Chicken pie

What I did on my holidays, with the leftover roast chicken. Chicken, leeks, mushrooms, cream and a little chopped gammon. Then the sliced potato topping as for the turkey pie - a new idea, so I'm testing it out a lot. That's some cubed roast celeriac with it, and buttered brussels sprouts of course; you can't have too many brussels sprouts, in my book.

The Christmas turkey this year was a very good one. Free range of course, organic, heritage breed, and hung for three weeks. Even so, I have to say I prefer chicken. I like the creaminess of it, and the mellowness. By the way, that chicken made five human meals and a couple of feline. This was a free range bird - I wouldn't buy one that wasn't - but even so that worked out at not much more than £1 a head. Pretty good going.