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Just what we all need to cheer us up. A celebration of pastry-based lovliness! I’ve just got all the ingredients for a chicken, gammon and leek pie and I’m just about to get the filling slow-cooking for the day.
So how are you planning on marking the greatest week of the year?
And don’t forget…
Yay!
It will be a chicken ham and mushroom pie here... but maybe not until Friday as that's pie-night!
Had a chicken, smoked bacon and leak pie from Lidl last night. I can recommend 👍
Pie week started on Sunday for us with Chicken, leek and tarragon and Lamb, mint and tomato bought fresh from the local farmers (that's add 30% 'standing in a windy barn' tax) market. Pastry thick enough to repel boarders. Once breached with a fork siege engine, out comes all that lovely gravy that's been marinating with the meat.
As these pies are on the larger side, the plan was just a side of vegetables. But as I'd been riding, we upgraded that to some air fryer chips.
To honour pie week, we plan to recreate these two magnificent homages to a proper pie.
Now then. I am all for pie, sweet, savoury fully encased, top only (but never a square of seperatefly baked puff bslanced on top).
But really... Who give a shit when there is a stack of pancakes to get through
Every week is pie week up here in the North! Today's lunch - Cissy Greens of Haslingden juicy meat pies
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Every week is pie week up here in the North! Today's lunch - Cissy Greens of Haslingden juicy meat pies
I hope those pies are far away....
Does a Greggs bake count as a pie? Fully enclosed in pastry suggests yes or are pasties a different beast?
I hope those pies are far away....
I've got massive sausage roll fingers......
Cissy Greens pies are absolutely top notch. I think I may have to pick a couple up tomorrow
Yay,and indeed wahay.
It will be* the spectacular -->> Chicken,sausage and leek edition<<--
Enclosed in my son's** very own pastry recipe.
* will have to wait until the morra night
** he's a baker
Must have been psychic as without knowing this I made a chicken and vegetable pie with left over roast chicken for tea yesterday. Shortcrust pastry top and bottom and the ceramic pie bird in the centre to let the steam out. Not a single grumble from the kids for a whole mealtime!
Pies definitely win.
I finished the last of Mrs officers excellent chicken, bacon and mushroom pie just yesterday. Most fortunate to have a decent baker in the house.
Our weekend pie is the same as yours. It's a Jamie Oliver recipe that I used as a base but swapped out the milk for chicken stock and added mushrooms. My other half loves it and says it's better than his pie speciality which is steak and mushroom in Old Peculier
We love pies
@fasthaggis - I use Campbells condensed cream of chicken soup as stock. It’s bloody lovely!
Cissy Greens pies are absolutely top notch.
They do a butter pie and Google suggests they're 13 minutes away. I may have to indulge, see if they can usurp Clayton Park. I'll report back if I do.
They do a butter pie and Google suggests they're 13 minutes away. I may have to indulge, see if they can usurp Clayton Park. I'll report back if I do.
As good as Clayton Park are (their toffee slice's are awesome) they shouldn't be uttered in the same pie crumb breath as Cissy Greens!
For over 200 years, Cissy Greens has been at the heart of Haslingden, Lancashire, creating what is now one of the most famous meat pies in the country.
Waitrose chicken and leek for lunch - excellent for a mid week lunch.
I'll report back if I do.
Denied, they shut at 4 and I didn't set off until just before then. I guess it's the sort of place you'd want to get to early anyway.
Waitrose chicken and leek for lunch - excellent for a mid week lunch.
I had an email from Waitrose re. British Pie Week so it must be a thing amongst posh folk too.
Posh people shop at Booths, not Waitrose!
In other good news, I'm in the office tomorrow and the canteen has "Selection of individual pies all served with chips or mash, seasonal vegetables and gravy". No packed lunch for me this week!
"Lord of the pies" would have been a far more wholesome book, contented schoolboys eating quietly and awaiting rescue (and more pies)
Posh people shop at Booths, not Waitrose!
Phew, that's OK then.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cddym06rmqno
Mmm.... Pie Bobs in Arbroath hot Baba Kebab pies are to die for 😋