shawn cooks 01: sweet and spicy chicken pot pie

So typically I would leave all the writing to my wonderful boyfriend Xai, the creator of this spectacular food extravaganza, however, I am just too inclined to stealing the spotlight from time to time =) Hello everyone! My name is Shawn and I am often portrayed as the wonderful, assistant boyfriend in almost every blog. For those of you who do know me you know me as the couch potato, leave all the cooking to my boyfriend type of guy. Well ladies, gentlemen, fairies, and lumberjacks, this is my sorry excuse of a poor agenda to prove the world wrong; I can cook too =)

You know how when you have a significant other in your life you try to compromise (even sometimes against your will) and get into the things that they like to do? Xai has been wonderful about going out to the tennis courts with me so I figured, “What the heck; I will take a trip to his home court!” And we all know that this means I had to tie up my apron and run the gauntlet known as the Obviously Omnivore Kitchen; a place where no ordinary human being could survive that easily. Luckily, I have been with the man for 3 years and counting and have developed survival tactics like no other. So with all this introductory stuff out of the way let’s sink our cyber teeth into another delicious recipe!
Obviously Omnivore is not just about spurs of creativity. We’d like to think that from our creative ideas we can make things that bring people together, meals that make you reminisce and feel comfort, and even those, “I need to eat in 15 minutes” kind of meals because everyone is different. When I thought of this recipe, I wanted to do something that was inspired by my relationship with none other than mister Chef Xai himself =P I did a sweet and spicy chicken casserole with a buttermilk biscuit crust because sometimes things are sweet and savory and sometimes things just get so hot that we both need a time out. But I think EVERYONE’S taste buds will agree, metaphorically speaking as well, that the flavors are wonderful together and you couldn’t pair them any other way.

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