International break time so let’s get down to the real stuff that matters with a thread dedicated to pies.
What’s the best pie you’ve ever had, where and what
What’s your staple pie / comfort pie / dream pie etc?
Any no no pie?
savoury over sweet?
What do you actually class as a pie? I genuinely don’t understand how a shepherd and a cottager got away with calling their offerings ‘pies’
let’s take a deep filled plunge into the Charlton Life of Pie (let Mehmet get his open goal out his system early doors and then move on)
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Favourite sweet pie is 100% apple pie, although I have just been introduced to pumpkin pie, which was surprisingly nice.
Best pie in recent memory was at The Bull in Wargrave, about 8 inches in diameter and completely filled with rich steak in red wine. Add a blazing fire in the hearth and a couple of pints of Brakspears and you have the perfect autumn dinner.
Pricy, mind you, at about £16, but you won't eat for the rest of the day.
In Wigan a few years back I had a meat and potato pie bap.
It was basically a meat and potato pie in a large roll that had about a slab of butter on each side.
It was absolutely glorious although my heart didn't beat properly for about a week afterwards.
Comfort pie is mince and onion
Dream pie was a sweet potato, chorizo and feta offering I once had in a restaurant, it was outstanding
Not found any veg pies I love yet.
Sweet has to be apple.
I don't think a well made minced beef and onion pie can be beaten though
Cook , don't know if they're still about , used to do a real decent chicken, ham and leek one .
my (deceased) old man , who was a chef , made the greatest Chicken Pie ever and anyone who tasted it knew it was special and always begged for me to get him to make more , my wife hasn't forgiven me for not getting the recipe off him before he passed away , it's basically best to have never had that pie because everything else is soooooo far behind .
Australia love a pie , i remember travelling out there for a couple of months in 1998 and living on pies everywhere .
Brendan O'connell's 'It was basically a meat and potato pie in a large roll that had about a slab of butter on each side' sounds like heaven to me can't beat a bit of bread or a pie and the melted butter action.
Sweet wise i like a good (heated always) apple pie with hot custard and ice cream for the old hot/cold combo .
also partial to a banoffee pie , although thats not a pie as a pie should be .
Think they had won awards for their pies.
When I go to the Emirates with my brother, we always go to Piebury Corner and its a top notch pie.
Pies named after famous Arsenal players, I always go for the Tony Adams (steak and ale)
https://pieburycorner.com/shop/
More ale than steak I assume?
Don't mind an apple pie or the likes but a real pie is meat and gravy. On the rare occasion I cook a sunday roast the best thing to do is to get the leftover Beef (and veg) chop into chunks throw it in with the gravy, slow cook for a few hours and stick it in a pie. Heaven.
Went to a lovely country pub (have been trying to remember the name ever since) a year or so ago when visiting my gf's Gran - it served pies that made you drool. The owner was serving us and i complimented her on her pies, she told me they sell 400 a week. if I lived nearby I would eat 400 a week on my own.
There is always a place for a pork pie.
And now I'm hungry at my desk.
Mini-pork pies are a good snack.
Chicken and Mushroom pie with chips is good too