Gluten Free Meat Pie

Well today was a first for me in baking a gluten free meat pie!

First off I found a fantastic recipe by Presidents Choice online
http://www.presidentschoice.ca/en_CA/recipes/recipeslisting/chicken-pot-pie.html
and followed the shopping ingredients almost to a T and then I went home and made sure I used all glass and metal bowls since my wife has celiacs disease and any plastic could be contaminated. I then simply prepped my glass table for baking and rolling out the dough and voila, things were a go.

I mixed all ingredients in their proper order and prepared the dough for rolling. The best advice was to put the dough in a ziplock bag and place it in the freezer for 20 min and boy did that help for rolling once I prepped the table with gf flower. I laid the dough on the table (with the powder) and needed it by hand (next time it’s with a new glass rolling pin, umm actually a wine bottle) then I took the slightly flattened dough and shaped the bottom part of the pie on the glass pie plate and filled it with my precooked lean pork and mixed veggies. When I filled the meat pie I added a pinch of sea salt to taste and then placed the top layer of dough on top and poked holes for the steam.

Prepped the table for rolling

Placed Dough On Table

Here Is My Finished Meat Pie

Below are some of the ingredients...

Next time I will do a step by step tutorial on how I made this

delicious meat pie!

This time was just a run through and a taste test to see how well it would come out. My wife said it was the best!

Making Something New

One of my favourite things to do when cooking is making something new with whatever is in the kitchen, just going off of what I have in the fridge and making a great soup! The challenge I always have is making something that is gluten free because my wife has celiacs disease and it's a serious issue and so no gluten can touch the ingredients or contaminate anything pertaining to the recipe in any degree, not even the cutting board or the utensils. Today I'm making a beef stew and right off the bat I'm going to add water and salt to taste, I find that tasting the saltiness of a stew before adding the main ingredients is a fantastic way to set the rest up for a home run in a tasty meal!

After setting up the taste of the soup base then I progress to adding a teaspoon of garlic powder (or to taste) and then I grind some pepper (depends on how much pepper your family likes) then I throw in fried onions and six small potatoes chopped up into halves and I throw in half a cup of gluten free wild rice and a cup of chopped baby organic carrots and one stem of rosemary. After all that is done I do two swirls of gluten free mustard and then throw in two handfuls of chopped stew beef (preferably organic) then I let it stew for a few hours on minimum. After two hours you have yourself the most amazing stew!