Ha it’s all the same though, just a different shape. The pies too
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Love short crust but give me mental heart burn. I have to have a gavisgon chaser with a proper pie.
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Get a couple of chicken breast slice em into decent sized bits (you can decide what you’re into)
Chuck them in a ziploc back then add a tablespoon of plain flour, pinch of salt, pinch of fresh cracked black pepper, some mixed herbs and a bit of thyme (fresh if you’ve got it)
Shut the bag (obviously) then shake fuck out of it and bang it in the fridge for half an hour or so to rest
Get a heavy bottomed pan, medium heat, nob (snigger) of butter and a splash of oil.
Chuck in half a diced onion (until it softens) then lob in a couple of diced rashers of bacon (streaky or back is fine, smoked is better than unsmoked)
Fry it til the bacon is cooked
Then chuck in the floury chicken and the remaining seasoned flour in the bag
Move it around until the chicken has browned a bit, you should have the flour sticking on the bottom of the pan a bit so make sure the heat isnt fucking raging or itll burn and be grim. Get a shot of marsala or a decent splash of it. Chuck it in
Give it 20 seconds of bubbling like fuck then bang in a pint or so of stock (chicken or veg is fine) and a bay leaf
Lower the heat and simmer for 20 minutes (the flour will thicken the sauce up but if you want thicker sieve a bit more flour in gradually
Line a pie dish with shortcrust pastry (because its better) fill your dish up, chuck a lid on it, stab the top and egg wash it then oven for 25-30 minutes on 180 Fan and you’re set
(You can put mushrooms in you fancy it when you do the bacon and you can chuck some frozen peas in with the stock if you’re feeling posh)
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Same, meat and potato pies and other savoury pastries have me reaching for the Rennie.
Tell you what’s annoying, is how they’ve put them in blister packs in a large box, much more convenient when they were less than a quid and rolled up in foil and paper.
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Anyone up for eating one of these?
No. You would need a flock of them to get a decent meal.
Good luck trying to get one. You can still eat them if someone catches it and makes it for you but it’s illegal to sell it.
Ive eaten some weird shit in France but that’d top it
Whole as in it still has its shit tubes in there?
Yes.
The practice was to capture it, stab its eyes out with skewers, keep it in a cage and force feed it so it grows 4x the size.
Then you eat it with a cloth over your head which is said to keep the aroma all over your face for max indulgence.
Totally fucking mental.
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I’m glad we voted for Brexit now.
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You should see the look on people’s faces here when I tell them haggis is dope. Haha.
I wouldn’t eat ortolan but then again I don’t even eat chicken these days.
I ate horse spleen in Morocco though. It wasn’t all that.
That sounds bloody awful. Which means its probably delicious.
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It wasn’t bad, just not very interesting.
I love eating cholera. 
You boil it in cognac live the same way you cook lobsters. But with cognac.
Apparently when the bones inevitably stab you in the mouth the blood adds to the flavour…
Ah the French
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I’m starting to understand veganism.
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You guys know about boudin, yeah?
Boudin noir is fucking amazing
Black pudding?
Curious. What changed your mind?
Ever been to the Jugged Hare?
Their signature dish is basically a whole diced hare, slow cooked in wine with blood added at the end. It’s good.
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