National Pie Day! A Review and Giveaway for 2 x copies of the book PIE! Plus Pie Recipes…..
National Pie Day!
A Review and Giveaway for 2 x copies of the book PIE!
Plus Pie Recipes…..
Apparently today, the 23rd January is National Pie Day, and although there seems to be a “Day” for every type of food, recipe and ingredient, I JUST had to celebrate today as I am a BIG fan of PIE, or should I say that in the plural, PIES! Last year I was sent a copy of a fabulous book, Pie by Dean Brettschneider, which is as the title hints, all about pies and it has rarely been out of my hands since receiving it. I have made numerous recipes from the book and I shall be showcasing them here, on the blog, throughout the year, but for today, I just wanted to introduce you to the book and also offer a FABULOUS giveaway as the PR who represent the publishers, Jacqui Small have offered TWO copies of this lovely book as prizes for all Lavender and Lovage readers! Firstly, let me run you through the chapters and layout of this book…..
Pie by Dean Brettschneider
Delicious Sweet and Savoury Pies and Pastries from Steak and Onion Pie to Pecan Tart
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Jacqui Small LLP (17 Oct 2013)
Book Description
Publication Date: 17 Oct 2013
RRP: £25
Join award-winning Global Baker and pâtissier Dean Brettschneider as he demonstrates the secrets to making truly melt-in-your-mouth pies. There is nothing more satisfying than tucking into a piping-hot, freshly baked pie, tart or quiche that has just come out of the oven. Whether you prefer savoury or sweet, humble or refined, small or family sized, this book contains a wide selection of recipes for them all. More than eighty of the most irresistible pastry classics and creations from around the world make this a global baking bible.
Bacon, Curried Egg and Ricotta Pie
Contents:
Introduction:
A rather lovely and very personal introduction from Dean about his memories and his love of pies.
The History of the Humble Pie:
A history of the word “pie” as well as other pie related facts. This section was written by Paul Hansen
Ingredients:
A very handy section where basic ingredients are shared, and a recipe for Dean’s Puff Pastry; the basic ingredient functions are discussed, such as flour, salt, water and butter and other ingredients such as eggs, nuts, baking powder, herbs, grains and seeds are also explored in relation to pie making.
Equipment:
A very useful and extensive section about equipment you may need in your pie making quest.
Meat Pies:
Recipes that caught my eye and some that have been made are: Mince and Cheese Pies; Spanish Chicken Pie; Sausage, Sun-Dried Tomato and Potato Tart; Bacon, Curried Egg and Ricotta Pie; Chicken and Cranberry and Camembert Pies
Seafood Pies:
Recipes that caught my eye and some that have been made are: Fish Pie with Leek and Chorizo; Smoked Salmon and Fennel Savoury Tart and Spicy Monkfish Pies
Vegetarian Pies:
Recipes that caught my eye and some that have been made are: Mushroom, Gouda and Goat’s Cheese Galettes; Asparagus, Lemon and Savoury Custard Tart; Tomato and Thyme Tarte Tatin; Wholemeal Spinach, Feta and Potato Pies; Gooey Leek, Potato and Vintage Cheddar Pie and Slow-Roast Tomato and Herb Tartlets with Feta
Not-Quite-A-Pie:
Recipes that caught my eye and some that have been made are: Pork, Prune and Sweet Apple Picnic Roll; Cornish Pasties; lamb, Harissa and Almond Sausage Rolls; Smoked Fish Empanadas; Fig and Goat’s Cheese Tart and Date, Apricot, Orange and Cardamom Flapjack Shortcake Tart
Sweet Pies:
Recipes that caught my eye and some that have been made are: Apricot, Almond and Honey Tart; Pear and Fennel Tarte Tatin; Cranberry and Apple Cobbler; Pecan Praline and Chocolate Tart; Pecan Tarts; Roast Pear and Blueberry Pie and Orange Blossom and White Chocolate Cheesecake Pie with Roast Rhubarb
Basic Recipes:
A selection of basic recipes, mainly pastry recipes that are required in making some of the recipes in the book, also the techniques that are required too. Recipes include: Sweet and Short Pastry; Basic Sweet Pastry; Chocolate Sweet Pastry; Gingerbread Crust Sweet Pastry; Sour Cream and Lemon Pastry; Toasted Walnut Short Pastry; Black Sesame Seed Short Pastry; Chilli Polenta Pie Crust; Fennel Pastry and Hot Water Pastry for Pork Pies. There are also recipes for different toppings, jelly, egg washes and glazes.
Acknowledgements:
Index
Gooey Leek, Potato and Vintage Cheddar Pie
Overall review and rating:
The fact that I have used this book extensively, taken it to bed to read and perused it in front of the TV tells you that I love this book! I like it for several reasons, it is all about pies, which are a favourite of mine, but the book also has some exciting and innovative recipes in it, with twists on classics that work. I love the matt finish inside and the photos are beautiful in an elegant rustic way. The extra chapters with basic recipes and help with equipment and techniques is very handy. Overall this is a book that is perfect for an experienced cook such as myself, as well as a beginner, so it spans a very large readership area. I have yet to meet a person who does not like a pie or a pasty, and if you are looking for something new, this is the book for you.
