Boozy Pie!

For the win!

The Fray Bentos (or Frayed Bentos as I like to call them) Boozy Steak & Ale pie! Lovely with a side order of chips/fries and a spalsh of vinegar. Go easy on the brown sauce if you happen to be a sauce fiend because you'll end up killing the tang of Ale thats in the gravy which would be an utter disaster. I love HP Brown sauce as much as the next mosher but prefer the taste of booze.
Come to think about it, this steak pie would be ideal to take with you to a festival as a more 'complete' meal than sticking to chesseburgers (not thats theres anything wrong with burgers) but due to the fiddly nature of the tin (a drunk man's nightmare) and need for an oven it will sadly get left on the shelf. Unless of course you cook it before leaving.
Nevertheless this is an excellent pie from Team Bentos. I heartily recommend it. Like Napalm Death & Pork scratchings.

Fish Pie and Chips

At the captain's table

I never imagined mixing fish and cheese would work. Ive thrown a lot of weird and wonderful foods together in experiments (one only has to read this blog for evidence of this) but I would never have dreamedup the fish pie had it been left up to me.
Frozen fish company Young's make a great one, called the Admiral's Pie which as it says on the box is Alaska Pollock fillets with mashed potato, butter sauce and cheddar cheese. Nuke it for 10 minutes in the microwave and your ready to tuck in! I always add chips because its not a particularly filling meal if served on its own. Some however might be put off by this as being too 'potatoey'. (Not a word? It should be!)

Music to eat to ~ Kyuss, Stone Sour, Green Day

The Baker Failed Me

The offending Pork Pie; to the bin Porky

I like Pork Pies when they're well made. Pie makers Melton Mowbray and the lesser known Haigh's, both make cracking Pork Pies that when added to a salad (or simply eaten with a cold pint of beer) it makes a lip smacking treat.
Alas not everyone has the magic Porker touch. Certainly Morrison's supermarket don't, if the Pork Pie I just had is anything to go by. After all the hulabaloo they make in the television ads over having in store bakers, I thought I was on pretty safe snacking ground. How wrong I was! It was very fatty, much more than usual for a pie, and the pastry also tasted of lard. And this is coming from a headbanger who loves things like bacon rind and the fat on steak. I couldn't finish it which is a first for me with pie.

Music to be sick to ~ Pink, Lady GaGa, Katy Perry

Keeping It Simple with Pie

Just add brown sauce

You cant get simpler than Pie and Chips. No chippy in Britain would be without it, and wives have cooked this classic meal for husbands since we first lifted a club. (Of course Woolly Mammoth went into them back then).
I always have a Minced Beef and Onion Pie but theres a fair choice on offer including Steak and Kidney, Chicken, Steak and Ale, even Curry if you fancy it.
Pies are a speciality in my hometowns Fish & Chip shops, and were the perfect food to keep me going that extra mile on a good binge. Its also the only food (apart from fish) that I will put vinegar on, as usually I cant stand vinegar.
Pies are also great in a sandwich (see below), although admittedly im the only one I know who has them this way.


Pie Sarnie

Music to eat to ~ The Almighty, Motorhead, Fear Factory.