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Almost up to date at last! Pie 9 was made tonight – it was supossed to be goat’s cheese & mushroom polenta pie, but it turned out to be more like mushroom and artichoke pie with a feta and polenta […]

It’s from the HBPP – vegetable samosas. Overall assessment – tasty, and the recipe was easy, but far too fiddly to assemble! Tasted good though!

This week, I decided to tackle my first sweet pie – a traditional Bakewell tart!  The puff pastry was shop bought, on the advice of Si & Dave, but everything else was homemade. It was a delicious pudding after a […]

Rattling through the pie updates now! Pie 6 – the HBPP Salmon gratin.  An expensive one, as it used a half salmon, but very tasty and it did yield quite a few portions.

Another week, another pie. 28th January was another HBPP (Hairy Bikers perfect Pie) – tuna mayonnaise plate pie.  A lazy recipe this week – store cupboard ingredients but I did make my own shortcrust pastry.  This would make a great […]

Let me introduce you to the main source of the pie recipes, Si & Dave!       I will try to add the filling recipe to this post later on….  

OK, so I am a bit late posting these pies…. Pie 3 was made on 19th January and was a celeraic & potato topped cottage pie. No recipe in this post, it was just thrown together really!  If I get […]

Pie number two was a truly fabulous fish pie with three root mash topping. For the pie filling: 600ml milk 1 onion, cut into large chunks 2 bay leaves approx 500g white fish 75g butter 75g plain flour 3tbsp white […]

OK, so I need to do a pie update. The first pie night took place in the first week of January and was. therefore, Christmas leftovers pie! The filling ingredients were, well, what was left over (turkey & ham) in […]