I notice that our friends over in the United States
associate pies with sweet things not savoury.
My wife mentioned that I should do a post on the
annual New Zealand
pie competition where pies from all over the country are brought together and
judge by supposedly people who know a good pie when they see, smell and taste
one.
The competition has both savoury and sweet pies and this
year the winner was a Lamb Cutlet and Kumara (sweet potato) pie.
This ugly looking pie with a bone sticking out of the top of
the pastry apparently was quite tasty. Sorry but no! No pie has a bone in it
that is just plain wrong. It is totally disgusting and those judges should be
shot.
One of the judges is the New Zealand Masterchef judge and we
often hear him and other top chefs berating contestants for putting something
on a plate that you can’t eat.
Shame on you Simon!
A Kiwi favourite is mince/steak and cheese pie but there are
lots of other options steak and mushroom, steak and kidney, venison in red wine
gravy, pork pie, chicken pie, chicken and vegetable pie, steak and potato
topped pie and the list goes on.
A meat pie is hand food and having a bone and a sprig of
rosemary does not constitute a real pie. That of course is just my opinion what
is yours?
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