Bacon Pie.

Ok, it's not a bacon pie. It's a chicken pot pie, made with a bacon fat crust. Yum. I wanted to make a chicken pot pie one day a couple of weeks ago when the heat had broken and we could actually turn the air off. I had all the ingredients-except butter for the crust. I checked out what type of fat I had on hand and I had a soup can full of rendered bacon fat in  my fridge. Turns out that 1cup of rendered bacon fat (frozen first, then chopped up and cut in with a pastry cutter) makes a pretty darn good pie crust.

Recipe? Simply swap out the butter for bacon fat. If you render it down and strain it, it will be free of the little specks and bits of bacon, like you see in my pie crust. But we're all bacon lovers here, so that's not an issue. I might cook the bottom crust first the next time I make this pie.

Step 2-make the chicken filling. This is a roux, made with chicken, a little onion, some peas, flour, chicken broth. Add your flour last, slowly, until it thickens. Throw in whatever veggies you'd like.

Put filling in crust, cover with top crust and bake. I baked this at 375 for almost 45 mins. Let stand before cutting.

Yum! This was goooood stuff. It fed us for one dinner and then lunch. Sadly, this is NOT something bryce can eat due to the flour in the crust. Still experimenting with a pie crust that is wheat/rye free. I'm hopeful I can come up with something for him.