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Food of the gods obviously, but are they suitable post-workout snack?
Loads of protein in there surely?
A packet of six - yep, fine!
Just one then you're some sort of deviant! 🙂
No, full size pork pies are the ultimate recovery tool. But as a pack of 6 same as their mini brethren.
With a nice wholegrain mustard, or brown sauce in an emergency.
I would say it depends on how many calories your workout burned. I find them best for fuelling all-day rides, maybe popping one or two every couple of hours.
Absolutely perfect post-anything snack.
Grab the HP sauce and get stuck in
Enjoy!
Delicious, but probably not the ideal post workout snack: not much protein and a lot of fat which will slow down the absorption of the carbs. But like I said, delicious. And do you even need the ideal post workout snack?
I think you want to put them in a cheese and haggis panini for maximum nutritional value, served with burre noisette dressing of course.
With a nice wholegrain mustard
I always go with English mustard on mine. Might give wholegrain a whirl to mix it up a bit.
For the Cheese fiends out there and possibly binners as well, some Boursin smeared on with every wedge.
I always go with English mustard on mine. Might give wholegrain a whirl to mix it up a bit.
Nice bit of crunchy texture and not quite such an overwhelming flavour.
Mini porkpies are best on a bike ride as they fit nicely in your pocket. For recovery meal a whole big porkpie seems appropriate.
Called dinky pies in our house.
No excuse required to eat them but the heaviest pastry:filling quotient if you’re eating a range of pie sizes as part of a balanced diet.
they are also good for preloading before a ride, even if that ride is in a few months time. Recommended
Great audax food to wake the taste buds up in the night - preferably sliced in half with a generous dollop of wholegrain mustard.
Yep, perfect. If you’re some sort of Olympian then maybe a generous slice of gala pie would be more appropriate
Mmmm Gala pie, I'm not a fan of hard boiled eggs but one that has been encased in pork tastes divine?
"Great audax food" is the correct answer; if you're not eating a pork pie sat on a park bench or in a bus shelter at 3am in the hissing rain, are you even alive.....
Pork and pickle mini ones - live on the edge.
We just had a few for lunch on top of a random Lake District peak. I always have mine with tomatoes.
They're lovely, but full of crap and not really any good for you....
@towzer The onion marmalade ones are good too. Why take extra condiments out when the pies can come pre-loaded?
Lid off, swap it for a similar thickness of Stilton. Flash it under the grill to melt the cheese (or don't bother and just eat it). Eat the lid for an additional snackette
Which ones are best? Current go to are Tesco 6 Mini Melton Mowbray Pork Pies 300G.
Is it worth me exploring alternatives?
@db as long as they're Melton Mowbray you'll be happy. The uncured meat (i.e. grey not pink) makes all the difference.
A packet of six – yep, fine!
Just one then you’re some sort of deviant!
Thread should have ended right there
For the Cheese fiends out there and possibly binners as well, some Boursin smeared on with every wedge
And this is exactly why I love this place. That sounds absolutely inspired! I’m going to be trying that at the first available opportunity
@bsims - cheers for that. I definitely fit into the cheese fiend category 😃
I prefer the larger ones you can slice. But filling aside, its getting the right pastry is the hard part. Many are just too dry.
some Boursin smeared on with every wedge.
Nice idea, a good combo.
Mini ones I find have a disappointing meat to pastry ratio so go with regular size ones.
Great audax food to wake the taste buds up in the night – preferably sliced in half with a generous dollop of wholegrain mustard.
Yep. And tough enough to be carried in jersey pockets. Follow up with an Eccles cake.
Thanks for the corroboration and the wonderful cheese ideas.
However the pork and pickle ones are nasty and I won't be going near them.
Is Boursin that muck with garlic in it? With a pork pie? Get your service revolver, man .....
Mini ones I find have a disappointing meat to pastry ratio so go with regular size ones.
^^^this for me
...but i love salad cream with pork pie so i probably fall under the deviant category 🙁
Is Boursin that muck with garlic in it? With a pork pie? Get your service revolver, man …..
Just for that I shall have some delivered to you with the new MBDA Cheese missile! It's laughing cow for grown ups.
However the pork and pickle ones are nasty and I won’t be going near them.
Disappointing, I think, rather than inadequate. Any pork in a storm, and all that.
However the pork and pickle ones are nasty and I won’t be going near them
I raise you a black pudding scotch egg.
Mini ones I find have a disappointing meat to pastry ratio so go with regular size ones.
I also agree with this^^ it needs to be an adult size for the full pork pie experience.
I raise you a black pudding scotch egg.
Hell yeah! My last time south of the border,I was wandering around a Booths and picked up some Happy Belly scotch eggs..
OMG,they were a thing of wonder. 😃 😊 😀
I raise you a black pudding scotch egg.
I'll see your black pudding and raise with a chorizo or onion marmalade scotch egg! (The farmshop at work does very well out of me with their cooked on the premises scotch eggs).
If you are in Staveley, the "More" bakery just by the bike shop has the best range of pies ever....
Also delivered to the farm shop at Tebay services....
I raise you a black pudding scotch egg.
Food of the gods. From our local butcher, back home and in the air fryer for a bit. Add a splodge of brown sauce and don't talk to me for a bit because I'm in my happy place.
Back to the OP - they also do caramelised onion topped pork pies. Therefore includes veg and is a perfect meal in one.
