I love pot pies! Those little cheap Banquet or Swanson pies (which came in chicken, beef, or turkey) were a favorite of mine growing up, and they were dirt cheap, so Mom would sometimes buy me one, because she never made meat/savory pies at home, only fruit pies.
When we moved to the UK, that’s like an em-
PIE-r of meat pies, and it was like I’d landed in pie heaven…so many kinds of meat pies, and some served hot, some room temp for picnics, some with whole eggs in them, just a master class in pie possibilities.
My favorite is probably some variation of steak and ale pie, though a chicken-leek-ham pie is good, too. I usually have one of each (at least) when we’re there.
Pies, for me, have to have a top crust. The crust is just as good as the filling. There’s a woman I watch on YT, she makes a lot of pies, and she makes the filling and bakes a sheet of puff pastry separately, then just puts the naked filling on the plate, and tosses a square of puff pastry on it then, and it makes me cry a little every time, because she seems like such a nice person otherwise, but that wouldn’t do it for me.
I do make a tourtiere from time to time - way overdue for that.
