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I had The Craving[tm] last night so I made pie. Mmm, pie. It was easy. I felt compelled to share. In a frying pan I sauteed off a large handful of button mushrooms and a large handful of cubed bacon bits. If I was using ham cubes I'd add them in much later. I added a knob of butter for flavour. Whilst those were browning nicely I stripped all the meat off one of thsoe preroasted chickens you can buy from supermarkets. It was a fairly small chicken but I got a surprising amount of meat off it - enough so that I can munch on the drumstick and thigh whilst I cooked. When the mushrooms and bacon were sufficently done I bunged in the chicken and a medium size pot of cream (about 600ml) which, in retrospect might ahve been too little. The filling was quite gooey. Perhaps some wine (white or red) might have helped loosen it up a little. I stirred in a generous tsp of wholegrain mustard (dijon or english would have worked equally well) and then spooned the mixture into two ordinary bowls. Meanwhile I bought one of those ready to cook sheets of puff pastry and cut out two circles slightly larger than the bowl which I scaored with a cross pattern and brushed with milk. These I put over the bowls and pressed down the overlap and stuck in a 200 degree oven for about 20 minutes (or until the pastry looked right, really). Delicious and dead easy. I didn't do gravy but you could. I also didn't do vegetables but new potatos and mange tout would be delicious. I was stuffed at the end - the recipe could probably do 3.
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