Basketball, Chicken Pot Pie, and a Pastry Cutter

There is nothing that I enjoy more than taking

my nephew food to enjoy (with his Dad-my brother) after his basketball games.

This season I am off to a late start, but tomorrow night I am making up for lost time.


The absolute most fun of all is taking the unexpected.

Last year for one game it was an entire spiral sliced ham.


Tomorrow night I am taking

Pioneer Woman’s Chicken Pot Pie

(which is covered with her Perfect Pie Crust Recipe)


Two bags of Sister Schubert rolls
with two sticks of real butter


and

a pecan pie from Sweet and Tasty Bakery in McAllen.


I want to knock his socks off.


He knocks mine off every time I watch him play.


I want him to think,

“That crazy Aunt Laura brought a huge chicken pot pie to a basketball game.”


That makes me smile.


To ensure the pie crust is flaky and tastes delicious,

I am using my mother’s cobalt blue pyrex mixing bowl

and her pastry cutter.

 
Even if it is less than perfect,

it won’t matter.


Aside from the fact that you

could wrap pastry dough around a rock and my family would line up for a piece,

this is all about love

and the quiet way this young man always says,

“Thanks Aunt Laura.”