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I make my own as well - it is not quick, but it is outrageously good.
It takes me about 30 minutes or so.
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Originally Posted by hertfordshire
But that's making a full sized pot pie, right? It's not really the type of thing that would work for one serving, and pot pies don't really reheat very well IMO.
Yes, full sized. To reheat I use the oven, not the microwave. I don't like reheating it in the micro.
I'm sure I could make smaller ones using a muffin tin, shouldn't be that hard. I've never tried it. If I did that, I'd for sure use the Pillsbury rolled pie crust, would trace a cupcake paper or save the banquet tins then use those.
I prefer home made to the frozen. I've frozen mine, then cooked them.
I was a latchkey kid in the mid 70's and often my mom worked a lot of overtime to make ends meet. I had my share of Banquet, and equally as appalling were foods from a place called Murry's Steaks (Wash D.C./MD). They sold meats and prepared foods that grocery stores wouldn't sell. Ugh.
When I was about 14 I convinced my mom to let me try cooking. First dish was my attempt at a stir-fry with chicken. Although not authentic- it was better than the crap-in-a-box I ate several times a week. After a dozen or goes at it- my go to dish was pretty good. My mom even liked it. Very little mess.
I ate a lot of stir-fry over rice after that. Thank God.
I used to “cook” as a teen with the Kraft all in one spaghetti dinners in a box. It had the spaghetti, a tin can of meat sauce and a little packet of cheese. I remember them being delicious! Remember when meat sauce in a jar actually had meat in it? Now they say “meat flavored”.
I also “cooked” using the Chun King chicken chow Mein, with the sauce and meat in one can and the veggies in the attached bottom can. Along with a box of the little frozen egg rolls. Probably a week of sodium in one shot!
Yes, full sized. To reheat I use the oven, not the microwave. I don't like reheating it in the micro.
I'm sure I could make smaller ones using a muffin tin, shouldn't be that hard. I've never tried it. If I did that, I'd for sure use the Pillsbury rolled pie crust, would trace a cupcake paper or save the banquet tins then use those.
I prefer home made to the frozen. I've frozen mine, then cooked them.
I would eat the whole batch in one day. Pot pie is one of those things I find hard to resist.
I remember those. I used to ask for them when mom was willing to buy me a treat.
That's what my mom did. When dad was gone on business, sometimes she'd buy me Swanson Salisbury steak and those shrimp cocktails. As a kid that Salisbury steak and shrimp cocktail might as well have been Delmonico's. I thought I had fine dining then.
Haven't eaten any of Banquets brands except for the pot pies since I was a teen. When my boys were playing youth baseball, I would often serve the chicken pot pies after a night game when they would come home and still have hours of homework left to do. They considered it a treat.
When I was a teenager we subsisted on Banquet "Cookin' Bags". Basically salisbury steak & gravy in a plastic pouch that you would boil in water. No wonder all my after school jobs were in restaurants where I could get a decent meal.
But that's making a full sized pot pie, right? It's not really the type of thing that would work for one serving, and pot pies don't really reheat very well IMO.
Chicken pot pie doesn't reheat very well?? Huh?? I don't know what kind you are reheating. We reheat mine every time I make it (I make a huge one) and it is damn good. If I make it at home and BF is not here to eat it - I will portion it into containers and heat it up for lunches. Insanely good!
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