The Best Pot Pie Ever!

This Pot Pie is the Best! Because it is Exactly How You Want it and You Only Want the Best!

Back in 1988, I was lucky enough to get to move to Odessa, Texas. Boy, did I love it there! We were on the far west side of town, out in the middle of nowhere with the oil pump jacks and the wild packs of guinea hens! It was fantastic - another lifestyle that was a dream of mine.

However, dreams end. This one did but I did bring some memories with me from that beautifully ugly part of Texas! And also realized that life is different most everywhere you go. Bring what you need with you, but don't shut out the adventures of the new place.

I was working with a bunch of ladies and one afternoon during break time, everyone was talking about what they were going to make for dinner and how rushed they were to do so. This one girl, Connie, was telling that she makes (homemade)chicken pot pies from scratch. She went into this long recipe of creation that she did and I listened and then thought to myself..."good grief... all that for a chicken pot pie? Just buy one from Stouffers or Banquet, let the oven do do all the work and you spend your time with your kids!" I went back to work shaking my head - no wonder these ladies were always rushing!

But for some reason that story Connie told stuck in my memory banks - or as my 7 year old grand daughter refers to it - the pages of my brain - and for some strange and really odd reason, many years later in the early 1990's, for some strange and really odd reason, I got the strange and really odd notion to make a chicken pot pie from scratch. For some strange and really odd reason, Connie's "recipe" was still vividly on a page in my brain and one Saturday I made a homemade chicken pot pie - totally from scratch and memory.

No strange or really odd reason about it - my pot pie turned out fantastic! So fantastic that my son raved about it and asked for more! Often!! So quick and easy I enjoyed making them and of course, made several at once and froze the others! Then just take it out of the freezer before I went to work and put it in the fridge and when I got home, pop it into the oven! No nuke'um power here! While baking, I changed clothes, got the kids settled and the rest of the meal going and within an hour all was ready to sit down and eat!!