Friday Pie-Day

Back in the day of free-flowing cash (or something like that), a few of my workmates and I used to go to Lloyds most Fridays for lunch as an end of week 'treat'. I use the word 'treat' loosely because it's Lloyds after all. At least two of us would always get a pie and thus, Friday Pie-Day was born. Sadly, since we've all tightened our purse strings, we haven't done this for ages now.

I had a day off work today so I thought I'd revive the tradition by attempting to bake my own pie. It's one of those magic-eye pies where you have to try and 'see' the hidden image...can you see what it is?



Ok, well actually, it's just my poor attempt to put the words 'Hungry Jenny' on top of the pie! I don't have a proper pie dish either and used my housemate's rectangular cake tin. So yes, it is a rather questionable-looking pie. It looks like a loaded brick.

But I think I've found a new Mission - to make the perfect Hungry Jenny pie. My amateur attempt above had pre-made shortcrust pastry so this will mean making the pastry from scratch too.

I'm still quite pleased with my first attempt though. It was yummy, but the pastry was a bit dry and I didn't have enough of it to encase the whole pie (as a REAL pie should be!).

But I'm now determined to become a pro at pie-making. Yes, and then dominate the world with Hungry Jenny pies...

Why didn't I think of this before?