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The naming of the pie

March 13, 2016 by Sarah Pettegree in Pork Pies, Recipes

I'll keep this brief.

Once in a while I find myself involved in a conversation about what a pie actually is. 

Picture the scene. I invite you round for a bite to eat. I make a classic white sauce, season it, add some chopped parsley, perhaps some lemon juice. Then I fold in some white fish and probably some glorious smoked fish from Cley Smokehouse. I'll have made this in my blue Le Crueset casserole. I'll top the fish with mashed potato, run a fork over it in a hither and thither pattern to make some mini peaks and dot with butter in the hope that the mini peaks with go bro

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March 13, 2016 /Sarah Pettegree
Pie, pork pie, fish pie, shepherds pie, British Pie Week, Pie definition
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Kimchee

March 09, 2016 by Sarah Pettegree in Cooking, Recipes

Kimchi (kimchee and various other spelling variations) is cropping up all over social media at the moment, and I'm sure it'll be in the cookery pages imminently. I hereby declare you to be at the cutting edge of the zeitgeist. And if you give making it a go you'll be even more so.

It's simple preserving of vegetables using lacto fermentation, which for some reason isn't really in the British cookery repertoire, we seem to favour sugar and vinegar in our funny old medieval way. But most of the rest of the world does some form of it, using naturally occurring "good" bacteria, in the same way as yoghurt or cheese does (notably sauerkraut). So

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March 09, 2016 /Sarah Pettegree
Kimchi, Kimchee, recipe, recipes
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Marry me

February 04, 2016 by Sarah Pettegree in Pork Pies, Celebration

If not now, then when? And well... 
Who's honestly going to say no to your marriage proposal, with this?

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February 04, 2016 /Sarah Pettegree
Pork Pies, Celebration Pies, Leap Year
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My currently in-use cook books

Bray's Cottage Pork Pies
January 26, 2016 by Sarah Pettegree in Cookbooks, Cooking, Recipes

Let's play cookbook snap

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January 26, 2016 /Sarah Pettegree
Cooking, Recipes, Books
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White House Farm Pick Your Own, Sprowston, Norwich →

White House Farm
January 25, 2016 by Sarah Pettegree in Norwich, Stockists, Shops

This board - it sums The White House Farm up so well.

Friendly, and just on the right side of quirky and fun. A bit of trendy grey and rust, but it was lying around anyway, rather than tracked down somewhere in...

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January 25, 2016 /Sarah Pettegree
Norwich, Shops, White House farm, Sprowston
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