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Not enough threads about PIES!

Got a chicken and mushroom one to come out the oven soon. Yum yum yum.

I think one of the first pictures I posted on the tef was of a pie, one I made in a disgusting student kitchen. It was still nice though.

I had steak and kidney a couple of nights ago. Yum yum :)

I'm a connoisseur of pies. Can't beat a traditional steak and ale.

I haven't had a pie since the season ended.

Has anyone had a Pieminister pie? If so, are they any good?

Like pies for priests?

I'm told that they're pies fit for the gods.

http://www.pieminister.co.uk/

My missus' family raved about the Clarks Pie - I was disappointed.

My pie was delicious.

Lazy though. As much meat as I could get off of last nights chicken. Mushrooms. A pint of white sauce made from packet. A packet of puff pastry. Job done.

Tomorrow I'll use the left over puff pastry to make some delicious cheese and tomato tartlettes.

Also I made little pastry chickens to put on the top but they looked more like sheep.

 I'd like to flag up an appreciation of the steak and kidney pudding...sort of a pie, but a bit different 4 hours of steaming is old school cookery, my mother used to make a mean specimen when I was a kid...all fast food now.

Rabbit pie is the best of all. None of your poncy puff pastry - proper shortcrust with lots of carrots, onions and gravy.

A PINT! How big was this pie, and did you eat it all yourself? Don't take this the wrong way FB, but how much do you weigh?

pukka chicken and mushroom pie and chips from york rd chippy.yummy!

haha it was a big pie. I didn't eat it all. Shared half of it with my mum.

I'm a bit overweight but I'm not a beast.

Anything from York Road chippy is good in my book!

I've never tried a Frey Bentos pie. Are they as bad as they look?

They are worse.  Presumably they are designed for use in a nuclear bunker.

Absolute pies are Mint!

Mint flavoured pies?

I thought he meant vodka flavoured pies

Mint and vodka pies sounds like a disaster.

Chuck in some lamb and cook for a while to take the edge off the Vodka, use fresh mint and it could be a bit of a dark horse.

But then we'd be in a naming scenario where the pie I had today would be called "packet white sauce and ground black pepper pie'. The emphasis is all wrong.

You can name it Marilyn if you like, as long as it has meat, booze and pastry I'll tuck in.

Cheval Pie?

Heathen.

Ach you beat me to it Doore.

How about Lamb Mint and Vodka. Could work.

Imagine the menu:

Beef & Red wine pie
Lamb & Vodka pie

I think you'd try it, Ben

Pork and cider pie.

Of course, Steak and ale is already a winner.

I think something gamey, like duck, could pull of a combo with port as well.

I'm hungry.

The "TEf Alcoholic Pie Competition" sounds like a worthy successor to the TEf Sandwich Competition which went so well earlier in the year.

Just to clarify - pies made with alcohol, or by alcoholics?

Either, with extra bonus points for both.

Well I'm keeping my pie suggestion a secret then in readiness for such an event.

amen!

No, they're fantastic. (they also do a steak and kidney pudding Reg)

 Fray Bentos is actually the name of a town in Uruguay

the game pie at the three crowns is the best pie I've ever had.

The pub outside Salisbury Racecourse sometimes has roadkill pie.

You can't beat a home made banoffee pie. Purists say it's not really a pie, but for the purposes of this argument it definitely is.

Not a big savoury pie fan myself, I definitely avoid anything made with internal organs (kidney and liver - yuck).

If it hasn't got a lid it's not a pie!

;)

Agreed... the chicken curry one especially.

Waitrose Steak and Ale  :eatkf: Pricey but tasty !

Off at a tangent slightly, but I didn't know Fred Elliot made curry sauces......

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/8109179.stm

a nice hairy pie

Glad someone said it, my old dear does a cracking steak and kidney pudding, it's one of my favourites. She also does an ace meat pie, which does not mean meat in the way Australians put it on their pie ingredients list, but meat in the sense of loads of different meats.

i had pie and chips this evening,but made the ,istake of going to cavendish square chippy.the pie wasn't a pukka one and the chips were god damn awful.
bloody let down.:(

Best pie in the world is the Peel Pie.    Home made in a local family bakery in Peel (nowt to do with the filling) they're fresh meat and potato with hot steaming gravy piped in through a hole in the roof.

Absolutely ledgendry stuff and you can genuinely taste the quality and fresh ingredients.

Sold out by lunch most days.

That's a hole in the roof of the pie presumably Dazzza ?

Unfortunately although I like the idea of a hot gravy shower.

I'm just tucking into a lovely steak pie, my first pie in too long. Funnily enough I'm a real fan of pies but I don't eat them enough anymore.

I also share the view that it's not a proper pie unless it has a lid. A dessert pie without a lid is really a tart.

I'd also like to add that a 'pie' without a pastry wall is also not a real pie.

So in order to be a true Pie Si, you must have both a pastry wall and a lid.

Fantastic play on words. I also concur with that statement.

So if I fill a pie dish with meat and gravy and bake it with a pastry lid, what is it if it isn't a pie?

A casserole with a lid

Now you're just making it up as you go along ;D

But what about shepherd's/cottage/cumberland pie?  None fit the pastry description yet all traditionally known as pies....

A 'casserole with a pastry lid' description on a menu would prevent me from ordering a pie, expecting a pie and getting a halfway house pie which is neither a casserole or soup nor a pie.

Cobblers

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza - actually its not a pie because it doesn't have a pastry lid. That's amore.

I've never eaten a cobbler, I may have to make one sometime in the near future.

This man speaketh sense.

You been to church this morning Samdy?

Most certainly not.

Thought it might have explained the Old Testament language.

Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou

I have this argument with my GF. She is from Sweden and the pies they make are rubbish. basically they make Quiche and call it "Swedish pie" She turns her nose up at our pies and says that a pie cannot have both a pastry top and bottom.

Sometimes i wonder how long this relationship will last  :spank:   

I think in every relationship there comes a point where a man must choose between the lady in his life and pies.

To paraphrase Ewan Macgregor in Trainspotting: "choose pies".

Have to say I haven't had this one yet....beer..yes, drugs..yes, football..probably, another woman..yes. Even a further degree...but never pies.

all this pie talk is reminding me of gays creamery in dawlish.from savoury to sweet,they make some fine pies.the cherry pie,with a dollop of clotted cream is awesome

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Arriba, thankyou for making i laugh

I am making a liver and onion pie from scratch tomorrow for a group of friends.  Home-made pastry and everything. 

Not done this before.  Could be a disaster.  Should be good though.