MBE v tigs78 chicken and leek pie challenge

sry

Ooooh I'm invited for supper then, excellent.

I best look out an ice cream recipe, don't want to let the side down by going for the shop bought variety.:j :j

the_other_mce

Hello Mr BE and Tigs78 - just thought I'd let you know I have informed all the 'slatterns' about this thread so we could all look forward to a good [STRIKE]laugh[/STRIKE] I mean cookery lesson!
Good Luck with the challenge.....
ps - personally I'd opt for shop bought pastry

Ruby_Pudding

There's no shame in using shop bought pastry - the main thing is that you're making the pie which is more than many people seem prepared to do these days. You can always make your own pastry in a future challenge......:D

Addiscomber

How about one of these for your recipe?
http://www.waitrose.com/food_drink/recipes/recipesearch/Recipe/0404044-r03.asp
http://www.riverford.co.uk/recipes/recipe.php?recipeid=72&catid=3
http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/chicken-and-leek-pot-pie,1920,RC.html

Good to see you again, Mr Badexample, I was beginning to wonder if you had given up cooking.

bigmuffins

Hiya!
Have been looking forward to this! The ChocYogurt cake thread was great! :rotfl: :rotfl: Thanks mr be - cake recipe is fab too (I make it secretly when everyone is out, hide all trace of baking and cake for 3 days then I whip it out tada! Wouldn't make it otherwise! )

I haven't made a pie for years so will be taking notes.
Best of luck to you both!

Erm just a little thing - don't want to deflate your bubble tigs78 but.....

Anybody got any thoughts as to which tin/dish I should use?

The proper pie tin is 8inches accross not including the lip and 1 1/2 inches high. The ceramic dish is 9 inches accross and 2 inches high.



EDIT: Have resized the pic as it was ridiculously large

where I come from that's a sandwich cake tin ... pie dishes have sloping sides. Or am I in a minority here?

But a tin is a tin in my book - if it is approx the right size/shape I'll use it! I have been known to use cups/glasses to cut out pastry circles and have used bottles for rolling pins among other improvisations.....

Oh and my vote is for shop bought puff but hm shortcrust in case you're counting!

Did someone mention maltesers?:idea: Would there be enough for a malteser cake for pudding?:drool:

tigs78

bigmuffins wrote:

Erm just a little thing - don't want to deflate your bubble tigs78 but..... where I come from that's a sandwich cake tin ... pie dishes have sloping sides. Or am I in a minority here?

I thought it was a sandwich tin too, it has certainly never seen a scrap of pastry in it's life! I put 'pie dish' on a search on ebay and this came up, it's the same as mine...

bigmuffins wrote:

Did someone mention maltesers?:idea: Would there be enough for a malteser cake for pudding?:drool:

I'm definitely feeling the malteser cake but I think I might be getting a bit ahead of myself trying to make two new things in one day!

RacyRed

bigmuffins wrote:

Did someone mention maltesers?:idea: Would there be enough for a malteser cake for pudding?:drool:

Oooops!





Have you chosen the recipe yet? If not you might want to consider Jamie Oliver's recipe for Chicken and sweet leek pie as well.

mrbadexample

Addiscomber wrote:

How about one of these for your recipe?
http://www.waitrose.com/food_drink/recipes/recipesearch/Recipe/0404044-r03.asp
http://www.riverford.co.uk/recipes/recipe.php?recipeid=72&catid=3
http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/chicken-and-leek-pot-pie,1920,RC.html

Good to see you again, Mr Badexample, I was beginning to wonder if you had given up cooking.

Cheers, some good help there. I'm thinking about the one with bacon in, as bacon makes everything proper.
Whaddya think tigs?

tigs78

The bacon one (waitrose one) sounds good but it's massive, it says to use 6 chicken breasts!

Does anyone know whether we could just reduce the quantities proportionatly and whether it would still come out OK?

Murtle

full sympathy here I have to make a couple of pies....so am off receipe hunting!! Good luck girls and boys in your challenge

and yes you can reduce the quantities, just make sure you reduce the amount for all ingredients and by the same amount. I find it helpful to rewrite the ingredients list with the revised quantities otherwise I end up forgetting and putting in 4 times the amount of something!!!

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