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Cranberry Pecan Chicken Salad

(Recipe from bakedbroiledandbasted.com)

Ingredients

3 cups shredded chicken

1/2 cup dried cranberries

1/2 cup chopped Celery

1/2 cup chopped pecans

1 1/2 cup mayo

2 tablespoons of lemon juice

2 tablespoons sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

Instructions

1.Place shredded chicken in a mixing bowl along with the cranberries, pecans and celery and toss together

2.Pour mayo mixture over the chicken mixture and mix well

3.Cover and refrigerate cover a few hours before serving

4.Serve on wrap with lettuce, on a croissant , bread or with crackers

Cheese Onion and Potato Pie

(Recipe from onlycrumbsremain.com)

Ingredients

For the Filling

200 g (7oz) potatoes (about 2 medium potatoes)

1-2 red onions

knob of butter

2 tsp olive or vegetable oil

175 g (6oz) Lancashire or mozzarella cheese

Salt

For the Pastry

225 g (8oz) plain flour plus extra for rolling

50 g (2oz) butter chilled cut into cubes

50 g (2oz) lard or white vegetable fat cut into cubes

3 – 5 tbsp cold water

milk for glazing

Instructions

1.Peel 200g (7oz) potatoes and cut into 2cm (1in) cubes. Place in a saucepan and cover with water. Bring to the boil. Salt the water and cook the potatoes gently for about 10 minutes or until there is no resistance when a sharp knife is inserted. Strain the potatoes and set aside to cool.

2.Thinly slice 1-2 red onions. Place a knob of butter and 2 tsp of oil into the frying pan and set over a medium heat. Add the sliced onions to the frying pan. Reduce the heat and cook the onions slowly until translucent and soft about 15 minutes. Once cooked tip onto a sheet of kitchen roll to absorb the excess oil

3.Meanwhile, make the pastry. Place the 225g (8oz)flour, 50g (2oz) butter and 50g (2oz) lard or vegetable fat into bowl and rub in the fat with your finger tips until the mixture resembles bread crumbs

4.Make a well in the center and add the water, a little at a time. Using a rounded pallet knife, or similar, cut through the mixture to make a dough. You may not need all of the water. Bring the dough together with your hands and shape into a ball and flatten into a disc. Wrap in cling film and place into the fridge for 30 minutes to chill.

5.Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C)

6.Cut the pastry into two equal pieces and roll out one piece and use to line the base of the pie plate. Roll out the remaining pastry for the pie lid.

7.Combine the cooked potatoes with the onions and season to taste with salt and pepper.

8.Grate 175g (6oz) Lancashire cheese and place half of the grated cheese into the pastry case. Add the potato and onion mixture. Top with the remaining cheese.

9.Using a pastry brush, paint the edge of the pastry with a little milk. Use a rolling pin to lift the rolled out pastry and lay over the filled pie plate. gently press the edges together to seal and trim away the excess pastry. Brush the top with a little milk and cut a small slit in the middle to allow steam to escape

10.Bake the pie in the oven and bake for 30 – 35 minutes until the pastry is cooked through and a beautiful golden color. You may need to rotate the pie halfway through the bake. Remove from the oven once cooked and allow to cool for 5 minutes before cutting into it and serving

Time Stamps
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0:19 Planning my Garden
1:20 Chicken Salad Wraps
3:34 Spring Cleaning
5:37 Cheese and Onion Pie

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35 Comments

  1. Beautiful video as always 😌 It makes me feel so much better during the quarantine. Happy weekend to all of you ☕️🍃☀️

  2. Lovely as always especially still in red lockdown here in North bay Ontario, What do you use for cleaner in the brown spritzer bottle ? Thank you again.

  3. You are so lucky to have a garden! I try to fit everything in my small balcony. I am grateful to have that, but still a little bit jealous! 🙂 Your recipes look great and I like that you shared a few more spots around your home. I'm definitely trying the potato pie! The golden color of it is just perfect! ❤

  4. I am definitely making the cheese and onion pie! Looks delicious! Thanks for sharing as always. Your videos are such a beautiful respite in these mostly trying times.

  5. First of all I love Gavin, the music toward the end esp. , and how you put the detail into one meal, the way it used to be …hence slow living…so important, not just as a necessity in older days, but I see it as an art too, in present days… I am glad to see it here now, how you make it an event, an honorable event for the family…life in moments and events of home making …to me it is special , because it takes slow moments to create it… 💜 beautiful! 🙏

  6. Really beautiful video ❤️ My husband just bought me a pantry cabinet & I have been spring cleaning my kitchen cabinets. I am moving the majority of our dry food to the new pantry 🙂 He would love the onion & cheese pie!! He is crazy about onions & potatoes!! May have to try it!! ☺️

  7. So soothing as always. The cheese and onion pie you made looked so delicious 😋 and it’s going into my recipe book! Thank you for sharing 💛💐🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  8. Hello my darling friend💖! I swear you could make anything looking stunning!
    Oh how I love your vlogs! Yet another beautiful video🙏💖

  9. I recently found your channel and what a treat! It's beautiful filmed and edited and I really enjoy the whole concept of slow life.
    Thank you for sharing your garden plans and relaxing cleaning. It is nice to see little bit of everything. You are beautiful women in Christ 💖🙏😘

  10. What are you using for the cleaning spray and did you make it yourself? Thank you so much for your videos!

  11. THE HOLINESS OF THE ORDINARY
    It is in the Ordinariness of our Daily Tasks
    Done in the Beauty of Love and Humility
    Thus done daily in the Sweetness of Simplicity
    Render unto our Blessed LORD 
    Even as did JESUS' Blessed Mama Mary
    Wherein in doing so is Hidden the Treasure
    Found in the Beauty of Simplicity and Humility
    As Known and Shown in the Life of Mary
    She faithfully performing her daily tasks  
    Doing all she did for the LOVE of JESUS
    And for our Father's Honor and His Glory

  12. I say it again, your videos are just exquisite, the attention to details is flawless, the lighting, the contrast with the dark background, the type of letters you use, the music and the list goes on and on and on… I feel very blessed to have found your beautiful channel, specially because I’m a Christian and this a a very Christ oriented channel which I absolutely love and for that, I thank you. God bless you.

  13. This is such a relaxing and enjoyable video! Thank you so much for sharing 🤍
    This means so much to me as a student and new video creator. 🇵🇭❤️

  14. A lovely video, thank you! Could you write what you use to clean your wood with…in the spray bottle…I'd be very grateful. Have a wonerful day …. one year later as Spring Begins again~~the renewal of life.

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