Blurry Photography

Sometimes getting that BLURRRRRR in the photo is a good thing!

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Chicken Pot Pie

I Love Pot Pies. And here's a recipe than can be baked in a pie plate like the one below or in a cast iron skillet with a pie crust top.

2 Tblspn Butter                                           

1Onion, chopped

4 carrots, sliced

2 ribs celery, sliced

2 garlic cloves, minced

2 potatoes, diced

1/2 tspn salt

1/2 tspn pepper

2 Tblspn Flour

3 Tblspn milk or cream

2 cp chicken broth
1 cp frozen peas or lima beans

4 cp chopped or shredded chicken

I like to get my chicken on the bone. I will boil the chicken & debone it. Reserving the chicken broth for later use.

Preheat oven to 400 deg. Heat butter in skillet over medium heat. Add onion, celery, garlic, carrots and cook until the carrots begin to soften. Season with salt & pepper.

Reduce the heat and stir in the flour. Then stir in the cream and broth until combined. Cook several minutes until slightly thickened. Add chicken, frozen veget, potatoes. Remove from heat.

Place pie crust over the top of the chicken mixture. Cut vents in the top of the crust. Bake approx. 35-40 min. or until the top of the crust is browned.

**NOTE** Cooking time will be longer when baking in a pie plate with a top and bottom crust.

Faery Stockings & what's brewing....

I know all those inquiring minds out there are just "DYING"  to find out what I have been up to (besides cruising the internet for the odd & unusual...). I have been trying hard to finish up a few creations that have been languishing on my work table. But before we get to them, let me show you my latest!

Fairy Stockings! 

Complete with a faux sucker and faux candy canes (or are they fuzzy candy canes?). I've got them listed on eBay. Click here.

Wouldn't they look cute on a tabletop Halloween tree ??? HHhhmmm ...... gives me an idea.....

                                     But back to those poor languising projects. First we'll stop at my Pumpkin Patch where some JOLs are drying . Some are going to be vintagesque candy containers & a couple are just plain old JOLs (they still have all their brains about them!).

And that leads us to my Goddess. She sat on my work table for almost 6 months! Poor thing! And what was even worse she was in the guise of a man. No wonder I never could quite work the sculpt - the gender was all wrong & the intent of the piece wasn't correct. Once I decided to create my Tree Goddess, she has literally jumped from my hands with life! She's still not quite finished - I'm working on giving her 'clothes' (bark). But I'll let you have another peak when she's dry & before she gets paint.