Good strong yellow English mustard only.
Actually... caramelised onion chutney... mmm...
One of the beauties of the pork pie is that it’s a right slag as far as condiments are concerned and will go with pretty much anything
I don't support Scotch Eggs. It's worse than veal crates due to the amount of sausage meat, (or black pudding) that they have to force-feed to the chickens.
One of the beauties of the pork pie is that it’s a right slag as far as condiments are concerned and will go with pretty much anything
You need to be a judge on Masterchef, painting pictures with words....
No excuse required to eat them but the heaviest pastry:filling quotient if you’re eating a range of pie sizes as part of a balanced diet.
Yep, it might be heresy but I don't particularly care for mini pork pies. Too much pastry and not enough filling.
Someone should create pie charts to show how the pastry/filling ratio changes as pie size increases.
Pie chart:
Why oh why have I not tried brown sauce or mustard with my mini pork pie snacks before!
My life may have just had a mini revolution!
You need to get out more often, things have moved onwards
https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/leon-beetroot-ketchup-300g
Mango chutney is also quite adaptable
I don’t support Scotch Eggs. It’s worse than veal crates due to the amount of sausage meat, (or black pudding) that they have to force-feed to the chickens.
Well, you got a lol from me anyway
Can we kill this thread now? I so want a pork pie now and they are of course illegal to take back with me to Brussels 🙁 *
*Actually I'm more upset that haggis now needs to be smuggled but that's another matter
Never had a good mini pork pie, all too greasy.but do like a good growler mid ride
Someone should create pie charts to show how the pastry/filling ratio changes as pie size increases.
It's not that hard. For a pie of diameter R, height H (typically H = 2R/3), with crust thickness D, the ratio of meat to pastry is just Ratio = pie*(R-D)^2*(2R/3-2*D)/(pie*(2/3)*R^3) which is approximately 1 - 5*D/R + O[(D/R)^2]. The pie's cancel (never a good thing), but the function declines monotonically for fixed crust thickness. Unless this is fixed, there is no optimal pie form. A thickness to radius ratio of about 10% that would be 50% filling, falling to 75% if filling is thinner.
Slow work day (Thanksgiving).
I really need a scotch egg, right now. Quartered and then heated in the microwave, not to 'hot' but enough to soften the meat a bit.
I think the most disappointed I've ever been* was when a work colleague was given the job of bringing the scotch eggs to the test match picnic for the four of us and turned up with mini picnic eggs.
* joint. The other time was when I found out she'd been wearing a Wonderbra**
** actually scrub that, I'm well over it. The picnic eggs though....
Cheese, Tomato, slice pork pie sandwich is my idea of heaven
Sauces can be a mix of HP, Salad cream or Newmans ranch
Slow work day (Thanksgiving).
Well, in your profession you probably always give thanks when it's a slow day? 😀
For balance there are no random peaks in the Lake District. Confiscate the posters Pork Pie.
I thank you.
Two pages in and nobody’s mentioned pork pie meat in a scotch pie pastry case. Far better than your southern version! Because the pastry lid is lower than the case you can melt cheese or fill with any condiment you fancy. Forsyth’s in Peebles is a prime example of this far superior pie.
*runs away and hides*
The pie’s cancel (never a good thing)
👏🏼
Deserved more praise.
give thanks when it’s a slow day?
sometimes it’s nice to spend the day just thinking about the science. And pies. Didn’t we have a trade agreement argument about pork pies. I can confirm that whilst my American colleagues overfill on turkey, they have no idea what a pork pie is.
Love the minis but can't beat a Gala Pie with an egg in there.
English mustard or hear me out....mango pickle, kaboom!
If you ladies even consider a mini pork pie you must shirley have already have a gastric band fitted.
'Mini Pork Pies'? WTF??
If you ladies even consider a mini pork pie you must shirley have already have a gastric band fitted.
‘Mini Pork Pies’? WTF??
ditto
i buy the normal sized pies in 3's. or a pound pie if available.
If you ladies even consider a mini pork pie you must shirley have already have a gastric band fitted.
*Reports for fatist misogyny*
If a pork pie has say red onion chutney and blue cheese in place of a pastry lid, does that in fact make it a tart? Just curious
If a pork pie has say red onion chutney and blue cheese in place of a pastry lid, does that in fact make it a tart?
Tart’s
‘Mini Pork Pies’? WTF??
Tartlet's
a pound pie if available.
Tartantuan?
Perfect mid bout bedside snack with a new partner
Perfect mid bout bedside snack with a new partner
A Tart?
Perfect mid bout bedside snack with a new partner
I can see it being a make or break moment in a new relationship.
Mini pork pies are always a little disappointing with too much pastry and not enough filling.
My homemade apple chutney has been a revelation when paired with a regular sized pork pie. Still have 2 full jars left so it may last until Christmas
If you ladies even consider a mini pork pie you must shirley have already have a gastric band fitted.
Young man, I’ll have you know that mini pork pies come in packs of 6 and without a gastric band my elasticated waist trousers would be called ankle warmers.
Mini ones I find have a disappointing meat to pastry ratio so go with regular size ones
Yep, I’d rather go fer a slice(or is it a quadrant ?), it the pastry that gets you fat 🙂
I always found it a tad dry for an on-bike snack and hot beers grim.