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Thread #174305 Message #4230247
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
16-Oct-25 - 06:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: Things to put in a stew
Subject: RE: BS: Things to put in a stew
In cooler months I make a chicken stew that is basically the filling for chicken pot pies. Chicken diced in big pieces, onion, celery, carrots, potatoes, oregano, ground black pepper, and then add homemade chicken stock. Once it is near finished add frozen green peas, and thicken it with water and flour (I am able to accomplish the same thing now with a King Arthur brand Measure for Measure gluten free flour).
It's a lot of work to make a crust and bake the chicken filling in it to make pot pies, so I used a shortcut (back when the kids were little and thought the plain stew wasn't interesting) of making pie crust and cutting out shapes with cookie cutters, holiday shapes and others. Bake those and serve them on a plate next to a large bowl of the stew. The first time I did this, they wanted to just eat the crust, but I pointed out they had to crumble them on bowls of the stew, and they were ok with that.