Chicken Pot Pie with a Side Salad and Applesauce

If you don’t make it often, and it’s really good, you can serve it twice in a week.  That is the case for this Chicken Pot Pie recipe.  I usually try to reinvent a meal so it looks like a new meal and doesn’t appear to be “leftovers”. But there is no need with Chicken Pot Pie.  In fact, it seems better the second time around.

I warmed the pie and served it with a simple side salad – it doesn’t get any easier than that!  But because it was so easy, I offered choices for the side salad.  My son chose snap peas and hummus and my daughter chose a side salad with her new favorite lemon, mustard vinaigrette dressing  that she tasted in nutrition class at school.

Chicken Pot Pie with Side Salad of Sugar Snap Peas, Hummus and Applesauce - I forgot to take the picture and my son had already eaten the applesauce. I had to replenish which is why it looks a bit runny... Shocking that he ate the applesauce first...

The Verdict

10’s from everyone! …omitting the parsnip.  I recommend leaving it out if you are cooking for kids. I think its bitter after-bite might be too much for their overly sensitive taste buds.

“Food for Thought” – is a meal really “leftover” if you planned to serve it twice?

Chicken Pot Pie with a Side Salad