Epic Thanksgiving Dinner Failure...

It was just the two of us this year, so I didn't want to make a giant feast, however, I did want to make a nice dinner. Well, that well-meaning desire turned into a complete failure...  Almost!

It was - 10 degrees when I got up on Thanksgiving morning. Ice had formed on the inside of the windows. The sun was shining bright and our solar panels gobbled it up. I needed the excess power to bake our simple Thanksgiving dinner. We had decided on Chicken Pot Pie. Simple enough, right? 

No peas, please. Number One Husband does not like peas.
I personally think that peas complete the dish.

I used the Dutch oven lid as my templet for the crust. 

This is the point where it all went bad. The recipe is a great recipe from the Joy of Cooking cookbook. I decided to do a basket weave crust, and this is why it failed. If I had made a plain crust, it would have turned out. 

The sauce overflowed all over the crust. The crust was ruined! 

I scraped the crust off the top and bagged up the delicious filling. I wasn't going to let this stop us from having a form of chicken pot pie, eventually.

A few days later I made some mini crusts and served it with the chicken pot pie filling. It was awesome! The crust to filling ratio was perfect. I really like a bottom crust on a pot pie, but never made one for fear that it would turn out soggy. This is my new pot pie technique. 

We ended up having Fajitas later in the evening on Thanksgiving. I wasn't hungry. Number One Husband fended for himself until I got hungry. Although dinner failed, Thanksgiving was a success. We were thankful and grateful for all of our blessings...

Mrs. Smith