Pi Week - BRB Chicken Pot Pie

 

Pi day has passed for the year but Pi Week continues for us.  Today we have something savory since I'm still sugared up from yesterdays Lemonade Pie.  This one is quick and insanely easy to make, toss in the oven, and let it bake while you're doing dailies.  Even with an hour till raid time, you can easily bake it up and eat before first pull.  I call it BRB Chicken Pot Pie...

Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Total Time: 40 Minutes
Skill Needed: Apprentice

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Cooked Chicken 
• 1  2/3 cups Frozen Vegetable, thawed 
• 1  can Cream of Chicken Soup
• 1 cup Bisquick
• 1/2 cup Milk
• 1 Egg 

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Chop chicken into bite size pieces.
3. Mix chicken, vegetables, and cream of chicken soup and spread into bottom of a non-greased 9in round glass pie pan.
4. Mix Bisquick, milk, and Egg and pour over chicken mixture.
5. Bake 30 minutes until top is golden brown.

Pi Week - Lemonade Pie

Happy Pi Day Gamers!  As gamers we are often labeled as nerds or geeks.  For my MMO gamers out there this is especially true.  We spend hours plotting detailed strategies to kill pixilated baddies.  We do complex mathematical equations to optimize gear, spells, and xp.  There's a ton of geek in us and most of us embrace it.  Today is definitely a geek holiday & I say we enjoy it.   So my gamers, today sit back and think of all the people who see our hobbies as wasted hours in basements...  got a visual?  Good, now smile proudly because odds are they don't have a Pie to celebrate 3.14 since nongeeks usually don't even know it's Pi Day.

Now let's cook up a terrific Lemonade Pie & bask in our geekdom.  This pie is so incredibly easy and man, I could eat the whole thing.  As a matter of fact, I need to type the recipe quick before school's out & the teenager hits the fridge.

Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Total Time: 24 hours
Skill Needed: Apprentice

Ingredients:

• 1 8oz Cool-Whip
• 1 6oz can Frozen Lemonade 
• 1 14oz can Sweetened Condensed Milk
• 1 6oz prepared Graham Cracker Crust

Directions:

1. Using a mixer, mix Cool-Whip, Lemonade and Condensed milk until Fluffy.
2. Pour into pie crust.
3. Refrigerate overnight or until Firm.
   

Pi Week - Proc'ing Orange Creamsicle Pie

3.14159265358979323846 Week continues!  Our second pie to honor Pi week is something a little sweet.  It's light, fluffy and if you're a fan of Orange Creamsicles... you're probably going to be a big fan of this one.  Be aware though, this recipe makes TWO pies!  Just buy 2 premade pie crusts and you're good to go.  Think of it as crafting something and it proc'ing & giving you 2 for you gamers out there.  Make one for raid night dessert & save the other to take to Work, School, a Family Gathering or your significant other.  Multitasking my friends...  You get a yummy pie AND you show off your mad cooking skills... Like a Boss!


Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Total Time: 3 hours
Skill Needed: Artisan

Ingredients:

• 8ox Cream Cheese, softened 
• 16oz Cool-Whip, thawed
• 1c Orange Juice 
• 1 4oz box Instant Vanilla Pudding 
• 1 3oz box Orange Flavor Gelatin (Jello)
• 2 6oz prepared Graham Cracker Crusts

Directions:

1. Soften cream cheese to room temperature a few hours before you make your pies.  Don't lay it out 30 minutes & think you're good to go, you're not.  Make sure it's super soft or, you'll have lumpy pies.
2. Blend cream cheese and Cool-Whip well.
3. Add Orange Juice and beat with a mixer until very creamy.
4. Stir in pudding.
5. Stir in Gelatin and blend well.
6. Add half the mixture to each pie crust & spread gently.
7. Chill 3 hours before serving!

Pi Week - Spicy Chicken Pie

It's almost 3.14, you know what that means?  It's PI WEEK here at the Hungry Gamer!  We are celebrating by conjuring some fantastic, quick and easy Pies.  To avoid the awful sugar high I'd be on from eating 5 sweet pies, I'm throwing in some savory ones too. 

Our first pie is a Spicy Chicken Pie.  No cooking a Boomkin for the Chicken!  This is super easy to make and is great as left overs too.


Prep Time: 10 Minutes
Total Time: 45min
Skill Needed: Apprentice

Ingredients:

• 2 cups Chicken, cooked
• 1/2 cup Onion, chopped
• 1 pkg Taco Seasoning
• 1 cup Bisquick
• 1 cup Milk
• 2 Eggs
• 1 cup Cheddar Cheese, shredded

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.  Grease bottom and sides of a 9 x 1 1/4 in pie pan.
2. Chop your cooked chicken.  Mix Chicken, Onions and Taco Seasoning.  Sprinkle into pie pan.
3. Stir Bisquick, Milk and Eggs until Blended.  Pour into pie pan.
4. Bake 30 - 35 minutes.  Add Cheddar Cheese  to top.  Bake another 1 to 2 minutes until cheese is melted.  Garnish with lettuce, tomatoes, or sour cream if desired.

Cheesy Chicken Spaghetti

I am not a spaghetti fan.  At 33 I still have nightmares of big plates full from my childhood.  The spaghetti sauce getting everywhere, the fat hunks of onions & peppers lurking in this mesh of slippery noodles that would never stay on my fork, and the infamous words "Spaghetti sauce is like ketchup!  You eat ketchup right?"  My 4yr old self would've gladly ate noodles covered in ketchup but not spaghetti.  Then my Mom finally triumphed by making "white spaghetti" and, while I'm still not a fan of any type of spaghetti, I can atleast live peacefully with it now.

"That's great April but has nothing to do with gaming!"  I know but I make that point to make this one.  Sometimes you just have to try to coexist with things you aren't a fan of.  I discovered something this week that bothers be...  the Looking For Raid system in WoW.  My guild killed the end boss from Cataclysm this week, Hooray!  Everyone was happy but the whole week seem to be missing the energy and excitement of past expansions.  I fear killing Deathwing weekly in pugs has taken away from the magic.  To me it's a tragedy but I'll coexist since the system does help my lowbies gear.  I do wish they would've left last boss inaccessible until all nerfs were over.  I think it would let the end boss stay a more satisfying kill.

For now Looking For Raid and Spaghetti will remain on equal ground with me.  Looking for raid isn't my favorite addition to WoW but could definitely be worse.  Spaghetti is bad to me but can be made better for the anti-spaghetti crowd.  If you're in that crowd, this is for you!  This isn't my Mom's White Spaghetti but it's an easy Crock-pot recipe you can meet the Spaghetti lovers halfway on. 


Prep Time: 20 Minutes
Total Time: 3hrs
Skill Needed: Apprentice

Ingredients:

• 16 oz Dry Spaghetti
• 1lb Velveeta Light Cheese
• 2 c Shredded Chicken, Cooked
• 1 can Cream of Chicken Soup
• 1 can Cream of Mushroom Soup
• 10 oz can Rotel Diced Tomatoes & Green Chilies
• 1/2 cup Water
• 1 Small Onion. Diced
• 1 Medium Green Pepper, Diced
• Salt and Pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Boil your Spaghetti Noodles as directed on package.  Drain excess water.
2. Spray Crock-Pot with non-stick spray.
3. Combine cooked Spaghetti & all other ingredients in Crock-Pot.  Stir until mixed thoroughly.
4. Cook on Low for 2-3 hours.
5. Stir before serving