Who knew? We in the suburbs north of Boston just may live in the chicken pot pie capital of Greater Boston. Maybe all of Massachusetts. Even New England.

It could be winter’s chill, or pure exhaustion after nonstop holiday cooking, that turns our minds (and stomachs) to chicken pot pie as the perfect “grab and go” dinner. What else provides a full dinner — meat, starch, and vegetable — encased in, sigh, a pie crust?