Wednesday, 12 August 2009

Happy Little Hand Pies

Today I made some happy little hand pies inspired by a recipe in 501 Bento Box Lunches: 500 Unique Recipes for Brilliant Bento for "Bridies" (described in the book as Scottish meat pies).


I made a vegetarian version using what I happened to have in the cupboard and fridge - yellow split peas, carrots, garlic, onions, mushrooms cooked in vegetable stock and flavoured it with a good dollop of marmite.
They can be savoury or sweet, are delicious hot or cold and you can freeze them before baking which makes it a good recipe to do in bulk.


Cameron was very impressed, he thought they were very cute and I'm inclined to agree - although I think I'd pay more attention to detail next time, I'm not good with the fiddly stuff. I might make them larger too so the veg mixture to pastry ratio was slightly more healthy!
When I saw the one that had leaked the gravy mixture out of it's mouth I thought that berry pies would be an awesome idea for halloween treats - you could manipulate them to leak purple juice in quite a gory way!

3 comments:

  1. fab packed lunch food, love what you are doing with the bento idea :)

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  2. They're lovely! Your veggie version sounds delicious :0)
    Angel is very impressed and wants to make some tomorrow, although I have a feeling she'll go for sweet fillings. X

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  3. They look fab and sound yummy :-)

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Looking forward to hearing from you :o)