How many of you watched any 9/11 shows yesterday? I had seen it before, but watched the 9/11 documentary that two frenchmen made. They were following a rookie firefighter in Ladder 1 and just happened to be there on that fateful day.
It still doesn’t seem real to me that it even happened. 9/11 is one of the reasons I don’t work in downtown Chicago anymore. I am pretty sure if there are terrorist attacks again, they aren’t going to target a far suburb of Chicago.
I had just gotten to my desk at 9:00 that day, and since my office at the time was on Michigan Avenue across from the Wrigley building and just south of the John Hancock building, within 20 minutes they evacuated our building. It was a sea of humanity getting back to the train station. My typical train commute was one hour, but that day it took me 5 hours to get home because all the trains were so full and it made every single stop.
So maybe it wasn’t a total coincidence that I had comfort food on the brain. This recipe is from October’s Food Network magazine (can’t find the link online) I found it – here’s the recipe! I made a few changes – I used prepared pie crusts, and for some reason their recipe didn’t call for potatoes – I’ve never had a pot pie without potatoes, so I added them.
The best part is that I started out with an already cooked rotisserie chicken. I normally don’t buy them, but when I realized the cooked version was only .75 cents more than the raw chicken, I saved a step.
After I picked off all the meat, I threw the skin and bones into the chicken broth and let it simmer for 45 minutes before straining it – holy cow was this broth flavorful! The best part was that Tony loved it! He liked something I made š
About half of my potatoes were heart shaped. š
I didn’t add the peas until I put the pot pie in the oven.
That picture was taken this morning – and it’s cold from the fridge – sadly it’s dark already by dinnertime and the pictures I took last night looked like ass. But boy, this is one delicious pot pie!
It’s supposed to get to the mid-80’s today, so I think I am going to bike ride. What’s on tap for your exercise today?
Check out all my Holiday Challengers – so many people to cheer each other on – love it! Let’s make it a great day. š
Get this – the rotisserie chickens we sell at our store are actually cheaper than buying most of the raw whole chickens we sell. I think they are smaller, but still a good deal.
Ohhhh…Pot pie! It’s been years since I’ve had one. Always reminds me of my Dad making them for us when we were little. š Such sweet memories!
Pot pie is a favorite in our house, but yours looks SO DELICIOUS!!!
Oooh pot pie! I did not watch any of the shows. I remember and those shows make me cry. So Daelyn and I went on a date, a very girlie pinkies out date. So when I remember the tenth anniversary of 911 it will be a happy memory of me and my little girl living life to the fullest so that those people and our troops do not die in vain. But I still remember.
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Heart shaped potatoes?! How perfect for a day like yesterday <3
Such a sad, poignant day. It’s hard here because it’s my BD too, and it just seems so hard to celebrate. But family and friends came and make it a good day! That’s all we can do.
I saw the documentary too. Maybe the sadness of the day is what got me off track too…I don’t know. Just glad I’m not alone. Thanks for your post…
Heart shaped potatoes – how cute! Natural light makes such a huge difference in the quality of food photos! It gets more and more difficult this time of year to accomplish that. I need to make one of those light boxes for myself.
No 9/11 were watched here. My son’s birthday is on 9/11 and we try to make the day all about him!
Pot pie season again! Yum!
I watched many shows yesterday and was pretty much teary eyed all day….