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unpretentious fish pie


"Make anything with love, and BAM! It's a beautiful meal."
__Emeril Lagasse

"Who could ever weary of moonlit nights and well-cooked rice?"
__Japanese proverb

"What I love about cooking is that after a hard day,
there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron

"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
__Elsa Schiaparelli

"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work
in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child

"Cooking is a creation."
__Piero Selvaggio

"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare

"Cooking is like love.
It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
__Harriet Van Horne

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Unpretentious Fish Pie

Ingredients:
4 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons onion, minced
3 tablespoons celery, finely chopped
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon dry mustard
1/2 teaspoon dill weed
2 cups whole milk
2 cups cooked fish, flaked
1/2 cup mushrooms, chopped
2 medium sized white potatoes, thinly sliced
1/2 cup carrots, sliced
1/2 cup frozen peas
pastry for a 9 inch two-crust pie

Instructions:
1) Preheat oven to 375�.
2) In saucepan saut� the celery and onions in butter.
3) Stir in the flour, salt, pepper, dry mustard, and dill weed.
4) Gradually add the milk stirrin' continuously 'til thickened.
5) Add the fish, mushrooms, potatoes, carrots, and frozen peas.
6) Put the fish fillin' into the bottom crust.
7) Put on the top crust, carefully sealin' and flutin' the edges.
8) Cut slits to vent steam in the top crust.
9) Bake for approximately one hour.
10) Let stand for ten to fifteen minutes prior to servin'.

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