Showing posts with label pie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pie. Show all posts

Bastilla

Today, we're going to talk about a chicken pie that's so delicious, in fact, I think it's the best thing we've ever made!

This dish was inspired by our friend Mike and Lindsey's recent trip to Morocco and the President Choice's frozen version, but we believe our homemade version is 1000 times better.

Gabe was the chef behind all of this, I was the helper plus the photo-taker.




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Bastilla:Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie

Bastilla:Moroccan Chicken Pot Pie

Gabe said he didn't follow a specific recipe, and kind of just made reference from a couple recipes online and improvised, which is what he's good at doing when it comes to cooking.

The ingredients are as follows: onions, sweet potatoes, chicken thighs, chopped prunes, golden raisins, cinnamon, yellow curry and some chicken stock for the filling; and phyllo pastry, almond slices, butter and confectioner's sugar for the shell.

We cooked the chicken thighs and onions first to get the flavours out, and then added in the rest of the ingredients for the filling. The sweet potatoes needed to be boiled and peeled before putting into the filling mixture. the sweet poatoes gives the filling more body and the golden raisins and prunes gives it a sweet flare.

The phyllo pastry was laid in the baking dish in layers with butter,crushed almond slices and confectioner's sugar in between the layers. Once the fillings are put in the baking dish, the pie should be wrapped up by the phyllo layers with the same ingredients layered in between.

Now pop it into the oven at 375F for about 30-45 mins or until the shell is golden brown.

sheppard's pie

for some reason, this is always one of my favourite comfort foods since i was a kid. i believe its a dish that originated from england and ireland which basically combined leftovers into a casserole. Either my mom made it from scratch when i was a kid.. or it was one of those schneider's microwaveable ones for an afterschool meal. yes, that's right, i always had a meal after i came home from school. Its a major reason i've maintained the gorgeous figure i have today!

sheppard's pie for dinner
so we had it for dinner, basically used 2.5 lbs of ground beef (although ground lamb is good too). i first cooked one large onion diced up, then added the browned beef, frozen corn and a healthy splash of worchester sauce. put this all on the bottom of the casserole dish pan then spread out mash potato in which i mixed in garlic, diced green onion. finished it off by grating parmasean all on top. baked it for about 45mins until it got all golden and crusty on top! and yes, i did use a fork to groove the top of the mash

sheppard's pie for lunch
and of course we had it for lunch the next day =]

popeye's

i spoke to may today! i decided to just call her, and she picked up! apparently she's eating well.. and went to the places that bill and I recommended to her. wuhoo! stay tuned for her posts.. she'll be back in 2 days.

popeye's lunch

so.. my leftover popeye's lunch. the day before, my mom bought popeye's to eat with congee. so, the next day for lunch i ate the leftovers of that, plus a steamed bun and a ridiculous monster salad cuz i felt guilty for eating popeye's 2 days in a row. I was extremely full after this meal.. what was i thinking?

green onion

my grandmother's caregiver taught my mom how to make "chung yeo bang" - which translates to green onion bun/pastry in cantonese. these are one of my favourites, and they were so damn good, i'll definately have to learn how to make them myself for the future.

pumpkin pie

pumpkin pie from southbrook farms! the velvety soft sweet texture is amazing.