Wow! What an extraordinary adventure! I'll have to get a chicken pot pie and try something like that.
Carol Ashland [email protected] Sent from my BrailleNote Touch+On Jun 17, 2020 4:38 AM, Pamela Fairchild via Cookinginthedark <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yesterday I cooked a frozen Marie Callender pot pie. This one was chicken, > bacon, cheese, gravy, and probably a lot of other things I shouldn't want to > eat. But it was one of those days here and that just sounded good. > > I cooked the pie in the microwave, following its instructions except I > didn't puncture a hole in the crust. The crust puffed up mountainlike, but > did not burst and leave my new Microwave oven a mess to clean up. I'm > grateful for small favors. > > It was very hot, so I was glad I had placed it on a glass plate then a paper > plate that fit inside the glass plate perfectly. Absolutely no cleanup that > way. > > I broke the neat looking crust down into the pie, and then the child in me > took over. I ate all the top crust, all the filling and left the pie shell > perfectly intact. Now I was full. My craving for chicken and gravy > satisfied. I slipped the paper plate and pie tin with its shell into a > plastic bag and put it in the refrigerator to worry about another day. > > Day 2, this morning. I took out the pie shell. Then I decided to make a > breakfast pie. Most people call this quiche, but this really wasn't that. > > I prepared two eggs for scrambling, added some garlic and herb seasoning and > a bit of salt and stirred it around. I added 1/8 cup of water so the egg > would mix together well, and set it aside. > > I got out the grater, found the smallest potato I could, washed and grated > it. Then I took a third of an average size onion and diced it into small > dice. I mixed those together and put them in a bowl. I poured the eggs into > the bowl and mixed them well. Then I poured this into the empty pie shell, > grated some cheese, and set that aside into another bowl. I added a hand > full of frozen peas to the egg mixture, then microwaved it 4 minutes. Of > course I set it on my glass plate with the paper plate on top of the glass. > No need to create a mess after all. I put the grated cheese on top, with > care because it was very hot. Then I crumbled a strip of bacon from > yesterday morning's breakfast and sprinkled it over the cheese. > > I returned it to the microwave and cooked it for one more minute to melt the > cheese and warm the bacon bits. > > Now the whole thing is history and the verdict is that it tasted very good. > The crust did not overcook as I feared it might. > > In the future, if I am feeling childish enough to eat the insides of the pie > and leave the crust, I can go for it without guilt, knowing I can create > something yummy with the leftover crust on another day. > > I hope all of you have a good day too. > > Pamela Fairchild > > <[email protected]> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Cookinginthedark mailing list > [email protected] > http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
