Today's pie

[vernon]

sorry i assumed you already had this?!
Cheers Ed

It's not beyond the realms of possibility. I get flour from this windmill:

And there's room for at least two of them on the roundabout in my street....

 

[Gravity Aided]

Shadow Flicker?
http://www.windvigilance.com/about-adverse-health-effects/visual-health-effects-and-wind-turbines

 

[vernon]

Shadow Flicker?
http://www.windvigilance.com/about-adverse-health-effects/visual-health-effects-and-wind-turbines

Yebbut look at who's parading it - an anti wind turbine organisation. The page reads like the list of excuses offered by a naughty boy desperately trying to avoid a school detention - rational ones degrading into desperately-seeking-supporting-evidence ones.

The Holgate Windmill in York has no objectors on noise and flicker grounds to my knowledge in the surrounding houses. Its rotation rate is much slower than wind turbines. It's regarded as an asset by the community and even won roundabout of the year award a couple of years ago.

 

[vernon]

Anyway back to the pie. It makes a great breakfast.

 

[DougieAB]

Pie for breakfast! Now you are really taking the mick. My porridge won't taste quite the same this morning.

 

[Arch]

Pie for breakfast! Now you are really taking the mick. My porridge won't taste quite the same this morning.

Pork pie for breakfast on Christmas morning is a tradition in our family, a Leicester tradition.

Nice pie Vernon.

 

[Gravity Aided]

I have to say I've never been bothered by the wind turbines or meat pies in my area. I was also led to believe there would be an ever increasing pile of dead birds near these as well, that hasn't happened,either. It's a nice attraction for the Spring Metric Ride we have, to go through one of the windmill farms. I don't know if I'd want one in my neighborhood.

 

[Roadrider48]

Is a raised pork pie with hot water pastry crust. The dark stain on the top is much lighter than the photograph suggests. The filing is a mixture of pork fillet, belly pork and smoked bacon. The seasoning is mace, nutmeg, white pepper and freshly chopped sage and thyme.

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The first tasting while hot indicated that the seasoning was nicely balanced apart from the pepper which was a tad boisterous. There was minimal voidage. The crust was just short of perfectly friable and the jelly made with chicken stock and gelatine was a nice counterfoil for the moist filling.

A pleasing first attempt that betters some of the pies bought from butchers. 8/10 hot. 9/10 cold - the pepper's bite was lessened by the drop in temperature and was less intrusive.

More than justifies the labour involved in clearing up after the explosive start to the pastry making described in another thread.

That is a great looking pie Vernon!

 

[vernon]

[QUOTE 3035595, member: 259"]White pepper's great stuff, much better than black pepper for sausage-making as well. The pie looks very nice, Vernon - lard in the hot water crust, I assume! [/QUOTE]

Yes. And on the ceiling, floor, work surfaces, cooker.....

 

[vernon]

[QUOTE 3035595, member: 259"]White pepper's great stuff, much better than black pepper for sausage-making as well. The pie looks very nice, Vernon - lard in the hot water crust, I assume!

[edit]Ha ha! Just saw the disaster thread! [/QUOTE]

It would have been hilarious had it happened to someone else. A ceiling repaint is now on the job list.

 

[Cycleops]

Are you going to do a "lite" version?

 

[DougieAB]

Pork pie for breakfast on Christmas morning is a tradition in our family, a Leicester tradition.

The in-laws are from Rugby and they always have pork pie on Christmas morning, seemed like a good idea so we now have it as well.

 

[theloafer]

@vernon some cracking pies here mate http://www.bishopaucklandfoodfestival.co.uk/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

 

[vernon]

@vernon some cracking pies here mate http://www.bishopaucklandfoodfestival.co.uk/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

I'll be in Darlo next weekend though I don't think I'll have time to visit Bishop Aukland.

 

[young Ed]

Are you going to do a "lite" version?

ooooh free pies!
Cheers Ed