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11-01-2018, 06:18 PM | #1 |
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The wife and I grew up
Eating chicken pot pies.
Affordable and for struggling families we both came from? A staple,especially at winter time. Had them for supper this evening and it's a good rememberece of our childhoods. Me in WVa, The wife in Tx and Va. |
11-01-2018, 07:05 PM | #2 |
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I like chicken pot pies.
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11-01-2018, 07:41 PM | #3 |
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11-14-2018, 12:17 AM | #4 |
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WE buy about a dozen a month. I work really FUBAR'd hours this time of year so, they're a quick, easy alternative.
Oh, Beef for me, is the wife's favorite. |
11-14-2018, 08:00 AM | #5 |
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We still eat them. Haven't had a Banquet brand one in a very long time. Hell I have a long list of cheap food from my youth I still eat. One thing I use to eat with my dad that I have not had in 40 years is potted meat.
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11-14-2018, 09:17 AM | #6 |
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It's nice to hear someone say 'supper' other than me.
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11-14-2018, 09:24 AM | #7 |
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11-14-2018, 11:13 AM | #8 |
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Kraft Mac & cheese.
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11-14-2018, 11:21 AM | #9 |
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My daughter makes a really good chicken pot pie from scratch. Since she started doing that, I haven't bought any frozen ones in a very long time.
As a kid, though, I ate a lot of those frozen pot pies.
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11-15-2018, 05:35 PM | #10 |
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I make them a lot and freeze them.
Not from scratch though. I get the small aluminum tins, frozen pie crusts and cans of potatoes and peas/carrots. Cook some chicken in the dutch oven and make a gravy. Add what you prefer like potatoes and peas and carrots. I use the pie tin to pattern the top crust (2 per pie crust) and use the scraps to line the bottoms. Ladle it in, throw a top on and crimp it with a fork. Bake it hot and fast like that or freeze them and bake a little lower and longer when thawed. Last time I made them I think I made around 50. A close friend of me and my female companion was hit bad by cancer and we helped feed her family while they dealt with it. My son ate the majority though, he's literally a big block food engine. Food in, feces out and he moves forward. Me and the lady friend had our fair share too. |
11-15-2018, 07:23 PM | #11 |
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Marie Callender make good ones.
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11-17-2018, 12:58 AM | #12 |
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11-17-2018, 06:40 AM | #13 |
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11-17-2018, 02:22 PM | #14 |
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True on the Marie Callander. Great stuff.
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11-17-2018, 02:30 PM | #15 |
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Yepp. Dinner is a different meal. Mostly in the South
Where we were born poor white kids and living in the hollers of Appalachia. I didn't learn to write till I was a year old after all. Learned to read from the back of a cereal box. |
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