Chicken Pie

Chicken pies...yummylicious especially if one makes it from scratch.  Pies tend to be savory, with a top and bottom flaky crust with meat filling (chicken, pork, beef, lamb, etc), mixed veggies and gravy. As I had leftover cream of mushroom, I decided to bake a pie.  I made my puff pastry first and left it in the fridge while I cooked the fillings and allow it too cool. Roll out a piece of pastry for the base and line your pie tin. Trim the pastry off around the edge of the tin. Add in the fillings and press it down with a fork. Cover the pie with another rolled out piece of pastry and tuck the edges to seal it. You can be really creative here. I am just plain lazy...ha!ha! I baked it for 30 mins at 180 degrees C.  Here's a photo of my chicken pie.

This is so good with earl gray tea.....

Spring Rolls (Popiah)

It has been awhile since we last made popiah (spring rolls). Its a tedious job....firstly, we have to handmake the skin for the popiah. Then, we have to make the fillings so that we can add it in before we roll it and gobble it up.  I for one prefers the floured popiah skin. I know that my cousins prefer to make the egg popiah skin. To each, its own...as my Grandaunt will say.  My Caucasians friends call it the Asian Crepes. Sometimes, we will have a popiah party and it is just awesome! Anyway, my other half helped me to handmake the popiah skin. He got the hang of twisting the ball of flour mix into a ball and with a twirl, coat the non-stick pan with a thin layer of the flour mix.

We also made the filling for our popiah. We had bamboo shoots, mangkuang (turnips), taugeh (beanshoots), prawns, lettuce, eggs, tofu, etc. One can get really creative here. Once, we had crabmeat in it too. So, how do we assemble our popiah?
Skin
Brush skin with hoisin, sweet sauce and chilli sauce.
Lay a piece of lettuce on top of the sauced skin.
Add a spoon or two of the bamboo shoots & mangkuang filling.
Sprinkle on top some eggs, tofu bits, prawns, etc
When you are satisfied with your fillings, wrap the popiah up.

Here's a photo of my popiah and the popiah skin.

My other half decided to be creative and created bacon rolls (adapted from peking duck rolls).  We did not have any peking duck, so we decided to substitute the duck with bacon.  Verdict....pretty nice!!! Tadaa...a new creation...ha!ha! Here's a photo of our Bacon Rolls.