Ganache's Chicken Pie

I am really busy. I am understress learning some alien program at home for office purpose! Primavera's SureTrak is so pain-in-ass ! Currently we are upgrading from Microsoft Project to ST. ST is a project management program. Anyone using it now? share some tips?

Anyway, I am so busy to cook, but I still have time to eat chicken pie! he he he! I love my baker's chicken pie a lot! I think i been eating this for 1 month ! I have chicken pie, beef pie in fridge! I order some frozen pies from http://www.ganache-ganache.blogspot.com/ , bake it for breakfast or just any time I need some food to kill my hunger!

ok, tata for now, continue my ST.

Lamb Shepherd Pie

Lamb Shepherd Pie.

Story begins like this. I wanted to make Beef burger, so I get sis to buy some minced beef from Consfood. When she got home, she brought me a 700g of minced Lamb at RM 17.90 !!!! so expensive ! I 'm like...errr why lamb ? ( sis said: because beef out of stock) what can I do with lamb ? ok deal, I decided to make Lamb-burger then.
How funny, I cant get a good Burger Bun with a dome shape and in cocoa brown colour ! we can't find it, other than those 6 or 4 normal sweet bun packed in a bag sell in bakery shop, which I hate. Can't find good bun = no good burger~!

[ Sample of bun that I want to find. Pic by Yusheng]

Lastly, I used Terri's A Very Very Good Cottage Pie recipe. She put double "very" to describe the food, while I give this recipe tripe "very" good !
Very satisfied with the pie. One thing I like about this is the meat filling not much of cheap mixed vege like peas/carrots which sort of distracted from enjoying my steak-pie. Lols


I steamed the potatoes for 20 minutes. Steaming will retain its nutrition ?


I guess this recipe gives a good bolognese sauce too.

lining tomatoes slice on top ...

Now I know...

cottage pie = beef

Shepherd pie = lamb / mutton

chicken??

Chicken Pie

Denise's Flower Chicken Pie

Every Friday I need to prepare what-to-make-conundrum for my weekend post. As usual, Friday nite I wud start checking thru recipe files which I have printed out from blogs, websites.

HA! Chicken Pie should be nice, for my weekend's brunch + Monday's Breakfast.

Ingredients
Pie crust :
Butter 70g
Sugar 23g
Flour 95g
Cheese powder 5g ( I replaced with salt)
(Mix all ingredients well, and store in the fridge for 15 - 20 minutes)

Fillings:
1/2 can campbell chicken mushroom soup
1 cup diced chicken
1/2 cup mushroom
1/2 cup potato
1/2 diced onion

1. Heat up the pan with some oil, cook the onion
2. Stir in chicken, mushroom, potato, cook well for 2 minutes
3. Add-in the chicken mushroom soup & 1 cup water
4. Cook and simmer until the sauce get thicken. Off heat.

Preheat oven at 190C. Bake for 20 minutes plus, until top is golden brown.
When the Pie top is about to turn golden brown, brush some egg-wash. and return to bake.




Denise's Chicken Pie

I picked my recipe based on these 2 recipes~~
Resources :
Su Yin's Chicken Pie ( I pick the sauce here)
Choi's Cookery ( I pick the crust here)

Open Shepherd's Pie

Our classic shepherd's pie used to be ground beef at the bottom, and top with mashed potatoes.
I made a cocktail Open Shepherd's Pie ! with minced chicken as the Toppings

Easy ! Pipe ur mashed potato according to ur likings (Make a hollow in the middle)! and baked under 200C for 20 minutes.
After baked, fill-in each mini potatoes with some meat&sauce.

Here's are the classic ones












Ingredients
800 g minced chicken / ground beef
2 carrot sticks ( boiled & diced)
3 tomatoes (diced)
1 brown onion (diced)
marinate
Salt & pepper & Garlic powder
Sauce
1 can pasta sauce
1 can tomato thick puree
sugar to taste
parsley & Oregano powder
potato
400 g potato
salt water to boiled
1 egg
50 g butter

Method(meat)

1. Marinate the meat for half an hour.
2. Heat up the cooking pan with 2 T oil, pan fry the onion, follow by meat.
3. Stir fry a bit, add in tomatoes & carrots
4. Pour in all the sauce, and sugar to taste. sprinkle some dried parsley & oregano
5. Dish up .

Method (potato)

1. Cut the potato into cubes. Boil with salt water for 20 minutes until soft.
2. butter ur bowl, and mash the potatoes until fairly smooth.
3. Beat the egg in a separate bowl.
4. Now, add in the beated egg into the mashed potatoes. Blend well.
5. Fill into your piping tube & start make hollow shape.
6. Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown at 200C.