Easy Chicken Pot Pie

Easy Chicken Pot Pie

1 can cream of chicken soup (condensed)
1 cup milk
3 cups shredded chicken
1pkg frozen mixed vegetables (peas, carrots, green beans, plus broccoli, cauliflower, etc)
1/2 tsp Thyme Leaves
Poultry Seasoning (to taste)
Ground Black Pepper

1 Can Refrigerator Biscuits
(If you're really feeling ambitious, mix up a batch of home-made buttermilk biscuits.)

Boil 2 chicken breasts for 20-25 minutes, then shred them. 
Stir-fry the frozen vegetables to make sure they are thawed and cooked before adding them to the pot pie.  

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix the soup and milk in a large bowl. Stir in sauteed veggies and chicken.  Add the Thyme, Poultry Seasoning, and Ground black pepper.  Stir and pour into a baking dish.  Top with the refrigerator biscuits.   Bake for 45 minutes or until hot.

Yummy on a cold winter's day.

Blueberry Butter in a Crock Pot

 

Blueberry Butter in a Crock Pot

At the December Craft Sale, I bought a jar of home-made blueberry butter for my husband.  Unfortunately, when I got home, it was dark, and I didn't see it sitting on the back seat.  I unpacked some other things, and the nearly frozen jar hit the driveway pavement and broke.  ;-(    Sigh!
So I decided to make good on my gift, and make my own batch of blueberry butter.  It was easier than than I thought it would be.  The hardest part was committing to spend $11+ on 2.5 pounds of frozen blueberries.  I have to say : It was worth it!

The Recipe
2.5 pounds frozen blueberries
1 cup white sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp cardamon
1/4 tsp ground cloves

1 lemon, zested
Juice of 1 Lemon

Pour the frozen blueberries into a crock pot.  Let them cook for 6 hours.  Stir every hour or so.  After the first 2 hours, I propped open the lid so the steam could escape and it could reduce to a proper fruit butter. 

In the last hour of cooking, I used a stick blender to puree the mixture, and smooth out the lumps.  Then I added the sugar, and spices.  You may need to add more sugar--not all blueberries are created equal.  This batch seemed sweet enough.

SO GOOD!  It tastes like mulled blueberry cider--but spreadable.  Now if we only had some buttermilk biscuits fresh from the oven!