Friday Pie Day Faux Pas: The Fruity Chicken Pies That Weren't

Right, so - I haven't made my own pastry for quite some time, choosing to use those ready-made ones you get instead - simply because life's too short for me to waste hours trying to get that pastry right. But this week, I felt like giving it another go as I wanted to make some mini pies.

Mini pies = less pastry = less chance of screwing it up.

That was the theory anyway.

Ok, so they don't look too bad, do they? Well, let me just say that the pastry wasn't the only problem...

I've got to be honest - my heart just wasn't in the whole pie-making business this week *collective gasp from pie lovers everywhere*. I think I was just tired. This is probably why I felt like being lazy with this recipe hoping it would still turn out nice.

Wrong.

These were meant to be soft mini pies, with tender chicken pieces, oozing with a fresh apple-y, cheesy sauce, and wrapped lovingly in a parcel of crumble-in-your-mouth pastry.

But I used mince instead, diced the apple rather than turning it into a puree and er, forgot to add the cheese altogether. And when you have to make a focussed effort to break the darn thing in two to eat it, you know the pastry has gone wrong.

Even though the pies I make each week aren't always pastry-based, I thought I'd be at least a bit better at it by now! Erm, I clearly have a long way to go.

Pie out.

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