moving

well, i'm moving to a new city, same state soon...it'll be just TJ, max (dog) and i...


i made pot pie the other night, trying to use up some veggies so i don't have to move as much refrigerated stuff

1 pie crust (1/2 of Perfect Pie Crust recipe)
1/2 stick butter
1/2 cup finely diced onion
1/2 cup finely diced carrot
1/2 cup finely diced celery
2 cups leftover turkey, light and dark, diced or shredded (or both!)
1/4 cup flour
2 cups low-sodium chicken or turkey broth
splash of white wine (optional)
1 cup heavy cream
Frozen peas (optional)
Fresh thyme, chopped
salt and pepper to taste

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Melt butter in a skillet or dutch oven. Add onion, carrots, and celery, and cook until translucent (a couple of minutes.)
Add turkey and stir. Sprinkle flour over mixture and stir. Cook over medium heat for a couple of minutes, stirring constantly.
Pour in chicken or turkey broth, stirring constantly. Splash in wine (you can leave this out if you’d like.) Pour in cream. (May add frozen peas at this point if you’d like.)
Bring to a slow boil and allow mixture to cook and thicken for a few minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste (do not underseason), and fresh or dried thyme to taste. Do one final taste at the end and add what it needs.
Pour mixture into a casserole dish or deep pie pan.
Roll out crust so that it’s about 1 inch larger than the pan you’re using.
Place the crust on top of the pot pie mixture, and press crust into the sides of the dish. Cut vents in the top of the crust.
Bake for 30 minutes or until very golden and bubbly.
Allow to cool for a little bit before serving.

Serve with a large spoon.

REALLY GOOD. i used premade crusts...and it worked out well :)

whole chicken legs

are harmed in the making of today's recipe. I modified a recipe from The Pioneer Woman, I made her spicy roasted chicken legs. The original recipe can be found here. However, i modified it and i'll give you my modified recipe instead :)

12 whole Chicken Legs
1.5 sticks Butter
Your Favorite Seasonings (i did chopped garlic, chili powder, pepper, salt, and basil)
1/8 cups Lemon Juice (or To Taste)

Melt butter in a saucepan. Pour lemon juice (fresh or bottled). Now add your seasonings. Stir it together until combined. Taste test to make sure its good, add what its missing.

Rinse your chicken legs. With metal tongs, transfer them one by one into the butter mixture and place on a baking sheet. Once all of the chicken legs are coated and on the baking rack, take a pastry brush and give them one last coating of the butter mixture. Sprinkle them with some more of your seasonings.

Place them into a 400-degree oven for 30 minutes, or until the thermometer reads the right temp for chicken.

Yum!!!! I had to put mine in for about 50 minutes, cuz my oven isn't quite whole...its missing one of the panels so heat escapes pretty easily.

I put LOTS of chili powder on 4 of them, for TJ. TJ and C's lil sister S is over while their dad and C put insulation upstairs so that the upstairs can be finished and TJ can move up there :D Life around here'll be happier when TJ is upstairs - he'll be happy and then I can hang out with him more :) (if the girl aint happy, aint nobody happy...ya know?) Now all that needs to be done is painting (white) and carpeting and then MOVE IN DAY :D