Izzy went to the vet as her follow-up visit from the previous weekend that I forgot to blog about. Last weekend she was squinting her eye and it looked swollen. After watching it for a few hours and it appeared to get worse we took her in. The vet took a look and found out one of her eyelashes was growing on the inside of her eyelid and it was scratching her eye. Ouch! The vet took care of it by plucking out her eyelash. I couldn't watch at all as it was all just too crazy for me. I was just surprised that Izzy sat still long enough for the vet to do her business. Then we (aka Andy) had to put drops in her eye all week and come back for a check up on Saturday. When we went on Saturday Izzy was still squinting a bit. The Vet took a look and even put the stain in her eye and everything looked great. She said to stop using the drops because maybe that is what was bothering her and her eye was all healed. I think Izzy was just milking the extra "babiness" we were giving her...if that is even possible. Here she is at the vet's office sitting by daddy's feet right after she completed her favorite activity...taking her temperature!
For the cleaning portion of our weekend this entailed cleaning out the third bedroom. This bedroom was the room that housed all of our wedding and bridal shower gifts that we have received. This was the perfect spot to put everything many months ago until everything began to pile up and look like a disaster. So much like a disaster that I dreaded going in there and sorting through everything...until yesterday. I tackled the hot mess in the third bedroom and it was actually kind of exciting. It was kind of like receiving the wedding gifts all over again. We were able to find places for at least half the items stock piled in there and the other half got neatly stacked in the corner of the bedroom until we complete our storage area for the garage. The items that will be neatly stored away are the entertaining dishes that we love, but don't use on a regular basis so they will go in the future closets we plan on putting in the garage. The closets will provide easy access to everything we need when we need it. Sorry, but there are no pics of the hot mess in the bedroom. No before and after because it was just too embarrassing.
On to Andy's fabulous Filo Chicken Pie that he made from the chicken cookbook. This took a lot of work...I know...I watched Andy do it. It seemed like it took all night, but it was very yummy!
Your Ingredients
Whole chicken
1 large onion halved and 3 large onions chopped finely (Andy only used half an onion since he knows I don't care for them)
1 Carrot, slicked thickly
Zest of 1 lemon
1 bay leaf
10 peppercorns
5 1/2 oz butter
1/2 cup of flour
2/3 cup of milk (Andy used Lactaid for my stomach)
Salt and pepper
1/3 cup romano cheese
3 eggs, beaten
8 oz filo pastry
Directions
1. Put the chicken, halved onion, carrot, celery, lemon zest, bay leaf and peppercorns in a large pot with water and bring to a boil. Simmer for an hour or until the chicken is cooked.
2. Take the chicken out and let it cool. Bring the stock to a boil until reduced to 2 1/2 cups then strain and keep the stock. Chop up the chicken into bite-size pieces and throw away the skin and bones.
3. Fry up the chopped onions in 2 oz of butter until they are soft. Add the flour and cook gently. Slowly stir in the stock and the milk. Bring to a boil while you are stirring constantly and then simmer for 2 minutes until it is thick and smooth. Remove from heat and add the chicken and the season. Let cool and then stir in the cheese and eggs.
4. Melt the remaining butter and use a tad to grease a baking pan. Cut the pastry sheets in half width wise. Line the pan with one sheet of pastry and brush it with melted butter. Repeat with half of the pastry sheets. Spread the filling over the pasty, then top with the remaining pastry sheets, brushing each with butter and tucking down the edges.
5. Bake for 50 minutes at 375 degrees.
This was pretty good and it was made in our C&B baking dish that we received for our wedding...that I pulled out of the disaster of a bedroom. I did not make this meal mainly because it seemed like it would be hard so I left it to Andy to make such a fabulous and complicated meal. Ok, maybe it wasn't complicated, but it just seemed to take forever. Kudos to him though for thinking of his wife while making dinner. He did half the onions the recipe called for and he used my lactaid milk instead of his own. I didn't even have to ask him. What a sweetie!
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