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How To Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food
By Mark Bittman, Alan Witschonke
Wiley - 2006
ISBN: 0471789186

How to Cook Everything (Completely Revised 10th Anniversary Edition): 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food
By Mark Bittman
Wiley - 2008
ISBN: 0764578650

How To Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food
By Mark Bittman, Alan Witschonke, Alan Witschonke
Wiley - 2006
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How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food
By Mark Bittman, Alan Witschonke
Wiley - 1998
ISBN: 0028610105

How to Cook Everything Simple Recipes for Great Food
By Mark Bittman
- 1998
ISBN: 0965785157

How to Cook Everything: 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food

Chicken Pot Pie

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Cuisine: North American | Course Type: Main Courses

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11th October 2009

andrew from Vancouver Island, BC

Boy this is a good recipe, and in typical Bittman fashion is very adaptable. We are usually lazy and get a rotisserie chicken from the supermarket (or save some chicken from a roast) and use some commercial stock, but one day I'll do the whole thing from scratch - whole chicken, stock and all.

I've tried it with biscuit crust, puff pastry (from frozen) and potato crust. It's great all three ways, though I found the biscuits to be awfully thick - in future I'd reduce the amount.

Some notes: the sauce isn't very thick, though on refrigeration the leftovers do thicken up somewhat. He calls for 2 tablespoons of flour to almost 3 cups of liquid, which doesn't really do the job. More flour, cornstarch maybe? Secondly, it's very hard to find pearl onions where I live (inexplicably), so this time I used small shallots, and they worked out very well.

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