I made two kinds of mini pies for our lunches - first, I had some ground goat. I found it at the local Halal market, she ground it fresh for me. Since she barely spoke English, I got 4 lbs of it. No other option. Good thing I like goat.
If you have never tried goat, you should. It's a lot like lamb, but leaner. And so delicious.
So, The Hubby cooked up some of the goat with caramelized onion, garlic powder, and salt and pepper. I mixed in some baked potatoes and green peas along with crumbled feta cheese. There's a mini pie filling for you!
I used my lovely mini pie maker (ok, fine, mini cupcake maker... but in my mind, it's for pie!) and store-bought crust (no time for homemade), and made my mini pot pi pies. I baked them for 14 minutes.
I also decided to make some mini banana cream pudding pies (I had banana cream pudding mix). For this, I pressed the pie dough into the pie maker, and filled with dry beans so that it wouldn't puff up. Once they were cool, I filled them with pudding pie filling. Super easy.
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| My lunch |
To finish out the lunches, The Girl and I have clementines. I have some veggie chips and apple slices.
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| The Girl's Lunch |
She has a bunny shaped hard boiled egg and a couple Easter M&M's in an egg. Her birthday is coming up.. so she gets a little splurge. For snack, she has a Chobani Champions yogurt.
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| The Hubby's Lunch |
The Hubby has Pi Pot Pies, a banana cream pi pie, apple slices, raisins, and cucumber.
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| The Boy's Lunch: Apple slices: 8g, Pi Pot Pies: 10g each, veggie chips: 4g, Banana Cream Pi Pie: 20g |
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So stinkin' cute! I just started liking lamb after eating some at a Eritrean restaurant a few times. Curious where on earth I'd get goat meat around here (Centralia, WA), lol.
ReplyDeleteYummy Pi pies!!! :D So adorable!
ReplyDeleteThose Pis look so good!
ReplyDeleteYum!!! Now I need pi
ReplyDeleteThey all looks great! I LOVE the dry bean tip for the mini crusts, too. SOOOOOO going to keep that in the back of my mind!
ReplyDeleteInteresting! I have never tried goat, but there is a Moroccan restaurant in Portland which makes a super tasty lamb. Now I'm going to have to see if I can find a source for goat meat here and give it a try!
ReplyDeleteA whole family of sweet & savoury pies, how geekilicious! And how clever with the beans as mini-pie weights!
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