the first day of....
[url= http://www.britishpieweek.co.uk/ ]BRITISH PIE WEEK[/url]
WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! 😀 I shall be celebrating by cooking DrP's wondrous creation! In fact I'm getting in touch with the powers that be to see if we can have him made a patron saint.
This thread needs to be kept going through the week with pie related loveliness, with associated pictures of course
Enjoy. I know I will be.
I really wish my Mum was still alive.
Pies, youve never tasted pies!
They've changed the dates on that the buggers, it was 17-24th!
fair to say that a pie is a movable feast, nbt, so why not pie week ? 😆 😳
I shall be having pie chips 'n' beenz tomorrow, and "grace" will be said in honour of DrP's very own story of creation
Amen to that fella! One of my best memories is of eating my grans meat and potato pies on a Saturday afternoon, watching Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks slug it out. I still don't think I've tasted better. Bless her! 😀
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I'll be having leftover chicken, bacon, mushroom pie tomorrow night...class!
Should I ???!!!
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My mum used to make meat & potato pies every Sunday, we sat and ate them with HP sauce watching the Onedion Line.
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You'd never fit a pie through that hole though, would you?
Well, maybe a dinky.
So what pie-related celebrations has everyone planned for the week then?
you'd not get me putting my dinky in there ^ 😯
So what pie-related celebrations has everyone planned for the week then?
Meal of Champions for lunch today, of course
At work we've been having a series of "bake-offs", this months it's "Come pie with me" in honour of British Pie Week, but the comp isn't on till Fri 23rd so it ties in with the original dates of BPW
edit: Meal of Champions = Babbies yed 'n' a mixture, for the uneducated
On Friday I've got some very important Chinese visitors coming. After a few days yomping around science parks they want to come to a traditional English home! Ours!?!!! That aside I'm going to do some pies - I was thinking pork pie, pear and Stilton for starters. Any other ideas?
wingnuts...
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Surely this compresses the whole English culinary tradition into one pie 😉
My grandmother used to make fantastic apple pies.
Maybe we've been too focussed on the savoury pie here, perhaps it's time for some sweet pie 🙂
I started early 😳
I went out Saturday afternoon for a "few beers" in Manchester. It got messy after 6 hours of ales.
On my way home I called into our local chippy and got meat & potato pie, chips and gravy and a steak pie for walk home! Took me back it did. Staggering along with a bag of nosh in one hand and a pie on the go in the other.
Binners - Totally agree, but I was thinking of that for the start of saturday. Not sure whether its a good idea as the plane might not take off in the afternoon if they've all had one!
Right that's it! I've been shamed into making pastry. It's been too many years. What's put me off is the fact I have warm hands and I'm too impatient to put the pastry into the fridge to let it cool etc.
However DrP has spurred me on to make the 'breakfast pie' and everything but blackpudding is in the fridge waiting.
I am seriously tempted to make DrP(ie's) leviathan but after Saturday's shortcrust tsunami, I may leave it a couple of weeks. Cracking idea though.
To complete day ,please remember to let your pies cool on your open kitchen window sills .
Balaclava check
Pie swag bag check
Pie eating spork check .
Mmmmmmmm pie
Today's pie-based dinner, chicken, ham and leek.
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Inspired by DrP
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DrP's full English breakfast pie went down a storm this evening! A resounding success! Fantastic! Pictures to follow when I upload them
Tonight, I've subverted the pastry based hegemony and gone for the Shepherds Pie.
Funny, normally I'd crawl over broken glass for a bit of pastry, but when i'm encouraged, nay expected to eat it, I get all bolshy.
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Bloody subversive!
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Does a Beef Wellington count as a pie?
What are the Rules of Pie ?
Beef wellington = posh pie.
Full English breakfast = far-from posh pie
Ladies and gentlemen, feel your arteries hardening.....
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An homage to DrP's creation with added black pudding
Binners, I love it!!!
[b]Binner's creation:[/b] (Note the absence of salad!)
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Good glistening colour, nice mixture of ingredients, and a good golden topping - 9/10!
DrP
A 9 out of ten from the pie master. Wow! Fanks! 😀
We had it with chunky chips DrP. I did add some greenery in the form of peas for the benefit of the ladies
Note the absence of salad!
Well the beans and tomatoes must be 2 of your 5-a-day. Shrooms are almost vegetable, so +1 there, and the flour in the pastry came from a plant, so another +1. And the bacon+bangers are just reprocessed vegetable matter 😉 so that makes 5/5 in my book 😉
Tempted to do shepherd's (well cottage) pie and rhubarb crumble for afters. OK neither are officially a pie, but they're close enough for me.
I had the crazy idea of a 'russian pie' (like...russian dolls...)
ooh - fancy pants me!
DrP
I had a similar idea DrP. A sausage roll, inside a pasty, inside a pie
I'm planning the Steak and Kidney Pudding Pie.
I shall call it the Georgy Porgy.
I'm thinking of a Hollands Steak and Kidney Pud, surrounded by mushy peas, encased in pastry.
More to follow, expriments currently ongoing.
Dam it !!!!
My son has sussed my cheat for golden pastry ,adding turmeric to flour mix then glaze with milk when eggs are all gone. 😳