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Meat & Potato Pie Recipe Book: Hairy Bikers Complete Mums Know Best  Buy the book Review: DISASTER EPIC READ! I'll give this a 3 Star but it's not a true review to be brutally honest.... The saga: I'd decided to do a bit of a bake fest and started with this pie as the silver surfers were going to be coming over for tea and they do like quite traditional recipes, so I thought this would be a great recipe seeing as it's from a lady not too far away in Ilkley in Yorkshire, just over the border from me. I mean, Yorkshire people make great Pork Pies...what could possibly go wrong? What went wrong was me plus a slight bit of ambiguity in this recipe. NOTE - Dishing up time for this pie is 5PM. Here it goes.... I get up early on Wednesday morning to get down to the butchers to get my meat and bone ingredients. I get home and read the recipe...Oh no! I was supposed to make the stock for this the day before!! Bloody hell! So what do I do? Yep you guessed it

Sausage and Potato Pie 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