Hello!

This is Tea Fiend, known from now on as T.F.
I'm a college student, who's been forced to learn how to cook in her first year because I preferred to live in the luxury of an apartment and not be subject to horrible dorm food. Unfortunately, this means that I'm subject to eating my OWN horribly cooked food, which is sometimes unhappy and leads to overeating when I'm invited to dinner. I thought that perhaps if I recorded my meals, I'd be able to:
1. Know what I eat
2. Know what does and doesn't work
3. Lose weight!
Plus, it's fun, and I've always envied the writers of food blogs.

So my first adventure on this food blog? TURKEY POT PIE.
Yes, it's no coincidence that this pot pie was made after Thanksgiving! I took home leftovers last night (which was marvellously tummy-hurting from eating and laughing).
I took the recipe from the KQED Food Blog and, uh, roughly modified it according to what I have in my cabinets and refrigerator.

I chopped up two stalks of celery, 1 green onion, and some broccoli. I stir fried those veggies with peas and turkey (with some stuffing). The first mistake I made while cutting up veggies was leaving the pan to heat up on the stove. I forgot that you need a fan and a window nearby and NOT be in a two feet square kitchen space to stir fry the Chinese way. Once I put the butter in, the kitchen evaporated into smoke. Uh-oh. Having done this before (hence, one of the reasons I'm forcing myself to write this blog so I actually LEARN from my mistakes), I rushed to open the balcony door and fan the smoke detector. I don't feel so horrible, though, for having made that mistake, because the expert Taiwanese upperclassmen that live down the hallway did the same thing.

After that, I made the sauce from 1/9 of a cup Bisquick flour (I was modifying like crazy...), and eyeballed how much chicken stock and milk I put in. I made it in the same pan I made the innards of the pie in (PIE INNARDS! heh heh heh...), so there was a thick brown crust on the bottom of the pie. I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be like that or not, because I was pretty sure the turkey didn't have THAT much juice in it, but I just went ahead and stirred the brown stuff into my sauce. I poured everything into a medium-sized ramekin and put mashed potatoes on top. Everything then went into the toaster oven and now I'm waiting for it to be done, even though it's only 10:15 in the morning. I tend to get lunch and breakfast confused when I wake up late, so I'll just have a huge brunch and eat vegetables for dinner.

Thinking about it right now, this blog isn't working as well as it should be. I'm screwing up mealtimes again...

Oh well! I will persevere!
-T.F.