Pot Pies

Since I am not Super Mom and can't actually do everything by myself all of the time...

On my way home from work one day I found it necessary to have my 10 year old daughter start dinner for our family so that everyone could eat before rushing off to our various meetings and practices that evening. I called home on my cell phone and carefully talked her through (what I thought) were all of the steps in putting some pot pies in the oven to bake:

1. Turn the oven on to 450 degrees.
2. Take the pot pies out of their boxes and place them on a cookie sheet.
3. Carefully place the cookie sheet on the middle rack of the oven.
4. Close the oven door.

Simple really, what could I have missed?

When I arrived home, I checked the oven to see if all was well and to confirm that dinner would be ready shortly. Instead, what I found were four pot pies placed on a cookie sheet on the middle rack of the oven - upside down!

This is the way my daughter was always served her pot pie (my having inverted it to remove it from the pie plate as I placed it on her plate). It never occurred to her that they did not go INTO the oven like that, just as it never occurred to me to tell her to put them on the cookie sheet face up.

That's what I get for NOT being Super Mom and relying on my family to help out! :)

By the way, if you flip the pot pies over with a large spatula they turn out fine, the top crust comes out nice and crispy!