Question about Ina Garten's chicken pot pie

[sake]

so I made this yesterday:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/in...

I only made tha filling, and froze it in 3 separate oven safe dishes. When we are ready to eat it, I'd like to make the crust. How do I cook it? Do I partially ( or fully ) defrost it. put the crust on and then cook? Or do I cook it completely frozen with the crust?

[eLizard]

next time you can freeze with the crust, and then bake the whole thing together from frozen....just like a frozen pot pie from the supermarket. this is my go-to pot pie recipe.

[c oliver]

And, sake, you may not know this but eLizard is known as "dough whisperer" to his friends :) Hi, e.

[eLizard]

ha! no pressure! hi yourself! oh, and i'm a girl, by the way! lol

[walker]

Funny!! She thought I was a guy, too!! (What do you think the percentage of females is on Home Cooking board? Bet it's high.)

[c oliver]

Yeah but, Walker, remember: I thought you were a young, gay guy! I was very specific in my own mind :) I feel like we might be surprised by the ratio. Still believe many more women than men, but I think there are more men than I would have thought originally. Plenty of references to wives and GFs. PS: I'm a "girl" also.

[walker]

Every time I think of this, it gives me a big laugh.

[gdaerin]

this is what I do, it's so easy and sooo good! the ultimate comfort food because it's super convenient!

[c oliver]

jfood uses frozen (well, actually thawed) puff pastry, bakes on a baking sheet and then puts on top of the hot filling. I'll do that next time as I'm not so good with pie crust plus like puff pastry better.

[RosemaryHoney]

I do the same thing - making the filling ahead of time and later add crust. I used to just pull the frozen filling out, top it with the crust, and bake it for 25 minutes in a 375 oven. But a couple times, the filling got soupy. So now, I pull the filling out of the freezer the night before or the morning of the evening I plan to make the pot pies. By the time I top them with the crust, they're defrosted and they bake up perfectly. Hope that helps.

[dutchdot]

I would get the filling to the same temp as the newly made (and chilled) crust and then proceed. I think you'll have problems if you have food items at different temperatures to begin.

It's a fabulous recipe.