Thread: Your favourite comfort food(s)

Use 2 x weight self-raising flour to 1 x Suet with a pinch of salt . Add cold water to mix and you have the best pastry for meat pies. Use an egg cup upside down in the centre to stop the pie sagging and touching the meat...as this will make the pastry go soggy.

Brush as you would normal pastry with a mixture of egg and milk to get the browning and use the normal temps of 200 for 25 - 30 mins.

http://www.passiondelivery.com/colle...es-lard-400g-1

I'm assuming suet is the same as lard...

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Do you remove the peel before you eat the banana or take it whole?........

Real men like me and Butters take it whole, baby!

Originally Posted by Neverna

I ate a "Lady Pie" this week. The packaging said it was "Aussie". Is that your wife's product, LT?

Lady Pies is owned by a very nice Aussie lady in Phuket. She's been making them for a long time, since before the Tsunami. If you go to her shop/factory in Phuket and buy one straight out of the oven, they're good. Frozen then reheated, not as good. But, they are still as good or better than anything else found in supermarket freezers.

I actually had a few left in my freezer, but binned them once Tinnies opened in Jomtien. His pies aren't cheap, about twice what most others are asking, but they're the benchmark.

Originally Posted by CSFFan

I'm assuming suet is the same as lard...

Not even a close second mate....

Originally Posted by Troy

Not even a close second mate....

I honestly don't know...I've only ever used Crisco in making pastries...

5^^^ I have the benchhmarks mate Headworx,

Lets do a taste test against Tinnies and see who wins?

Great to have your feedback either positive or negative and I will fund it.

Suet Pastry video...this is using plain flour and baking powder rather than self-raising....



My Nan and mum never used anything but Atora...I followed suit.

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

Lets do a taste test against Tinnies and see who wins?

Well I've asked you more than once where I can go to buy your Missus's pies, with no response. It'd be very easy for you to check Tinnies pies though, his shop is easy to find and is as good as any pie shop you could find in Oz. The owners name is Michael, and he's almost always at the helm to chat with (he's a very nice guy). Try his roast lamb pie, or a Tasmanian curried scallop pie. Along with his Aussie meat pies, steak pies, sausage rolls, etc. They're all easily as good as anything you can find in Oz, he won awards down there and would here too if there were pie contests!. His Thai wife is a pastry chef too, she lived and worked in Oz at his pie shop. So this is no "let's have a crack and see what happens" business, it's a full blown successful pie shop from Oz transplanted to Jomtien.

Oh, have a custard tart or vanilla slice for dessert while you're there, they're ridiculously good . So try it out and let me know what you think.

Originally Posted by Pregomeister

Your favourite comfort food(s)

Macaroni & Cheese...Kraft Dinner, as it's commonly known...Season to taste...


Grossly overpriced in Thailand, of course...

That suet pastry is a short pastry. OK for the English style pork pie, but not the Antipodean beef gravy pie.....IMHO.
I prefer flaky pastry for pies.

Bacon- bacon added to anything almost always makes it better.

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

There are more then 20 places selling my wifes pies

Ok, just give me the name of half a dozen of them so I can figure out which is easiest to get to and I'll go try one then give an honest report.

And I'm not Michael!. As much as I love cooking, perfect flake pastry (or any pastry for that matter) is way beyond my very basic kitchen skills.

Originally Posted by Pregomeister

Bacon- bacon added to anything almost always makes it better.

Ooh, yes. How can i have forgotten nice crispy bacon.

And haggis... with neeps.

And hot chocolate with a big dollop of double cream on top.

Originally Posted by Headworx

Ok, just give me the name of half a dozen of them so I can figure out which is easiest to get to and I'll go try one then give an honest report.

Anywhere in Bangkok that sells them that i can visit today LT?

Heres my comfort food from yesterday



10 hours sleep i got off that

Originally Posted by patsycat

And i love crispy duck in those little pancakes.... I could eat them forever.

Likewise

Keeping the theme of Chinese food: Lemon Chicken

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Heres my comfort food from yesterday



10 hours sleep i got off that

Irish pub?

^Yeah Dill, where is that?. Both plates are sold 10's, outstanding looking comfort food at its very best.

Originally Posted by Headworx

Ok, just give me the name of half a dozen of them so I can figure out which is easiest to get to and I'll go try one then give an honest report.

All on the Darkside mate including Maya's Cafe, Moonies Kitchen, Blue Dolphin, Nifty's Bar, Lucky Time Bar, Billabong Bar, Route CC Bar, Blue Moose Bar, Star Books Cafe, Drop Inn Bar to name a few but I will be in the Walkabout Creek Bar today on the corner of 3rd Road and South Pattaya Road for the League Grand Final.

At Half Time I am going to put some Pork Pies on the bar as free snacks.

At full time the boss is putting on some free hamburgers.

I should be there around 12.00 noon and I can bring you some frozen samples to take home if you have the time to drop by. Would love to receive your honest feedback.

I will PM you my contact details.

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Anywhere in Bangkok that sells them that i can visit today LT?

Sorry mate not as yet but should be soon.

Im popping down to Pattaya in a few weeks LT for my daughter birthday. Gonna treat her to Centara Mirage with the built in water park.

I will make sure i come and see you this time.

Im lookin for a good home for my unicorn, if you want her too


Oh and it was the new Dubliner with the cottage pie and cherry cheesecake. They have a nice food menu in there now, plus it doesnt stink like a sewer anymore.

Might try their sunday roast later

Comfort Food?

Pizza, Beer and a sexy girl (making a pizza base)



and



Shell anyone?

It would have to be a Ruby Murray.

Seekh kebabs, naan bread, rice and pretty much any curry off the menu (apart from a korma).

Poppadoms, the full set of pickles and a pint to kick things off, of course.