Pot Pies, Pizza Sauce & Apples - Oh my...

Another weekend spent cooking, mixing and freezing!  My sister, Leah June and I made pot pies:  She cooked the chicken overnight in a crock-pot.

Then we shredded the chicken and diced carrots, celery and onions and cooked them in butter

We used the Pioneer Woman's Pot Pie recipe which we timed 10 times for the approx.14 cups of chicken, after veggies cooked about 5 minutes or so then we added the chicken and chicken broth.

After this we added the seasonings; which called for a herb called Turmeric - neither one of us had ever used this and found out it is a cousin to ginger and used in Indian and Asian cooking - who knew?  Anyways, we put the pot pie mixture in foil containers with lids - I found these at Good Cents.  We added a bag of frozen peas just before we put the mixture into the containers.

top with a pie crust

and put a lid on them.  We made 24, cooked one that we split - it was very good but for me the next time I make this recipe I will leave out the Thyme - too strong a flavor for my taste buds.

Leah June and I put them in the freezer and tomorrow night I will be vacuum sealing them (I hope) - have to see if the Seal-a-meal crushes them when pulling out the air...will have to use the gentle cycle and not normal one.  I will post how that goes later...

Onto our pizza sauce:

okay, my other sister, Sandi - years and years ago gave us a yeast pizza dough recipe which all of us have used since then to make homemade pizzas. Now we find out she has been holding out on us with a sauce recipe - and it smells so Italian, rich and thick!  I mean this sauce was good enough to eat without the pizza!  Contact me if you want the recipe and I will send it to you but remember my sister Sandi found it first.  We 10 times the amounts and got 10 servings of the sauce - enough for 1 large pizza or 2 individual pizzas with lots of sauce

Oh, and of course smelling so good - we made individual pizzas for ourselves for lunch.

Leah June's has the olives and mine doesn't, and you can see who likes theirs more spicy.

Now onto the apples.  Leah June and I went to an orchard and bought Melrose apples.  We would have picked them ourselves but it was raining and muddy.  These apples are crisp, juicy and a little tart.  We bought 1/2 bushel to get apples into the freezer for pies, applesauce, cakes, etc.  I have a peeler, corer, slicing machine for apples.

it does all 3 things simultaneously...then I would cut it in half and separate the slices

and then we measured out approx. 5 cups of sliced apples to a bag for the freezer and we got 11 bags.

of course we vacuum sealed them too!  I have enough frozen meals to last for a long while and all I will need to add is sides and/or salads.  God has blessed me greatly!  He is good all the time! 

My sister Leah June and I have cooked and frozen numerous amounts of food over the last few months.  Getting together makes doing this fun and not so boring, then to be able to divide our work among ourselves just makes it that much better.  You never know what we will be getting ourselves into next...leave me a message and if you want to be notified of my next posting sign up as a follower.  Until next time I pray God blesses you richly.