Buffalo Chicken Empanadas/Pies

Premade biscuits or pie crust or crescent rolls, 

Spread dough into 4-5" circles (or make as one casserole)

Mix:

1 Cup shredded chicken, cooked

2 oz cream cheese, softened

¼ Cup ranch dressing (liquid)

2 Tablespoonss Frank's hot sauce

½ Cup shredded cheese

egg whites for brushing

Fill each dough and cook to package directions

 

Apple Pie with Crumb topping

1  premade pie crust
6  C thinly sliced green apples
¾ C sugar
2  T flour
½  t cinnamon
1/8 t nutmeg
¼  C dried cranberries - optional

Crumb topping:
½ C flour
½ C packed brown sugar
3  T butter, cut up

Place crust in 9" pie dish
In a large bowl combine all ingredients.
Pour into pie crust.

In another bowl combine crumb topping ingredients and mash by hand to combine.
Drop by handfulls onto pie mixture.
Cover with foil and tear out center so just the edges have foil.

Bake at 375° for 40 minutes, remove foil and bake an additonal 20 minutes.

Chicken Pot Pie

2 chicken breast with skin and bones

4 small potatoes

8 baby carrots or 1 carrot

3 C chicken broth

½ medium onion

3 T butter

3 T flour

1 egg (scramble and add water = wash)

Seasonings salt (I prefer Tony Chachares)

2 pie crusts

Bake 2 chicken breasts with skin and bones, sprinkled with Tony's for 30-40 minutes. Let cool, discard skin and bones and chop into bite sized pieces.

Meanwhile:

Peel and chop potatoes and carrots into bite size pieces, boil until fork tender, drain.

Finely chop onion. 

Place butter in pan with onion and cook until translucent. Add flour to make rouxe...add chicken broth, bring to a boil stirring continuously until gravy coats the back of a spoon. Add chicen, potatoes and carrots, and Tony's.

Unroll two store bought pie crust, cut into ¼'s. Using ramekins (small bowls) press 1 piece of crust into bottom add chicken mix and cover with another piece of crust. Squish to make it fit. Cut 3 slits across top of crusts. Brush tops of pies with egg wash and sprinkle course salt on top.

Bake at 350° for 20 minutes or until golden brown.

Pumpkin Cream Cheese Pie

Mix together
 2 (8oz) cream cheese
½ C pumpkin (not pumpkin pie mix)
½ C sugar
½ t. vanilla
1 t. pumpkin pie spice 
2 eggs 


For crust:
1 pkg. graham crackers, crushed
½ C butter (margarine) melted
Pour melted butter into pie pan, cover with crushed graham crackers.
Pour mix into crust.


Bake at 350°  40 minutes.
Refrigerate 4 hours.