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Reader’s pies

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Proud of your pie? Let us admire it with you

This month’s pie comes from a young fan of the Gobbler named Alice. She made this pie with only the smallest helping hand from her good (grown up) friend Tillie, and we were so impressed we couldn’t let her get away without telling us all about her crusty creation.

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Are you proud of your pie?
Yes.

Tell us what’s in it.
Apples and blackberries (I peeled all the apples).

If the pie had superpowers what would they be?
Flying. Or Arabic dancing.

What do you think of people who don’t like pies?
People who don’t like pies are crazy.

Will you ever make another pie again?
Yes next time we will make SIX.

Who had the biggest slice of your pie?
Dad.

Anything else to add?
It was yummy and i wish you were here to try it

So do we Alice. So do we.

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This pie, just in. From some boys at university in Nottingham who have done us a chicken and mushroom and the second in what we hope will be a series of blinking good pie-faces. This is JEREMY TALBOT - he favours the singular oven glove.

JEREMY, YOU’VE LEFT THE OVEN ON!

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The first reader’s pie of 2010 comes from Natalie and Joanna in Watford. It’s a work of beauty, containing chicken and leek (and more, as we shall see). It is modelled here by Natalie, with so much enthusiasm that we just couldn’t resist.

Whose recipe did you use?
It is from this book - with a little improvisation. We wanted mushrooms, so we had them.

Did you watch TV while you ate it? If so, what did you watch?
Come Dine With Me. I think we were inspired.

If the pie was a human, what would its name be?
Maud or Derek.

Did you eat it all?
We each had a HUGE portion, then Joanna took the rest to work…

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We’d love to know about your pies. So if you have a recipe, photo, or even a description of a pie you’ve enjoyed recently, then send it over to us at:

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Comments



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Uncle Chris - 27th October 2009, 8:44pm

I had a pie once. It was at a pie stall in the Rawson Market in Bradford. It came with mushy peas and mint sauce. This stall was called “Pie Toms” and was there from the mists of time until around twenty years ago when the stall/name was bought by Morrisons supermarket. Pie Toms seated about eight people on narrow high backed benches, a six inch (150mm) deep shelf on the back of each forming the “table” of the bench behind. A few years after Pie Toms lost its name, the whole market was demolished. I haven’t seen the pies for some time now, but you can still buy the frozen peas, which are now sold in twin packs as “microwave mushy peas”. They really are very good and are unusual in not containing any colouring.

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Uncle Chris - 29th October 2009, 6:29pm

I’ve just come home from my local Morrisons, they have the above peas on special offer at £1 for two twin tub packs, or 25p per 150g portion. Top thriftyness indeed.

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