Damn this food porn tasted good

Even though we were slack in the game food department, we still got some good food porn. Today I stayed with the comfort-food theme and made chicken pot pie. Ooooooh, baby. Nothing like it on a cold autumn night. Of course, it wasn't that cold tonight, but let's not get technical, OK? You will need a number of ingredients, including a medium to large onion, 4 or 5 carrots, about 5 ribs of celery, two cloves of garlic, some flour, some sugar, salt, pepper and a stick of butter, still cold and hard. There are some other ingredients that are optional, but you can make that call later.

We will start with the crust. Slice 5 tablespoons off the stick of butter, and mix them with 1-1/4 cups of flour, 1 teaspoon of sugar and 1/4 teaspoon of salt. Put all that into a food processor (or a regular old blender if, like me, you don't have something grand enough to be called a food processor), sprinkle about 3 tablespoons of ice water over that and pulse it all together until it is crumbly but holds together if squeezed.

Seriously, the recipe says ice water.

The recipe also says don't over-mix. I probably did, but what the fuck.

Once mixed, take the dough, form it into a disc, wrap it in plastic and refrigerate for at least an hour.

OK, now chop your onions, carrots and celery.

Melt the rest of the butter (three tablespoons) in a large pan and add the chopped vegetables. Sautee those over medium-high heat for about 10 minutes.

Chop up your garlic.

Toss the chopped garlic into the sauteed vegetables, then add 1/2 cup of flour:

Stir it in:

Once the vegetables are coated, stir in 4 cups of chicken broth. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Salt, pepper, etc.  You can add peas, corn or whatever at this point.

Stir in 3 cups of cooked chicken. At some point during this process, you probably should have been cooking chicken in some fashion. Anyway, toss it in there now.

After simmering for about 10 minutes, pour the whole shooting match into a two-quart baking dish.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, put that disc of dough on a cutting board covered in flour.

Roll that sucker out to about 1/8 inch thickness (no, I didn't take a picture of the rolling process. Sue me.) and put it over the filling, folding the edges in.

Bake at 375 for 45 to 50 minutes, then let it cool for 15 minutes before serving. Then enjoy the hell out of it.

Bon appetit.