The giving up/cutting down alcohol thread part VI

castri09_2

1 day for me so far on day 2 today got a bit of a head ache got my bottle of water and some fruit .hope you are all fine and happy pancake day.

holliegarson

Morning everyone

Right am feeling positive today so am going for another AF day - out for lunch today with family which will be nice (their treat!!)

Other than that - going to make scrapbooks and pancakes with the kids - but probably not at the same time..............

I x

jo1972

Morning all,

14 FAFFs for me please Fay

HB, I also got my stardrops in my local Sainsbugs, good luck, as Lurks says apparently Wilks and Savers do it too

PBT, wooo a date good luck, where are you going?

Lurkio wrote: »

jo - how was your pie?

maman wrote: »

Jo, how was the pie???

Ahem.....

Ta da











:drool: :drool: :drool:

fedupandskint

Mmmmm! Nom nom nom!

Well done Jo, that looks great!

Can you tell me how you made it?

Lurkio

:drool: :drool:


is there any left? I'm on my way.......

That looks FANTASTIC!! :T :T :T

jo1972

fedupandskint wrote: »

Mmmmm! Nom nom nom!

Well done Jo, that looks great!

Can you tell me how you made it?

I blatently cheated, was intending on making own pastry but ran out of time due to playing solitaire *rolleyes* so picked up pastry in Mr T's, they had an offer, 2 for 2 quid so couldn't decide if I wanted shortcrust or puff pastry, so bought one of each shortcrust for bottom and puff for top.

Before going to Mr T's I did google some pie recipes and this is 'kinda' my take on a bechamel sauce...

This is basically what I did, though I have no measuring implements (sp?) so total guess work :cool: (thank god it worked!). Chucked about 50g butter in a pan and about 50g of flour (just tipped it out the packet, about 10% of a full 500g packet ), stirred that for a couple of minutes, not too hot cos it'll burn. Then I chucked in 'about' 150ml of milk, 150ml of double cream and 150ml of stock, season well, stir for a bit then take off heat. I had loads of chicken that I'd stripped off from my left overs from night before, chucked all that in. Then quartered half a pack of chestnut mushrooms and chucked them in. While that was cooling I did the pastry (or rather, unwrapped it ). Put shortcrust on bottom then, making sure chicken filling is cooled, put that in the pie then put the top bit of pastry on (the puffed variety ). Brush (or in my case teaspoon...) some egg wash on pastry, make a hole in the middle to let steam escape. Then cook on gas mark 4 (no idea of electric temp, sorry) for about an hour or so in my case as it was a very large pie :drool:. Insides are cooked so it's just a matter of making sure the pastry will be cooked through. I'm going to branch out and make my own pastry next time :cool:

HTH

40somethingmum

holliegarson wrote: »

Morning everyone

Right am feeling positive today so am going for another AF day - out for lunch today with family which will be nice (their treat!!)

Other than that - going to make scrapbooks and pancakes with the kids - but probably not at the same time..............

I x

Sounds like you are going to have a lovely day Hollie. Stay positive, hun

love

40Smxx

jo1972

Lurkio wrote: »

:drool: :drool:


is there any left? I'm on my way.......

That looks FANTASTIC!! :T :T :T

This is what's left....




I feel bad for cheating by using not only ready made pastry, but also using ready rolled :rotfl:

Oh, and 'ark at me telling sparkles how to make a pie like I'm Delia or summat :rotfl:

40somethingmum

Jo,

Well done on the pie .... it looks delish:drool::drool::drool:

40SMxx

Lurkio

jo1972 wrote: »

This is what's left....




I feel bad for cheating by using not only ready made pastry, but also using ready rolled :rotfl:

Oh, and 'ark at me telling sparkles how to make a pie like I'm Delia or summat :rotfl:

nowt wrong with ready made pastry... a perfectly acceptable shortcut. Jamie says so :cool:



Can you email the rest of that pie to me? :drool: :drool: