{"id":962,"date":"2013-11-17T21:58:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T21:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/?p=962"},"modified":"2020-10-26T10:54:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T10:54:31","slug":"chicken-and-leek-skillet-pie","status":"publish","type":"recipe","link":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/recipe\/chicken-and-leek-skillet-pie\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicken and Leek Skillet Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been a bit busy in the Creative Caveman household! We popped over to the UK to record new songs for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VikiVortexAndTheCumshots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the band<\/a> and visit friends and family. And, to be honest, I&#8217;ve been keeping quite basic with my cooking for a while in an effort to simplify things. But hey, that gets boring. So decided to put something new together.<\/p>\n<p>My chicken and leek skillet pie turned out rather nice! I like the idea of a chicken and leek pie, in a creamy sauce, but, let&#8217;s face it &#8211; I don&#8217;t do pastry. And I&#8217;m a li&#8217;l too lazy to make a white sauce. This dish doesn&#8217;t suffer though! The cauliflower adds a nice creaminess. It&#8217;s a little more <a title=\"Not So Shepherd\u2019s Pie\" href=\"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/2025\/not-so-shepherds-pie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shepard&#8217;s Pie<\/a> than pastry pie, but absolutely delicious.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSC_3248-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSC_3248-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSC_3248-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSC_3248-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSC_3248-640x424.jpg 640w, https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSC_3248-91x60.jpg 91w, https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSC_3248-321x214.jpg 321w, https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSC_3248-207x136.jpg 207w, https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSC_3248-140x94.jpg 140w, https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/DSC_3248.jpg 1181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British type pie minus the pastry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"recipe-course":[98,55],"recipe-cuisine":[],"recipe-cooking-method":[],"recipe-tag":[64],"recipe-key":[44,20,39,38,23],"recipe-badge":[],"recipe-dietary":[],"class_list":["post-962","recipe","type-recipe","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","recipe-course-all-recipes","recipe-course-mains","recipe-tag-pie","recipe-key-egg-free","recipe-key-gluten-free","recipe-key-high-protein","recipe-key-keto","recipe-key-low-carb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/recipe"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"recipe-course","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe-course?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"recipe-cuisine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe-cuisine?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"recipe-cooking-method","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe-cooking-method?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"recipe-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe-tag?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"recipe-key","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe-key?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"recipe-badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe-badge?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"recipe-dietary","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe-dietary?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}