MBE v tigs78 chicken and leek pie challenge

chatta

Rikki wrote:

I'm looking forward to seeing the photos of each stage.:D

Piece of advice.....wash hands after making pastry before picking up camera to take picture.:rotfl:

Everybody knows making pastry is best way to clean hands :eek:

Addiscomber

When washing hands after doing anything with flour, but especially pastry, it is best to use cold water, otherwise the the flour starts to cook and your hands get stickier, not cleaner. You can always switch to warm water once most of it has gone.

Hello

I am sooo looking forward to this. Laptop booked for Thursday all day and night.

jobbingmusician

mrbadexample wrote:

Well, something about the same thickness as cauliflower cheese sauce, I think. I can do that. I thought that was a roux sauce? Or is that what it's called when it's got cheese in? :whistle:

Yes, it's a roux sauce. Or a white sauce. The white sauce title means it's made with flour and fat, and doesn't require onions.

mrbadexample wrote:

So, if I start out the same as for the CC, fry bacon & onion, add flour, then milk until it goes "sort of gloopy" , then add the pre-fried chicken and leeks to the sauce? Just leave the cheese out (although one of the recipes has cheese in the sauce, I noticed, but I don't think that's what I'm after)?

You don't need onions, honest! (But read on....) I agree that cheese would be overkill.

mrbadexample wrote:

Ahhh...so should I completely substitute the onion for leeks? Obviously it'll be mainly leeks, but any of the onion family should work, right? I've got a few shallots too.....

I seem to have lost your bit about the leeks staying together. If you want them to stay in neat slices, you're right, it would be an idea to add them to the sauce later (with the chicken) rather than at the beginning. In that case I would put in a personal commendation for shallots, as you have them. Delicious in roux sauces!

mrbadexample wrote:

I think I've got my head round the sauce. :idea: :j Be afraid tigs, be very afraid.

You OK Tigs? I do think he's getting the idea (and I now realise he's got previously undeclared sauce-making experience! )

Aril

Hope you're both going to drop a slice of these pies off on the daily thread...the proof of the pie [adapted for my purposes!] is in the eating as they say and we shall need to carry out a taste test before delivering our verdict. Hope the cookoff goes well:rotfl: :rotfl:
Aril

mrbadexample

jobbingmusician wrote:

You OK Tigs? I do think he's getting the idea (and I now realise he's got previously undeclared sauce-making experience! )

Undeclared? :eek: Sorry, I thought everybody knew about my cauliflower cheese?

rchddap1

This thread has had me in giggles. Keep meaning to do a pie myself, but never quite get around to it. Perhaps your efforts will give me the encouragement I need.

As for sauce....my bash would probably involve grabbing a tin or two of chicken soup. Not exactly cooking from scratch, but my previous attempts at 'sauces' have been complete disasters.

jobbingmusician

mrbadexample wrote:

Undeclared? :eek: Sorry, I thought everybody knew about my cauliflower cheese?

Ummm yes.... a faint memory of your CC thread now you've reminded us, but you have to remember I am a) blonde, and b) ageing....:rolleyes:

jobbingmusician

rchddap1 wrote:

As for sauce....my bash would probably involve grabbing a tin or two of chicken soup. Not exactly cooking from scratch, but my previous attempts at 'sauces' have been complete disasters.

We have to teach MBE how to cook properly!

Having said that, if only Crosse and Blackwell didn't put msg into everything nowadays - their concentrated soups make excellent cheater pies with chicken added to them....

mrbadexample

jobbingmusician wrote:

We have to teach MBE how to cook properly!

Having said that, if only Crosse and Blackwell didn't put msg into everything nowadays - their concentrated soups make excellent cheater pies with chicken added to them....

:think: I wonder if anyone would notice if I pretended to cook the sauce and....:silenced: :whistle:

Off to Morrisons to have a good look round.....:D