Customer Reviews

Pot Pies: Forty Savory Suppers

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Though I found this cookbook interesting, there were many contradictions and areas where it lacked. Mrs. Ojakangas talks about pot pies being international yet the majority of her recipes had a French flair to them. Personally, these are recipes I'd expect in Bon Appetit, they are not your everyday family fare. Many recipes require a large number of ingredients. Many you will be hard pressed to find in your local store.

I did find it a bit difficult to prepare many of her recipes after coming home from work. Though it can be done, it does mean eating late in some cases. If you're short on time, wait to try most of these recipes on the weekend.

Though I can't see myself picking up this cookbook often, these are recipes that are great for casual company, brunches, and garden parties. If you like European home-style cuisine, you'll enjoy this cookbook. If you are looking for simple meat and potato recipes, move on.

This is a satisfying collection of 40 savory pies, some single crust and some double. The author includes 6 pie crust recipes at the back of the book, and she tells you which to use in each recipe (of course, if you wanted to use purchased pie crust instead, who's to know, but her pie crust recipes are excellent, especially the lemon pastry).

The book provides a nice assortment of meat pies; cheese, egg, and vegetable pies; and chicken, turkey, and seafood pies. Each pie I've made has been delicious, and they also look attractive. Instructions are very clear, and none of the recipes are too complicated for the average home cook.

This spring I made the Asparagus Tart, which was luscious and beautiful, My family enjoyed the Turkey Pie with a Corn Bread Crust, and the Pork Pot Pie with Peppered Corn Bread Crust, as a well as a Picnic Pie that had a wonderful, rustic fireside appeal--and tasted great. This is hearty comfort food. Also, we really enjoyed the Pizza Pot Pie, which was time-consuming but as my 9-year-old son proclaimed, "worth every minute." A similar dish worth making is the Rustic Deep-Dish Pizza.

There's something here for everybody. I highly recommend this charming little book.

The Chicken Pie with Roasted Peppers has become a perennial favorite in our house when the weather turns nippy. Good, solid, warm-your-insides recipes, not too fancy, not too hard to do in a hour.

I loved this cookbook. Originally I received it as a stocking stuffer and, after moving it was lost .... until I located it on Amazon.

The recipes are wonderful and the different crusts allow you to be creative as well. I enjoy the Moroccan pie using turkey. It's the best use I've ever found for Thanksgiving leftovers.

Though the recipes in here are fine, this isn't the cookbook I was looking for. It is one of those small little books that sell on the bargain table at Barnes & Noble, not in the cookbook section.

If I had expected a small cheap booklet, I'd probably be happy. The recipes are well written and sound good. However, I was expecting a cookBOOK.

And everyone should taste the dill, havarti, shrimp and roasted pepper pot pie. I've given this book and a pie as a gift more times than I can remember. People ask me to make recipes from this book. Yum, yum yummy!