not the prettiest pie I ever made
but this was a test run , so that's okay. I started with this>>> two frozen serves of chicken hotpot and some frozen chicken tenderloins. I cooked the chopped up tenderloins , then stirred in the hotpot and simmered. I was going to add peas, but changed my mind and added sliced mushrooms . What's in the blue pot at the back? spaghetti sauce of course. A favourite standby. Cook a batch, freeze individual portions, easy quick dinners. then I started making the pastry and here is where it gets interesting. A while ago, I'd heard that pastry made with lard was good pastry. I'd always used butter , but I bought some lard , put it in the fridge and ignored it for months. I decided to use it for this. I began rubbing the lard into the flour and noticed it smelled like pig. Nothing unusual there, lard is rendered pig fat after all. But if the finished pie smelled or tasted like pig, I was going to be annoyed. Another thing, even with re...