When I started cooking today I knew two things: I wanted pie, and I wanted sun-dried tomatoes
I wanted a meat pie, but the meat still was a mystery. The onion/garlic basis, on the contrary, was an obligatory checkpoint.
I find it so difficult not to use onion (or cousins like shallots, or leeks) when cooking. The mere perfume of sizzling onions is enough to activate my salivary glands…
Ah, I found the meat: versatile and easy to cook chicken breasts. I defrosted them and diced them in a jiffy.
Yes, defrosted.
When one has to cook on very short notice, or doesn’t always know what’s on the menu before grabbing the cutting board, frozen ingredients are a benediction!
A wok, a touch of butter, and onions plunge happily.
The moment I’ve been waiting for: friendly sizzling sound, penetrating scents, changing colors … this is magic.
Before the onions start to turn into gold, I add the meat and chopped garlic
The fire being “set for burn”, I add some spices, and start stirring happily. Something smells good! 🙂
Today’s special ingredient is added to the mix.
Again, I invoke the power of the freezing gust, and add frozen peas, and a mix of forest mushrooms.
I know, it doesn’t look too good.
But after some time, the ice is broken, the veggies feel perfectly at home.
And the produced water is a perfect way to hold everything together (like the Force)
The filling is done. Let’s choose the receiving dish
Dough’s easy, dough’s good.
Rolling is a game, and a precision one, when it comes to adjust the bottom layer in the dish
The very satisfying moment (of truth): the filling quantity is just perfect; not too much, not too few. And I didn’t measure anything.
More rolling, more adjusting.
And as a bonus, as I was feeling inspired, I crafted some dough decoration
Egg yolk is crucial at this point: it glues the decoration in place, and will give that golden color to the pie when cooked
35 minutes later, the oven is very proud of his work. I won’t contradict him
Another moment of truth: cutting the beast open!
Result: It worked, and is perfectly edible.
A last glimpse at today’s game: everybody won!
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