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Pie

Appetizers/Starters, Breakfast/Brunch, Lunch, Savory Snacks, Sides

Ukrainian-style Potato Cabbage + Leek Tart

It’s been an uninspiring period and I haven’t been feeling well but now that my tum tum is better, I feel like cooking and baking again. Comfort food on the menu, so I made this Ukrainian-style Potato Cabbage + Leek Tart as my weekend lunch food. The pan was actually the inspiration — I found it at a thrift store and just said “Ukraine” to me (go figure, with those colors!) What came first — the recipe or the pan? Sort of like what came first — the chicken or the egg!

13. April 2025

Appetizers/Starters, Dinner, Lunch, Savory Snacks

Erbazzone (ATK’s Swiss Chard Pie)

Switching gears, the cabbage family. Big and diverse and super healthy, I decided to start off this week with a swiss chard, part of the cabbage family, taking center stage. This slab-style pie makes a great light lunch, a snack or even an appetizer. I personally also think it would be a great thing to bring to a picnic or a potluck as it can be enjoyed hot or at room temperature.

16. February 2025

Dinner, Lunch

Tourtes Poulet et Champignons / French Chicken and Mushroom Pie

Dinner tonight night was this absolutely delicious Tourtes Poulet et Champignons (French Chicken and Mushroom Pie). It was seriously delicious. Flavorful and juicy chicken thighs (so dark meat, though you could also use chicken breast in this recipe) and mushrooms, in a creamy white wine thyme sauce, in a lovely puff pastry (both bottom and top crusts). The trick is to not have the bottom crust sog out, so the sauce has to be just perfect and not too much of it. Very, very rich. This recipe is for a full sized one but I made one a little smaller and even that will be dinner again tomorrow!

10. February 2025

Dinner

Steak Pie

Tonight is Burns Supper Night. I of course, did not remember this until this morning and the chances of procuring haggis at this late time (in the US, where finding it even with some advanced planning is a bit of a pain in the neck) so I had to go with making a Steak Pie. Not ideal of course, but better than nothing. Full up on multiple bottles of whisky though.

Now, what’s your favorite Robert Burns poem?

25. January 2025

Dinner, Lunch

Mushroom Pot Pie

In between everything else that is going on, I am trying to actually eat healthy and was inspired by some pot pie recipes that I had seen lately that weren’t chicken, so this one is a Mushroom Pot Pie, with a whole lot of mushrooms — like 4 pounds worth! I know that mushrooms aren’t exactly the favorite of everyone, but you could also make this as other vegetarian like mixed autumn veg of cauliflower and broccoli. The decoration isn’t mandatory, of course, but I had some pastry left over from the crust. Remember to let it sit for a few minutes because it is blazing hot out of the oven!

8. November 2024

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