Yesterday I got to read about Ashley’s veggie pot pie, Katie’s homemade pie she made this weekend, and of course to torture myself more, I went back and drooled over Lorie’s Tasty Tuesdays pot pie. I left determined to be having pot pie in my belly that evening.
Of course by the end of the list (which also included a pie dish because I realized that yeah, we didn’t have that either), I was already overwhelmed and trying to figure out when in the world this evening I would find time to get the ingredients and make the darn thing. After I got home from work, Cale and I went to the gym and got done at eight. That left us one hour before we had to be home for Heroes. So we went to Whole Foods because I had read that they have freshly prepared dinners; maybe pot pie would be one of them? Nope.
We hopped right back into the car and went to Safeway to purchase the one pot pie that Cale could overlook as not homemade: Marie Callender’s. See what a good wife I am? I stuff my husband full of over one thousand calories right after we go to the gym. And I got myself a much healthier version.
The instructions are much easier for these. Instead of chopping vegetables and laying out pie crusts, you just preheat the oven to 400 degrees, put them on a cookie sheet, and then let them bake.
mmm warm gooey pot pie
You know I almost feel bad, especially after reading Ashley’s quest for all things homemade, but then I remember, hey it’s me. And I’m on my own quest to acknowledge that I cannot be perfect and do it all. And that now includes accepting the fact that I only enjoy slaving away in the kitchen every once and a while. Though I will say that I do want to make my own pot pie very very soon.
Just not on a weeknight.
