad a Happy Birthday Month. Cheers!

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