Lavender and Lovage gives this book a well deserved 5 stars
Wholemeal Spinach, Feta and Potato Pies
And now for MORE pies! Here is the link to my MANY pie recipes! Enjoy! And, don’t forget to enter the Giveaway below with a chance to win one of TWO Pie books! Karen
Lavender and Lovage Pie Recipes
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I like chicken pie.
My favourite pie has got to be chicken and mushroom with light flaky pastry that melts in the mouth.
Grasshopper pie. Definitely an old favourite for me!
my favour pie is traditional steak and kidney pie !!! you just cant beat it
Turkey/chicken with red peppers and a mushroom sauce! My mum makes it and it is delicious!
No contest, cherry pie served warm with sweetened marscapone.
There are so many! I would have to say Steak & Ale Pie is my favourite
I love cheese and onion pie 🙂
pork pie
I love steak pies 🙂
I like a few, including a type of corned beef pie as it were but I must admit that one you’ve shown at the top of this article looks & sounds delicious!
Steak and Guinness Pie, hearty and delicious, so warming on a winters day! x
I love chicken and mushroom pie
I love french silk pie
Apple and blackberry
my favourite has to be home made steak and kidney pie or game pie
Homemade Steak ‘n’ Ale pie
Karen these pies look outrageously tempting! Curried egg, gooey cheese and potato. You’ve set off my cravings xx
My favorite pie is double crust GRAPE PIE.
My mum’s game pie 🙂
Chicken pie and sweet pies all sorts!
I never knew about pie day. OH would love to know this and would love this book.
Gosh, any pie will suit, especially ricotta pie
apple pie 😀
chicken and mushroom pie
Every day should be Pie Day!
While I love Lavender and Lovage, I would like to recommend a recent blog discovery of mine, the pleasingly punning pie blog http://www.pierate.co.uk
I love chicken and mushroom pie!
Oh, forgot to say, my favourite pie is liver and bacon from Sweeney & Todd’s pie shop in Reading
good luck to the pie fanatics – looks like a great book!
rhubarb pie
Corned beef pie
Spicy three bean pie with feta cheese. Your little pies look awesome love the way you have folded them in little parcels.
Apple pie – yum! x
Chicken, bacon and mushroom pie.
Steak and Onion
Pork pie
This book looks fantastic Karen. I love pies and don’t make nearly enough of them. Homity pie is a favourite but I’m rather partial to mushroom and Cornish blue too.
My favourite pie is chicken, ham and leek.
I love chicken and mushroom pie x
Chicken pie.
I am torn between sweet and savoury… I love the classic lemon meringue pie but a good hearty mushroom, chicken and leek pie is amazing too!
steak and mushroom pie
Love the sound of this book… and your pies look so delicious too!
I have Pie and I really love it. It has grown on me as I have used it and there are so many more recipes I want to make, highly recommended.
Tough question! But if I really had to only choice one it would be a Braised Beef, Beer & Stilton Pie. Ouch, only one.
Mushroom
Pheasant, Brussels and bacon pie has been my favourite recently. Looks like a fab book.
Apple pie
I love any sort of sweet pie – apple or cherry are my favourites.
Steak, mushroom & Stilton!
I love loads of pies, esp ones made with puff oastry. But I made a lovely chicken and mango one with crumpled filo, that was lovely, as was spinach and smoked haddock with puff, mmmmmmm!
Mince beef & onion
cheese and onion
Chicken pie, yummy
Chicken and Mushroom
steak and kidney pie 😀
a nice steak and kidney pie
I didn’t know there was a UK pie day in January, the Americans do one on 3.14 i.e. 14th March. Love this book, I already have a copy.
I am drooling over the pictures of all those amazing pies, especially the wholemeal Spinach, Feta and Potato Pies. Would love to win this book and try baking more pies at home.
It’s hard to choose a favourite pie but it would probably have to be apple and blackberry.
An apple a day might keep the doctor away but a pie a day is much more fun!
Chicken and vegetable
I love Pecan Pie !
I love Steak and Kidney Pie 🙂
Wow, that’s a lot of comments comments to scroll through! My favourite pies are Tortiere au Carnard or Happy Duck Pies as they’ve become known round here!
I make then with my own Muscovy ducks, and every xmas I give a handful of pies away to my closest friends. They are crazy delicious, the meat is flavoured with nutmeg and makes your taste buds beg the entire time they’re cooking!
Delish!
Janie x
PS I cannot believe that National Pie day passed me by?!
Steak and kidney!!!
Blackberry and Apple pie
Coconut Cream Pie
Blackberry and Apple
Cheese and onion for savoury and Cherry for sweet!
I love fruit pies, and cherry is my favourite! 🙂
Jane x
I love mushroom and chestnut pie with herbs!
I love chicken pies 🙂
Good old steak pie x
mmmm..chicken pie
Oh yum, hi veggie pies look good.
It’s got to be chicken and asparagus! yummmmmmm
Steak & kidney pie!
