As we rejoin our fearless heroine we find her standing in her kitchen on a cold Sunday morning in November. (wait a minute here, she's always standing in her kitchen,,what the heck is going on?!?!)
I'm sorry, I digress. Anyway we find our fearless heroine standing in her kitchen, drinking a pot of coffee and wondering what she is going to do with a lot of leftover cooked chicken.
Realizing that she thinks better on a full stomach, she heats up a slice of homemade spinach and bacon quiche for her breakfast and starts to peruse an Emeril cookbook.
As our heroine ponders her options, her faithful watchdog dozes in the sun nearby.
Our heroine decides what she will do with the leftover chicken, two different types of chicken pies with homemade crusts. She gets out all the crust ingredients and gets them ready.
Our heroine gets all the filling ingredients together for her first recipe, a traditional New England style chicken pot pie. She then whips up the crust, following Emeril's directions and sets it in the fridge for 30 minutes.
That task done she turns her efforts to her second pie, a Moravian chicken pie. She makes the crust with her trusty, tried and true recipe. She mixes the filling and pours it into the pie shell.
Here is the Moravian chicken pie ready to be wrapped up and frozen. What a work of art.
Our heroine then makes the filling for Emeril's traditional New England style chicken pot pie. It has chicken (of course) onions, carrots, potatoes, peas, celery, chicken broth and half-and-half.
Our heroine is very upset when the crust made with the Emeril recipe keeps falling apart. The finished product is not what she had hoped. She vows she will not serve this pie to company.
It is now 2 hours after our heroine started her day in the kitchen. She has finished the two pies, wrapped them, placed them in the freezer and finished two loads of laundry. Now to tackle the outside while its warm.
She turns this,,,,,,,
Into this. Knowing her outside work is done she heads back inside to make yet another pie.
This one is an apple pie for her wonderful and beloved coworkers.
After making a wonderful dinner she relaxes with a glass of Pinot Noir,,,,
in front of the fire and thinks about how soon she can retire for the night.
Tune in next time for another episode of Life in The Mountains.
