Smoked Turkey Pot Pie Recipe Amps Up Your Thanksgiving Leftovers

Method1) Make the crust. Follow the recipe for my wife's all purpose pie crust. Put it in the refrigerator and chill it for at least an hour.2) Make the filling. Melt the butter over medium high heat in a saucepan. Add the mushrooms and onions, and cook until the onions are soft and transluscent, about 5 minutes. Add the veggies and cook until they are soft, about 10 minutes. Add the turkey, herb mix, and water and cook until warm. Turn to the lowest setting. Don't add the apples yet. Taste the filling, and add more salt, pepper, or herbs as you feel are needed.3) For the gravy. While the filling is cooking, melt the butter in a small sauce pan over a medium heat. Add the flower a little at a time and whisk it in thoroughly so there are no lumps. Keep whisking until the mixture, called a roux, turns amber, but not brown. A roux adds flavor and complexity, and thickens the gravy. Turn the heat to high and immediately begin adding the turkey stock in a steady stream, whisking all the while so the roux dissolves. Whisk another minute or 3 until the sauce gets a bit thick, perhaps the thickness of latex wall paint.4) Preheat. Now's a good time to preheat the oven to 350°F.5) Filling the bowls. Divide the filling among the four bowls. Then divide the apple chunks among the four bowls. Then ladle the sauce evenly on top of the four bowls.6) Adding the crust. Take the dough and cut it into four equal parts. Spread about 3 tablespoons of flour on a work surface, rub some on your rolling pin, and roll each quarter into a 1/8" thick disk, rolling from the center outward. Place it on top of the bowl, and cut it off about 1/2" beyond the edge. You can either let it simply hang over the edge, or roll it back until it is resting on the edge and make it look nice by crimping it or mushing the tines of a fork down on it. If you want to get fancy you can paint the dough with a thin layer of milk or egg white to help it brown. Poke about 6 small holes in the surface with a fork or an ice pick to let the steam out.7) Bake. Put the pies on an upper rack where the crust can benefit from the heat reflected off the top of the oven and darken. Put aluminum foil or a pan on the rack below it to catch drips. Bake for about 40 minutes or until the crust is golden on the edges, and you see steam coming out from under it. The actual cooking time will vary depending on how deep your bowls are. Remove from the oven and serve, but don't let anybody take a bite for about 10 minutes or else they will scald the roof of their mouth and talk funny for at least a day.