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Dinner tonight is chicken pot pie, recipe here. It's not the kind with crust, gravy, and peas. This is the OTHER chicken pot pie, the ethnic one. I expect it was responsible for generations of solid, stolid (judging from extant pictures, both adjectives apply in equal measure) Pennsylvania Dutch women of a general size, build, and disposition suitable for taking over the plowing if, y'know, the mule died. In typical PA-Dutch fashion, it has two starches and a protein. The two starches are boiled potatoes and boiled egg noodles (home made from scratch, do not roll your eyes, they only take half an hour or so). The protein is boiled chicken. (I do not, as it happens, actually eat the chicken part. I feed it to the cat.) Everything's white, so if you're one of those people who wants their food to all match, you're in luck. However, if you feed it to people who are not of the blood, they get irritated and ask where the vegetables are. (Silly rabbits.) It's a comfort food at my house, a wintertime comfort food. It makes me feel better when the days are getting shorter and the sky is grey and there are flurries.

There are people who could save me from the two-starch-one-protein nature of PA Dutch cooking. Karl, husband of cousin_sue, could rescue me with a fine recipe for squash soup. Yes, he could! Also, toanstation promised me a sag paneer recipe and that has not yet materialized in my inbox. People. Please. Think of the hips!

Until such time as they see fit to save me, though, I'll be over here with my big, floppy egg noodles and my boiled potatoes, both tasting of chickeny goodness.

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Meme from gwangi: Instructions: Put your music player on shuffle. Write down the first line of the first ten songs that come on. Make your LJ friends identify them (artist and title). Google is cheating.

I omitted songs where the first line was the title (lots of songs work that way!) and skipped duplicate artists (WinAmp has a sorry-ass shuffle) so that you'd get some variety.

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