Shamrock Pie, Pieminister
My hints didn’t get me anywhere.
When Jon from Pieminister commented on a pie portrait and suggested I should assess their wares, I mentioned that I could, y’know, do with eating a few more of them. So, having exchanged pleasantries, I thought maybe we’d move on to exchanging pies. And then I’d work out what to do later if, contrary to all the recommendations, they turned out to be horrible.
Chicken Curry Pie, The Square Pie Company
I learned a valuable lesson from this pie my friends.
I learned that you shouldn’t pour gravy over a curry pie.
The new 2010 What Pie Wall Calendar, celebrating the International Year of the Pie, is on sale now.
It looks like this:
Each month is illustrated by a thematicallly appropriate mouthwatering pie, and a suitably inspiring message: click here to see a preview of what each month has in store. (You can actually select each month in turn at the bottom there….)
Or click here to order yours now. It’s a snip at £12 (UK), $17.99 (US).
British Beef, Stilton and Ale Pie, Higgidy Pies
Like the notorious and controversial Stilton, Feta and Pine Nut model discussed earlier, this offering from Higgidy is a lovingly rendered take home and bake number available from supermarkets and the like. Read the rest of this entry »
Spinach, Feta and Toasted Pine Nuts Pie, Higgidy Pies
Whenever I’ve seen one of the Sunday supplements do a pie feature, the lovely offerings from Higgidy have come in for a bit of a bashing. Chiefly, it seems, because they’ve committed the apparently terrible crime of making their pies a bit posh.
That and the fact that Sunday supplement pie features tend to be written by cretins.
Spicy Butterbean Pie, Pure Pie
Pure Pie run the excellent organic and free range pie concessions at London Bridge station and the like (see also the Organic Chicken, Smoked Cheese and Mushroom Pie), and this Spicy Butterbean Pie with mixed vegetables and mature cheddar is an absolute belter. Read the rest of this entry »
Steak and Ale Pudding, Sainsbury’s
A ghostly apparation visited your What Pie servant in Sainsbury’s, implored me to try this pudding and then vanished into the air like the ghost of puddings future. I now suspect they may have worked for Sainsbury’s. Read the rest of this entry »
We asked 100 dads: what are you hoping to receive for Father’s Day?
Here’s what they said.
Don’t forget, you can still order excellent gifts for pie loving dads from The What Pie Shop. Although if you are in the UK you might want to get a wriggle on, as they are manufactured in the USA, and delivery can take a week or so.
May I recommend a T-shirt with an extremely lovely pie on it, and the legend “Make Pies Not War”, “Happiness is a Warm Pie”, “In Crust We Trust” or “Give Pies A Chance”. Or a mug along similar lines. There are even “Happiness is a Warm Pie” boxer shorts. Man we spoil you.
Oxfam have closed their Big Noise music download service. So links on older pie reviews will no longer work. Sorry. Whatpie will attempt to redirect those hitherto easily accessed musical accompaniments at some point.
For now, new pie profiles will carry links to suitable (or, more likely, just pun-tastic) sonic offerings via www.last.fm.
Steak, Ale & Shallot Organic Pie, Marks & Spencer
Hurray, it’s an organic pie, and it’s quite big and hearty.
Boo, it’s a bit bland really. Read the rest of this entry »
