Needles & Grooves

She has like 5 cookbooks on the table right now searching for the recipe and has triangulated the date of the original dinner was Nov 22nd.

She’s now telling me to stop laughing and saying “i bet i’ll find the recipe”

She just found a recipe in magazine for chicken and mushroom pot pie but we looked through the ingredients and there are no potatoes on the list. I wish I could fully convey how hilarious this all is.

Hang on I'm gunna make some popcorn.

This woman has physical copies of 4 decades worth of multiple cooking magazines and at least a hundred cookbooks, all heavily annotated, dog-eared, and flagged. Finding this recipe will not be easy.

She has now convinced herself that she was using “a new recipe that called for the mashed potatoes to be put on the bottom of the bowl.” She has indefinitely suspended her search for the mythical recipe.

I'm lightheaded, also now I REALLY want a pot pie.

My wife bought me a recipe box for christmas to prevent this madness. If we like a recipe, it goes in the box. If we don't who the fuck cares where it was. My oldest now wants me to write down recipes that have never been written down (my meatballs and my tomato sauce are just recipes I came up with from years of being a chef and working in italian restaurants. I just make them, no recipe needed.)

I guess I should write all the modified recipes down too. Like my collards are a modification of a recipe by Paula Deen.

I'm from PA so we have a different idea of what pot pie is here. If it has a crust that's "baked chicken pot pie". PA Dutch chicken pot pie is very different (and NGL, It's about a thousand times better than any other pot pie).

@dbarila can you post a link to a good recipe?

I've never made it myself because it's all about the very specific noodles. Here is more than you ever wanted to know about it though...

Except for the vegetable set, very similar to what we call chicken and dumplings (rich southerners call it chicken and pastry)

It does seem similar to a chicken and dumplings but it's a thick flat noodle instead of a dough ball. To me it has a very specific texture and taste to it.

Southerners make a flat dumpling not the biscuity ball things.

I wonder how well this gonna work with gf flour. May try this weekend.

@Lee Newman please give me an update if you make a gf version.

Will do…