Sand crunches beneath my feet. An old saloon is before me. Inside it’s cleaner than the saloons from the old Clint Eastwood westerns. Scent of pies fill the air. I take one home.
chicken pot pie
KFC
When I was a kid I had a choice of Pioneer Chicken, Picnic N Chicken, and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Pioneer Chicken had this crunchy and spicy chicken I loved when I wanted to be a rebel. Picnic N Chicken was like KFC original recipe except I thought it had a smoother flavor and maybe fried […]
Streetcar Merchants of Fried Chicken, Doughnuts & Coffee – La Jolla
Hot. Burning. Tongue on fire. Face and chest sweating in below 70F weather. I do my best to avoid spicy food but this innocuous looking chicken pot pie did me in. Lucky I had some emergency candy on my desk to save myself. There was a lot to like about this pie. Crust was crunchy […]
Pop Pie
When I was a kid I was given the choice of reheating frozen diners for my own dinner. I usually alternated between chicken or turkey pot pies made by Banquet or Swanson. When I baked them correctly the top crust had some crunch and the filling didn’t bubble up and dry out. Flavor was mostly […]
Langan’s Pub – New York
An Irish pub in Portland had my favorite mushroom sauce and steak. It was a mixture of wild mushrooms and enhanced the flavor of a ribeye steak that was already delicious from the char, salt & pepper. An Irish pub in Palm Springs had my favorite chicken pot pie. Crust was crunchy and the flavor […]
San Diego Chicken Pie Shop
Green grass around us Mountain trails for us to trek Blue sky above us. Phel Steinmetz introduced me to the Chicken Pie Shop back when this place was located on the corner of 5th Av. in Hillcrest. We were on a field trip to apply the photo techniques we learned in the classroom. This was […]
Tavern, Coronado, CA
The Parliament of Trees: “Flesh… speaks… wood… listens.” Alan Moore – The Swamp Thing