Whatever happened to Rebecca Black, anyway? (The answer to this question is always YouTube.)
I have been thinking about chicken pot pie a lot lately, so last night I made it for dinner. I make Chrissy Teigen’s soup version of chicken pot pie fairly often (well not too often, even if you don’t dump the heavy cream in at the end it is still Heart Attack In A Bowl™) but I wanted the standard version.
I turned to our friends at America’s Test Kitchen and adapted the recipe to not have asparagus (????) and used onions instead of leeks. I petit brunoise'd my carrots because I have nothing but time to do such things. I also did the lattice puff pastry crust as instructed in the recipe but I think in the future I will just put the filling in a pie dish and put the pastry on top. The lattice was lovely but sometimes ATK is too fiddly for its own good.
Anyway, were you expecting two paragraphs about chicken pot pie today? I bet you weren’t! Keeping it fresh for you here at Hey Lady!
I have…a large amount of work to do today. Time, as we know, has taken on entirely new dimensions during the pandemic era. For me, the weekdays fly by and the weekends drag on endlessly. I feel like my to-do list is 100 times longer than it ever was in the Before. This is probably a distortion caused by stress? Again, all very cool and normal!
Our governor has started to talk about “reopening” the state beginning May 1. I don’t have any reason to believe Ohio will muck things up at this point, and I know these measures will be gradual, but I remain extremely question-mark about what happens next. A lot of people have proposed things like allowing people to start visiting friends and family. DOES EVERYONE REMEMBER THAT PARTY IN NEW JERSEY WHERE THEY ALL WOUND UP DEAD.
We can’t all stay home forever but I also can’t see sending people back into crowded restaurants or cubicle farms, either. I am also highly suspicious of the millions of people who apparently just…weren’t ever washing their hands? It’s very telling how much hand soap has disappeared from store shelves since this started. WHAT WERE YOU ALL DOING BEFORE.