Saturday, June 26, 2004
The Pie Challenge - Chicken and Ham Pie Recipe
A recipe for making a pie quickly and cheaper than Selfridges. Cost of making the pie is in brackets. Serves 4 - 6 people.
Ingredients
1/2 Cooked small chicken deboned and chopped into pieces (£1.25)
1 can of sweetcorn (28p)
1 tin of condensed chicken soup (48p)
1 small onion chopped (10p)
1 small packet of smoked ham (68p)
1 packet of frozen puff pastry (43p)
chopped parsely (10p)
salt and pepper (2p)
1 teaspoon vegetable oil (2p)
milk for brushing the pastry (2p)
Total Cost £3.38
Method
Cook the onions in a little oil, and then add all the other ingredients apart from the pastry and mix well. Put into a pie dish and then cover with rolled out puff pastry brush with a little milk for shine. Bake in the oven at 180 C (or 130 C if you use Timmy's microwave/combination oven) for 45 minutes and then eat.
Mmm Pie!
Ingredients
1/2 Cooked small chicken deboned and chopped into pieces (£1.25)
1 can of sweetcorn (28p)
1 tin of condensed chicken soup (48p)
1 small onion chopped (10p)
1 small packet of smoked ham (68p)
1 packet of frozen puff pastry (43p)
chopped parsely (10p)
salt and pepper (2p)
1 teaspoon vegetable oil (2p)
milk for brushing the pastry (2p)
Total Cost £3.38
Method
Cook the onions in a little oil, and then add all the other ingredients apart from the pastry and mix well. Put into a pie dish and then cover with rolled out puff pastry brush with a little milk for shine. Bake in the oven at 180 C (or 130 C if you use Timmy's microwave/combination oven) for 45 minutes and then eat.
Mmm Pie!
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Pikea
Today Tim and I went to Ikea because it would make a change from going to Bullring. Our mission was to find some bowls, a pie dish and a cushion for my mum. Timmy wanted to by the biggest bowl in the world to eat his noodles from, but he settled for something slightly more modest - but its still a big bowl. Tomorrow we are going to make pie in the pie challenge.
Monday, June 14, 2004
Piefridges
Pie from Selfridges & Co is very expensive. Tim and I bought one that was on sale at 75% off. A Turkey and Ham pie, originally £3.85 - thats a lot of money for a pie. Ok it was tasty, but I bet I could make a pie for less, or at least a bigger pie.... My next challenge is to make the pie.
Thursday, June 03, 2004
Dim Sum for breakfast
Anyone who knows me will know that I am particularly fond of food, I like eating it, cooking it and talking about it. Like today, I ate dim sum (sui mai to be exact) for breakfast. Now for those who have no idea what dim sum is, they are bite sized parcels of food, sometimes wrapped in a wrapper (a little like pasta). The ones I had at breakfast are pork and prawn mince wrapped in wanton pastry and then steamed - very nice! Accompanying them were steamed pork and vegetable buns (pao to give them their chinese name). Makes a change from eating noodles for breakfast.
