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Last night I made 3 dishes!

I first prepped the ingredients for a Slow Cooker Casserole. Sliced some spuds, some bacon and some pumpkin. Then browned the bacon with chicken thigh pieces which had not really thawed very well. So I browned them very slowly. Piled it all into the slow cooker, and set it to high for 4 hours.

In the mean time I mixed 500g of ricotta cheese with 4 eggs and a handful of shredded tasty cheese, salt & pepper. I put this back in the fridge while the frozen puff pastry thawed. I took out 2 sheets thinking my pie dish needed the 2, only to find it did not, once I had lined it with one.  I had had the oven pre-heating, so once the pie plate had been lined with the pastry and filled with the cheese mixture, into the oven it went.  Now I've cooked this dish before, all with varying degree's of success, as it was a verbal recipe given to me by my Nana over 20 years ago. I have finally sussed out the correct timing for a perfectly cooked cheese pie! I was sooo happy!

While the cheese pie was cooking for the initial 25 minutes, I cut the 2nd piece of puff pastry into for and got out my silicone muffin tin and lined 4 of the holes with the pastry.  I also had some bacon left over and so used my scissors to cut up 2 of the 4 remaining pieces.  I placed the bacon in the bottom of the 4 pastry holes, then cracked and egg directly into each one.  Topped it off with some shredded cheese and placed it into the oven with the cheese pie .

So I baked the cheese pie for a total of 45 mins, 10 of which it shared the oven with the egg & bacon pastry muffins.  I then cooked the pastry muffins for another 15-20 minutes to make sure the egg & the pastry were cooked through.  Surprisingly the egg wasn't over cooked and didn't develop that green line around the yolk.  I know this cos I had to test one. ;D I also had a slice of the cheese pie with some fresh tomato & lettuce for dinner.

So now I have chicken casserole for dinner for the next couple of nights with added vege's, and cheese pie for lunch, and pastry muffins for breakky!

Now to face all the washing up!!!!  NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! LOL!