Hooray a picture and yummy chicken pie

I seem to have trouble posting my pictures from photobucket on to the blog using the iPad.  But I will persevere.

The above picture illustrates the basic and fundamental law of pie making.  That you put "yum yum" on it in pastry letters.

It started out years ago when V and J were quite small, to try and encourage the fussy devils to eat it. The first one said "beef pie yum yum".  As you see we have gone continental with this one, and got jam tarts with the left overs.

So, easy homemade cheats chicken pie

A block of frozen puff pastry
Left over chicken from the Sunday roast (or a couple of chicken breasts / thighs/ whichever you prefer cubed and fried in a little oil to seal, no need to fry if using already cooked leftover chicken)
1 onion chopped
one can condensed mushroom soup
A couple of handfuls of frozen peas and corn or some diced carrot - whatever you like really


Fry off the onion in a little oil (other veggies too if required)
Add the tin of soup - you might want to water it down a little, I tend to swill out the tin to get Any remaining soup
Add chicken and heat through

Roll out the defrosted pastry into a rectangle - or whatever you need to fit your dish

Put the chicken mix into a  greased pie tin (mine are from Lakeland, but you might use anything suitable.  I find the glass lids of casseroles good for a shallower pie)
Pop the pastry on the top and trim around the edge
Re roll the pastry and cut out yum yum with pastry cutters
Glaze pastry with milk or, if you go really mad, beaten egg
Add yum yum and glaze

Put into a preheated oven, gas 6 or electric equivalents until pastry is cooked and brown (about 15  - 20 mins)

Eat with potatoes and any other veg.