Archive for January, 2010

Not Your Momma’s Chicken Pot Pie

Posted by Candace on Friday, January 29th, 2010

Growing up, I loved chicken pot pie night.  I thought it was soooo yummy.  However, the pot pie I ate was a frozen one and was filled with preservatives and just bad tasting stuff.  I had no idea how truly awful it was until I tried it again years later as a poor college student. Now I make pot pie from scratch, with real ingredients and I don’t have to poke the frozen top with a fork (although that was my favorite part as a kid!).

Since it actually hit the freezing point here in Ft Lauderdale a few weeks ago, I was craving some comfort food, and chicken pot pie was the first thing that popped in my head.  I forgot how easy and quick this is to make.  If you want to make it even easier, top it with store bought puff pastry.

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Hot & Spicy!

Posted by Candace on Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Can you believe it is 2010?  When I was a kid, I thought we’d have flying cars and be wearing silver colored suits by 2010. I suppose we do have iPhones and cool things like that, although I’d like a flying car! We rang in the New Year with some new friends at their lovely home. These people knew how to throw a party!  The food was to die for and they had more alcohol than should have been legal.  But that’s not a bad thing.  One of the hosts, Bodo (from Germany) made an amazing goulash soup that I’ve been thinking about since.  Now that we are smack dab in a week long cold spell, I felt the need for something hot and spicy… and I also decided to make some soup too. HA! I keeeel me.

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