Tag Archives: Pies and Pastry

Did someone say pie?


I woke up this morning feeling an order of magnitude better than yesterday. I still had an headache and my muscles and joints were sore. My skin was sensitive to touch, but I felt well enough to attend work.

Bron came to my rescue tonight. My appetite was missing in action most of today but it came around this afternoon knowing that Bron was going to give me some lamb and vegetable pie. This was pie made from left over lamb from the dinner party on Saturday night. Bron gave me too pieces so I thought I should eat both.

When I went to collect the pie, I was in for a lovely surprise. Bron had made pecan pie for a work mate and had some left over. I got a nice couple of pieces.

Lamb and vegetable pie

Pecan pie

Leftover duck and leek pie


On Christmas eve eve (last Friday) we watched a Jamie Oliver Christmas special. He described his leftover turkey and leek pie which looked amazing. For our Christmas we had a roast duck and we thought it would go well as a leftover duck and leek pie. The other twist to the recipe is that instead of rolling chestnuts into the pastry, walnuts were rolled in. It gave the pastry a great flavour and a fantastic texture.

Duck and leek pie

On the plate I found turning the pie upside down better as a vessel to absorb the amazing gravy that coms from preparing the filling.

Duck and leek pie

What I haven’t added are the images of me eating the leftover pie from the pie dish and all the gravy poured into it. Well not all the gravy, but most of it.