Tiny lovely things and pie

 The chicken that kept on going, today became a star in chicken pot pie, first I've ever made, thanks for the prompt, Debra.

I had just enough yogurt for the pastry crust, and channeled my mom as I cut it to fit by rotating the pie dish in mid air on my fingertips while keeping the knife still.

I made the sauce using some juice from earlier chicken roasting, plus chicken broth I made last night,  now used with milk and flour 

The veggies are carrots, diced yellow potatoes, bok choy, and onions. I did remember chicken.

Here's the mise en scene, which a little lady who doesn't know theater terms, once corrected me to mise en place, which is a food term.  I was talking about the exciting moment when the curtain rises and you see the stage set, all ready for action!

Of which there was plenty, this being fairly labor intensive, what with pastry making and resting, and potato microwaving and veggie simmering and sauce making and onion frying and chicken dicing and pie assembling and baking..

Quite exciting. Amazing when it all came out together.  Also a lot of fun and quite a few dishes and tools in action.

This slice was a meal in itself, and the pastry worked out well, one of those all purpose kinds you can use for pasties or even bread rolls.

There was a bit of pastry left and some carrots, which are both in the freezer now for a future pasty or two, with additions.

Also extra sauce, which I can use partly as a white gravy for the pie, partly as the base for an upcoming cream of chicken soup, using the rest of the bones and the broth.

After all this I may be ready to cook something that isn't chicken-adjacent.

Back at the ranch, I did get a walk, temperature in the 50s, and spotted the first wildflower of the year. What the heck is it? It's microscopic. See thumb for scale.

They're dotted all over here, stems maybe a quarter inch long.

If you know, please enlighten me. My little Golden Books fell down on the job.

At home here's a little mantelscape, Cocktail Lady in the Palm Court

So that's Chez Boud today, lovely day.

I think I'll sit down and read now.

Happy evening everyone, I hope you get a chance to sit a minute and breathe.