Recipe Book: Nigel Slater's Real Food Buy the book here
Review: 4 stars for this one. It was very good, but it didn't blow me away.
I was impressed at how quick it was to prep (I use a mandolin to slice my potatoes and onion).
The pastry was very light and crumbly so unfortunately didn't stay in one piece when I transferred from pie dish to plate, hence my not so great photo.
For the sausage meat, I used Old English sausages as my butcher said these were the most herby ones that he had.
This recipe was originally supposed to be eaten with the silver surfers (in laws) who were coming over for tea but ended up as me and husband eating it at home and then taking the other two portions over to the hospital as my mother in law wasn't very well yesterday afternoon so their portions (with mushy peas) got tubbed up in takeaway tubs, wrapped in tin foil and then a nice big towel to keep hot and I took it over to the hospital - good job because they were really hungry by then. They really enjoyed it. Husband thought it was really tasty, me being a proper northerner however... I needed some Bisto gravy pouring on it!!! I served it with my homegrown garden peas (for me) and mushy peas for everyone else.
Aga conversion: I used the hotplates for the boiling the potatoes and frying the onions and sausage meat bits and then I transferred the pie to the roasting oven. I put it on the grid shelf on the bottom set of runners. In future I think I'll put it on the grid shelf on the floor of the roasting oven as the pastry got a little too brown. It only took 30 minutes to cook as my oven was running hot.
Will I make this again? Possibly.
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