A Square Pie (in a round hole)

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.

2010: International Year of the Pie Wall Calendar Out Now

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).

Higgidy Pie 2: Revenge of the Pie

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. 

The Road to Wigan Pie

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.

Come Pie With Me

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.

And they call it pudding love…

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.

Pie Chart: Father’s Day

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.

Click here to check out our pie wares.

Oxfam Music Links

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.

Pieway to Hell

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.

Can’t Stop the Top

You can carry on voting if you like, but there’s just no fighting it.  Short crust has won the great “What topping would you choose as a topping on your pie if you could choose any kind of topping (from this list of three types of topping)” poll, enabling the humble flower-based favourite to sneer and go ”in your face” at both puff pastry and mash. 

I think the word is probably “historic”.