……….chicken and mushroom
Oh wow those photos are making me drool ! Porky pies are my fav alongwith chicken n mushroom ! How I would LOVE to win that BOOK ! The cover PHOTO is stunning!
I love apple pie!
Steak Pie is my favorite ♥
Cheese and onion pie
Steak and stilton xx
cheese and onion
Apple & Blackberry
mince beef and onion
Game pie
Butter pie – it’s as scrummy as it sounds! I think it’s a northern (Lancashire) thing. Mainly onions and potatoes in pastry.
I love steak and kidney pie 🙂
pork pie
Ooh I’m a traditional girl – I love apple pie!
corned beef and potato pie, mmm, there’s an idea…
chicken and mushroom pie
Steak and Mushroom
cheese and onion
Steak and kidney
Beef and Ale
Steak and ale, mmmm delicious , thanks for the chance, xxx
Cheese and potato pie!
Apple.
3.14159265359
Slow cooked steak and gravy pie
Meat and potato, can’t beat it!
Chicken and mushroom
Butternut Squash & Stilton
CHICKEN AND HAM
Chicken and leek
Meat and potato pie
Got to be chicken and ham
my hubbys steak pie spoilt little madam i am
chicken and mushroom pie
Chicken, tarragon, sage and white wine pie with shortcrust base and puff top!
Steak and Kidney
Game & ale pie.
Spanakopitta! 🙂
cherry!!! 🙂 yum yum
Steak Pie
Cheese and onion :
Chicken tikka pie.
Chicken and Mushroom – no contest!
chicken and mushroom pukka pie!!
steak and cheese with a little pepper
Chicken and leek is my favourite
Corned beef pie Home made too actually made one this evening
Mushroom and stilton pie
Steak and kidney from a shop near where I live
Ham, cheese and leek
Steak and Kidney
Spinach and ricotta pie with onions, mushrooms, nutmeg and garlic.
Has to be a good old steak and ale pie with a beautifully flaky crust!
Steak and mushroom, but I might be convinced to change to those spinach feta and potato ones!
chicken and mushroom 🙂
Savoury- Chicken and Asparagus, Sweet- Apple and Blackberry (both homemade of course)
Beef and Ale pie
Corned beef like i had in new york
Apple pie with custard
Steak and Ale (Home made of course!!)
i love a fish pie usually salmon
Apple pie
Favourite pie” Chicken ,ham, mushroom and leek with a few cranberries thrown in.
Apple pie.
Cheese and onion pie
Apple and Blackberry
chicken and mushroom
Chicken, gammon and leek 🙂
steak and kidney x mmmmm
Savoury – steak and kidney; Sweet – apple pie
Love pies.xxx
apple pie
Steak and ale! 🙂 x
Cheese and Onion
chicken and leek pie yummmmmmmm :p
Apple pie
Has to be good old steak and kidney pie
My wife loves all things cooking
spending hours working from scratch
I would praise her end result to the skies
If she were to win this book on pies
Cheese, Onion & Potato Pie is my favourite
Apple pie with cheddar cheese
My boyfriends loves pies so this would be great 🙂
Steak pie
Chicken & Mushroom
steak and kidney
Steak and Black Pudding Pie…. MMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Pecan Pie!
A good old meat pie any day!
Chicken and vegetable
a good old fashioned homity pie
Chicken and leek!
You can’t beat good old fashioned apple pie !
Oooh that’s tough feta and spinach
Steak and kidney yum yum
Macaroni Pie
Chicken, ham and leek x
cheese and onion for me
Goats cheese and roast veg
Always chicken and mushroom.
Corned beef and potato because it reminds me of my grandma
Steak and kidney
Anything with potato in.
Scouse Pie
Shepherd’s Pie!
Chicken Pie
I love apple pie served warm with ice cream
cherry pie
steak and ale
chicken pie is my current favourite however ive got a recipe for ham hock pie which i think im going to love when i get around to making it.
I love a good fish pie!
Rhubarb and Apple
Cheese and Onion.
chicken and mushroom
steak pie
steak and ale
Chicken and leek pie!
Chicken
Chicken and mushroom
chicken and mushroom
Chicken Pie
Chicken and mushroom
It’s got to be Corned Beef and Potato, not the classiest pie ever but so so tasty (especially when my Granny makes it with her extra crumbly shortcrust pastry)
Chicken and leek pie
cheese and onion
salmon, pea & mint tart
Apple and Raspberry pie x
a pork pie
Good old steak and kidney.
Chicken and Bacon Pie
chicken and mushroom 🙂
Mmmmm chicken and leek 🙂
I love steak & onion pie & I love lots of vegetables to eat along with it 🙂
chicken and mushroom
My Nana used to make pasties (which are still a type of pie – right?) with mashed potatoes, onion and corned beef … they are my favourite although it’s been years since I had one x
apple pie!
Tradition mince meat pie from the pie mash shop!
Steak and Ale…..yum!!
Chicken & leek pie
Steak & ale pie
chicken, bacon tarragon
Rhubarb and apple pie!
chicken and vegetable 🙂
Steak & guinness
Beef and onion pie the best!!!
chicken and mushroom or steak
Cherry pie 😀