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Well.. Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and I’m gearing up for getting some large orders for my Valentine Cupcake Bouquet… so far I’ve gotten quite a bit of interest from friends for these bouquets but I hope to get lots of orders for this since I think this is quite a unique gift for Valentine’s Day 
Do check out my previous post for my Valentine’s Cupcake Bouquet and my specials page
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Had my Chinese New Year reunion dinner recently and in my family it’s quite a huge affair with basically my extended family coming together for dinner. As my mom is the eldest of her brothers and sisters, the reunion dinner is usually held at my mom’s place with my aunts, uncles and cousins all coming over to have the reunion dinner.
My mom usually cooks up a storm for the dinner and includes all the yummy chinese new year foods like “chap choi” which is a vegetable dish, as well as other traditional dishes like steamed mushrooms with oysters, sea cucumber and “fat choi” which I’ve always termed hair since I find it looks like it :p sounds gross but I love eating it
Anyway, decided to make some non-traditional dishes at home and contribute it to our reunion dinner. Thinking of what to make, I finally decided on making individual chicken pies, mashed potatoes to go with my mom’s beef goulash and lastly for dessert I decided to make a no bake strawberry cheesecake.
I had finished making the cheesecake, and mashed potatoes, and was half way through with my chicken pie before I realised that I had forgotten to take photos of the process! Arrgghh… so unfortunately I only have a few photos of my chicken pie to show you :p Here’s a close up view… yummy don’t you think
However, you can see pictures and process to my strawberry cheesecake in a previous post here
I started out making the chicken pie by chopping up all the ingredients for the chicken pie filling which included potatoes, onions, chicken and mushrooms. The worst was the onions.. cutting it up made me keep crying and as there wasn’t much of a wind that day, the noxious onion fumes just wouldn’t blow away which just made the tearing all the more worse. At the end of chopping up the onions my eyes were all red and just wouldn’t stop leaking. I had to wait for a while before I could go back into the kitchen to finish up chopping up all the rest of the ingredients. Once everything was chopped up, I then put everything in a big pot and began to cook all the ingredients. Of course to make it creamy, I used a shortcut and added Cambell’s Mushroom soup to the ingredients… at the end of everything, this is what the filling looked like. Of course no chicken pie filling would be complete without the mixed vegetables
To save myself some time I decided not to make the puff pastry myself but to just buy ready made puff pastry from the supermarket. After thawing it out I then rolled out the pastry and using round cutters, proceeded to cut up the pastry before molding the pastry into the pie cups… these were what the pies looked like before baking..
After putting it in the oven at 180 degrees for 35 minutes, these were what the finished product looks like…
The chicken pie was quite a hit at the dinner although I do need to work on being more consistent in adding the filling for the chicken pie.. haha… think there was some with more pastry than filling although I’ve always loved the chicken pie pastry.. haha…. Anyway, I made too much filling and still have some left over which I’ve put in the fridge. I think I’ll either do another batch of chicken pies or maybe make some baked rice with the filling… yummy…
Well.. that’s it from me… getting a little hungry from talking about all that food.. hehe.. luckily I made some extra bottles of pineapple tarts and almond cookies for myself this Chinese New Year.. think I’m going to go snack on them now hee hee…
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