Its my favourite week of the year...
So lets fully embrace it! I've just initiated this week of all weeks with a chicken and mushroom pie. Very nice it was too. The first of many this week, I'm sure
So lets fully embrace it!
Your exclusionary, full pastry pie policy precludes a full embrace I’d have thought.
Casserole with a puff pastry hat on week is next week 😛
That not exclusionary, it's just having standards.. you only have too look at who the nay sayers are to realise that.
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I don’t have the energy for a full campaign in the ongoing pie war so I’ll just go for the nuclear option up front.
The Bobby Spice munchy box....peace through superior fryer power 😉
Does this week allow for fish pie and shepherd's pie? I'm against all stewpees but believe these two have the right to be considered in the pantheon of the pie.
I don’t have the energy for a full campaign in the ongoing pie war
I admire your resilience perchy and ability to ignore the truth. 🙂
But
Failure is as much a part of life as pain. It’s unavoidable. We can try to not fail, but sooner or later reality catches up with us, and we feel the sting of failure.
Happie days!
Our work canteen normally does decent trays of pie, but recently they've taken to serving stew with a filo pastry 'fascinator' on top and calling it a pie.
Grumble.
I admire your resilience perchy and ability to ignore the truth.
I’m hoping that if I bang on about it enough I’ll eventually upset someone and get a ban and finally get some actual work done.
That’s how it works, right?
Anyway, macaroni cheese pies are teh awesumz
I think fish pie and shepherd’s pie are all perfectly legit pies, and do not fall into the heresy of the casserole with a puff pastry lid.
Having just mentioned to Mrs Binners that its pie week (but having omitted to mention I've already had a chicken and mushroom pie for my lunch) she's informed me she's aware of this and is already on it, and is presently cooking.... a chicken and mushroom pie for tea
Double chicken and mushroom! What a way to start the week 😀
I found this thread only [i]after[/i] I returned from a Lidl shop. So, unfortunately the only pie I purchased is a pizza pie (as my mum used to call them back in the 70s).
Pie chart of the beans to pie ratio of my lunch a few weeks back.
A controversial addition* to national pie week from myself, behold...last nights creation.
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Puff pastry base, chestnut mushrooms/wild garlic pesto/sauteed courgette/tomato/mozzerella.
*binners will be apopletic with rage at such a creation being called a pie
Nice pie. I like your style
flan, that's a flan.
Or maybe pizza.
Nice pie, but you seem to have left your rubber orifice on the kitchen worktop.
A pie has a pastry base with a lid attached, so it can be held in the hand and eaten. Anything else is a casserole with a hat on!
Bloody heathens. 😖
Somafunk... you leave me no option...
Meat and pastry wi 'sommat moist'. I'll take pretty much any layout. And I'll put whatever the **** sauce on I want.
flan, that’s a flan.
Quite so.
Isn't it a little odd that Pie Week coincides with Shrove Tuesday? Ah well, pancake pie it is.
Laughs loudly at 'filo pastry fascinator'. Fire the chef!
This reminds me i've got a chicken pie in the freezer. And yes its a real pie with top bottom and sides 🙂
I’m hoping that if I bang on about it enough I’ll eventually upset someone and get a ban and finally get some actual work done.
That’s how it works, right?
Only if the pie base leaks and it's drip, drip, drip.
Only if the pie base leaks and it’s drip, drip, drip.
My pies don’t always have a base.
but recently they’ve taken to serving stew with a filo pastry ‘fascinator’ on top and calling it a pie.
🤣
My pies don’t always have a base.
Wha?
I had the pie conversation with my g/f just now, and she agrees that a proper pie should be a self-supporting container with whatever filling is desired. When her folks owned a pub in Salisbury, (one of many they owned over the years, she was born in a pub on the King’s Road in Chelsea), they did a Desperate Dan Beef and ale pie that had a pair of ceramic cow horns sticking out of the pastry top! Now that’s a pie!
Aldi Beef n Merlot pie .
Full pie with top n bottom .
a Desperate Dan Beef and ale pie that had a pair of ceramic cow horns sticking out of the pastry top! Now that’s a pie!
Despite the fact that a Desperate Dan Cow Pie is always depicted as a traditional Scottish ashet pie* in a dish with only a pastry lid?
*as dished up at most Scottish funerals and traditionally eaten on New Years day....withiut the horns and tail obviously.
in a dish with only a pastry lid?
So Stew with a pastry hat then?
IT'S NATIONAL ARGUE ABOUT IF A PIE NEEDS A PASTRY ****ING BASE WEEK AGAIN, I SEE!
Hurrah. But please think about the pasties too!
I happen to be partial to the pie & beans combo. Winner dinner.
Despite the fact that a Desperate Dan Cow Pie is always depicted as a traditional Scottish ashet pie* in a dish with only a pastry lid?
Ashet is from the French Assiette referring to a plate or bowl of food. It's NOT a pie.
IT’S NATIONAL A PIE NEEDS A PASTRY **** BASE WEEK AGAIN, I SEE!
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flan, that’s a flan.
Tart?
A pie has a pastry base with a lid attached, so it can be held in the hand and eaten. Anything else is a casserole with a hat on!
Bloody heathens. 😖
So to be clear; an eccles cake is, despite being called a cake, a pie then but a proper bacon and egg pie (that is to say no lid), despite being called a pie, isn't a pie?
A shepherd's pie is a pie even though it has no pastry at all but a "pot pie" isn't because restdespite having a pastry lid it's not got enough pastry.
What's a steak and kidney pudding then?
Would a fish pie be a pie if you replaced the potato with pastry?
so why cant I find a decent chunky white meat pie?
Sigh. This is at least the third year I've explained this, it's really simple.
As CZ said a pie is foodstuff enclosed in pastry, just as a sandwich is filling literally "sandwiched" between two slices of bread. So a meat pie is a self-contained pastry crust containing meat, ditto potato pie, etc.
With things like "cottage pie," this is simply the name of the dish as a whole, it is not a pie containing cottages. Similarly shepherds pie and, as someone else mentioned earlir (and will no doubt come as a disappointment to some), pot pie.
See also, beef wellington, Chorley cakes and club sandwiches.
Pie week brought to us by Jus-rol?!
And you're all arguing about wether it tops and bottoms?!
Go away and come back when you actually know what you are talking about*
*Except Perchy who is right about what a pie is AND the awesomeness of a macaroni pie.
a self-contained pastry crust containing meat,
What? You mean a pasty? Or a bridie?
Neither of which are pies.
Now then - after being disappointed at the imagery on the website of a pub "famous for its pies" where there was a large amount of ceramic base showing, I found out this morning that they are in fact proper pies but served in the dish they are cooked in. So desperate Dan's pie could well be a proper pie.
With things like “cottage pie,”
But this is the crux of the matter, if it's acceptable for something to be a pie, just because it's [i]called[/i] a pie surely all things can be pies by virtue of the decision just simply to call them pies?
