Frank bought me this cookbook for Christmas (he knew I REALLY wanted it) and I have to say this is probably one of the best $10 investments he's ever made. Some of the recipes in here don't interest me much, but that still leaves LOADS of recipes that do. And all the ones I've tried are awesome! Tonight's dinner is Hungry Girl's Kickin' Chicken Pot Pie. SUPER quick & easy.
This is what it looked like right out of the oven. YUM!
This is half of the pie for 10 points. Usually it's 11.5 for half of the pie, but I wound up using a much smaller piece of chicken than usual, so that cut a point and a half off the total. You just take an 8 oz. boneless chicken breast , cut it into bite size pieces, and brown it all in a frying pan sprayed with non-stick spray. Once the chicken pieces are no longer pink inside, you dump it in a mixing bowl with 3 (generous) cups of frozen mixed vegetables. Throw in a can of 98% fat free cream of celery soup and 2 or 3 tablespoons of water. Mix it up, then spread it out in a pie plate. Put the pie plate in a pre-heated 350* oven for 20 minutes, then remove it. On top of the pie, stretch *5 triangles of dough from a tube of refrigerated reduced fat crescent rolls. Make sure all the sides of the dough are touching each other. It stretches better if you unroll the dough on a plate and let it come to room temperature while it's in the oven for the first 20 minutes. *(in the cookbook, she tells you to use 3 triangles of dough, mash them together, then roll them out, but that never worked right for me, so I added 2 more pieces then tacked on the extra couple of points) Then put it back in the oven for another 20 - 30 minutes - until the top is golden brown. Viola! Season to taste. 1/4 of the pie (made with the extra dough) is only 5.5 points, and half of the pie is 11.5. Not too shabby!
We had a small salad on the side, as usual. This has some almonds in it, and some Balsamic spray.
Frank bought me this cookbook for Christmas (he knew I REALLY wanted it) and I have to say this is probably one of the best $10 investments he's ever made. Some of the recipes in here don't interest me much, but that still leaves LOADS of recipes that do. And all the ones I've tried are awesome! Tonight's dinner is Hungry Girl's Kickin' Chicken Pot Pie. SUPER quick & easy.
This is what it looked like right out of the oven. YUM!
This is half of the pie for 10 points. Usually it's 11.5 for half of the pie, but I wound up using a much smaller piece of chicken than usual, so that cut a point and a half off the total. You just take an 8 oz. boneless chicken breast , cut it into bite size pieces, and brown it all in a frying pan sprayed with non-stick spray. Once the chicken pieces are no longer pink inside, you dump it in a mixing bowl with 3 (generous) cups of frozen mixed vegetables. Throw in a can of 98% fat free cream of celery soup and 2 or 3 tablespoons of water. Mix it up, then spread it out in a pie plate. Put the pie plate in a pre-heated 350* oven for 20 minutes, then remove it. On top of the pie, stretch *5 triangles of dough from a tube of refrigerated reduced fat crescent rolls. Make sure all the sides of the dough are touching each other. It stretches better if you unroll the dough on a plate and let it come to room temperature while it's in the oven for the first 20 minutes. *(in the cookbook, she tells you to use 3 triangles of dough, mash them together, then roll them out, but that never worked right for me, so I added 2 more pieces then tacked on the extra couple of points) Then put it back in the oven for another 20 - 30 minutes - until the top is golden brown. Viola! Season to taste. 1/4 of the pie (made with the extra dough) is only 5.5 points, and half of the pie is 11.5. Not too shabby!
We had a small salad on the side, as usual. This has some almonds in it, and some Balsamic spray.
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