Experimental Meal Night

I love reading recipes and trying out new things in the kitchen.  My favorite pastime is to read recipes, it's my hobby! Last night it was about time for an experimental meal. It's been awhile since I've tried an experimental meal. I'm constantly changing up marinades or doing slight variations of things but this meal was to be a completely new thing for us. The dinner was a chicken and broccoli pie!

Now both of us do not care for chicken pot pies. For this meal the similarities between this pie and a chicken pot pie were only that it had chicken in the dish and "pie" in the title. I didn't follow the recipe exactly. Do I ever? I played with spices along with adding some extra veggies.  With a lot of recipes nowadays the cookbook provides you with an estimated prep time for the dish. I never get mine prepped within the provided time frame. Oh well!  It did take awhile to prep for the oven.

Basically the dish consisted of chicken, broccoli, onion, bell pepper, a little cheese to help hold it together and a very light bisquick crust. The bisquick crust was poured only on top unlike a real pie that has crust at the bottom and the top.  I was a little nervous to tell Brad what we were having for dinner, because it sounds kind of weird.  He responded well!  Saying he loves chicken and broccoli so it sounded alright to him.

We both decided it's a keeper.  I will however be playing with the recipe.  At the conclusion of the meal I was already brainstorming out loud about ways to improve the dish!  I'll be trying out a few of my ideas very soon.