I’m baking my first chicken pot pie, or rather, the first pie in my life. I used the Pillsbury pie crusts that I bought from my first artist’s date at the 99-cent store. I cut up two chicken breasts; added mushrooms, peas, a carrot, onions; and then separately a broth, flour, butter and milk mixture.

It was a lot of fun, and I was doing something that I never imagined myself doing. For example, separating the yolk from the white with my hand, like I’d seen it done on tv, and then painting the whites on the pie crusts so that they won’t come out soggy. I’m still waiting for them to bake in the oven. We’ll see how they turn out.