Homemade Chicken Pot Pie: Easier Than You Think

Chicken Pot Pie

All time favorite at my house.

Make Dog Treats At Home: Natural, Quick and Easy

Delicious Dog Treats Using Stuff On Hand 

The other night I was making a chicken pot pie from a chicken I had boiled earlier in the day.

I needed the broth to boil my potatoes and carrots in, it creates a richer flavor in the pie.

Well, you know how you get that chicken stuff that floats to the top of the broth.

Stuff that I skim off and toss. 

I thought to myself, "why are you throwing this away?, your dogs would love it"

as they were swarming around me.

It was like a light bulb went off. 

Make some dog treats with it!

I finished draining it and put that chicken stuff in a bowl.

Walked to the pantry and grabbed some good stuff for them.

I ended up grabbing oatmeal, Flaxseed meal and pumpkin seed meal.

Mix it all to a consistency that looked like it would bake well.

I happen to notice a half eaten apple that someone just left on the counter.

Wasn't that sweet of them.

So I grated it up and put it on top of the dough.

I used a round cake pan lined with parchment paper and 

pushed the mixture around the pan to a thin layer.

Baked it with the pot pie at 375 degrees.

When it looked and felt crisp, I took it out to cool.

After it cooled I was able to break into pieces.

The dogs loved it.

I love treating my doggies.

My hubby jokes that our dogs eat better than we do.

Really its because they don't complain about my cooking :)

These were so easy to make and were done at the same time of the pie.

Which was a bonus.  Dogs were happy and I loved having a treat for them.

I wanted to share this not really because of the recipe but because of the easiness of 

making use of what we have and not being wasteful.

My Dog Treats Ingredients were:

Chicken pieces (residue) and broth

Oatmeal

Flaxseed meal

Pumpkin seed meal

apple pieces.

Homemade Crescent Rolls

I admit it... I am a bread lover. 

 I believe bread is the perfect compliment to every meal.

Breakfast needs toast.

Lunch needs a sandwich.

Supper needs a roll.

VEGAN BLACK BEAN BURGERS... that aren't mushy

 Vegan Black Bean Burgers 

I love these burgers.....for a lot of reasons.

But my top 2 reasons are: I can freeze them and they are packed with goodness.

Quick Easy Pizza Using Garden Herbs

What's for Dinner?

Homemade pizza ready for the oven in 15 minutes.

Really!

All natural, easy dog treats

Meet the Sweet Potato

It's cold outside... let's have some Potato Soup.

Potato soup

My all time favorite soup.

Easy to make.

Recipe:

peel as many potatoes as you like

dice them into small sections

cover them in the sauce pan with milk

cook on medium heat until they are soft

Amazing Oatmeal Scotchies

So if you have never heard of an oatmeal scotchie they are an oatmeal cookie with butterscotch morsels instead of raisins.
I am always on a quest to find the best cookie recipes. I believe I have found the best oatmeal cookie recipe. Try it and let me know your thoughts and if you have a better one please share with me.
I found a blog called cravingcomfort.blogspot.com. She has a recipe box and that is where I found the recipe.
The recipe is as follows except I add butterscotch morsels instead of raisins.

Sugared Pecans, YUM!

So I have an all time favored recipe at the holidays. It is so easy and fast. I am thankful to an old friend of mine that share it with me years ago.
It is Sugared Pecans.
Here is the recipe

Dump
2 1/4 cups of pecans