Monday recipe: steak and ale pie
December 14th, 2009
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It’s one thing to dip into a huge pie dish, cracking the crust and serving it out to everyone around the table. It’s an entirely other thing to receive a pie all to yourself and taking greedy pleasure in flaking the pastry into the meaty sauce and appreciating the sudden blast of steam.
Steak and Ale pie is one of my favourites. Like all one pot dishes it is simple to prepare and, if you are familiar with the process, almost an unthinking act. You should be spending no more than 20 minutes cooking it and then that’s it, your job is to let the oven melt it into submission over the course of two and a half hours. Read more…
