It’s the gift that keeps giving, Christmas shoppers — the 2011 What Pie “Pies of the Year” Calendar is now on sale, and its packed with mouthwatering and informative pie-based loveliness. Have trouble telling if it’s Tuesday? Or remembering what a pasty looks like? Now you can do both, in the comfort of your own home. Drool.
There is an excellent article on making sausage rolls on the Guardian website. Most festive. And strikes just the right tone regarding the potentially lovely yet often horrifying meaty snack, I think.
The WhatPie Shop is back up and running after a small summer refit, and once again offers an unrivalled selection of T-shirts with pies on. The award-winning* 2010 International Year of The Pie calendar is also available for a limited period**.
It’s at www.cafepress.com/thewhatpieshop.
(* The 2010 International Year of the Pie calendar has not actually won any awards. Not even made up ones.)
(** The limited period in question is the year 2010. Ish.)
Quorn Mini Sausage Roll
I’ve just eaten a Quorn Mini Sausage Roll, a vegetarian micro-protein take on the classic baker’s see-no-evil, taste-no-evil extravaganza that proved so convincing I kept bracing myself for a mouthful of inedible gristlyness. I guess that’s a good thing.
The WhatPie shop is undergoing a temporary closure while we refit it. Rest assured it will be back forthwith, packed with our exciting new autumn range.
We can only apologise if you have just the right occasion for a t-shirt with a beef pie on it in the meantime.
It’s British Pie Week 2010, apparently. Hurrah! Even if it appears to be a promotional gimick for a pastry manufacturer. But hey, so what. Go eat pies. And if you discover any worth noting let us know.
The Jus-Rol pastry British Pie Week site is at www.britishpieweek.co.uk.
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 $17.99 (US) (which is £14.50 in UK money at the time of writing).
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 »
