Sunday 8 July 2012

HANDMADE PIE PRIDE

I never intended to become a chef when i was younger. Infact, i got unclassified in my cookery O level at school and trained as a nanny at college before realising that children actually really annoyed me!!!
To me, nowadays ,my job cooking is as much a handmade craft as is my hobby of sewing. Each dish i create contains as much passion, time and patience as any other craft.
Over the years my forte has become Handmade Pies. Infact it was one of my steak and ale pies that secured my job as head chef at Skylark Farm last year!!
So imagine my sense of pride this week when a lady popped into the cafe asking for 8 pies to take home to Oxfordshire with her and would pop into the local town to kill time whilst i cooked them for her.
And then, the following day, a very posh lady from the village came to see me with 2 large dishes. She was having a dinner party and could i make her 2 large pies , enough to feed 9 guests!
For me that was the best praise for my work that anyone could give and i was truely proud.

I now produce several pies per week for our farm shop.
Below are a batch of Chicken, Bacon and Leek straight from the oven. If you look closely you will see i even put a pastry chicken shape on top of each one.
And here are a batch of Steak and Ale. Look closely and see the pastry cow shape on!

So that's my week, now pop over to Handmade Monday blog hop to see what other passionate crafters have been up to this week

11 comments:

  1. Sound slike a very productive and successful weeek - well done. Love both the fillings of the pies you ahve made, and the look soooo nice. Hope you have a good week.

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  2. Gosh those pies look scrummy... love the pastry cows :) How long before we see by Royal Appointment... hee hee?

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  3. I love the chickens and cows on the pies! I think the attention to detail makes food (or anything else) extra special- it shows the care that's gone into it.

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  4. Congratulations! I can see how satisfying it must be to get people coming to ask you for pies. Judging by the care you take over the appearance they must taste scrummy!

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  5. The attention to detail is superb, and it's praise indeed that someone wanted to buy them for a dinner party. Well done x

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  6. Those pies look wonderful - just hope the lady who bought them for her dinner party credited you with the work and didn't pass them off as her own!

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  7. Your pies look delicious. I really like the animals on top. Have a lovely week. Ali x

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  8. Uh, this makes me really hungry ! I really agree that baking & cooking is as much art as sewing. I too bake & sew ( and make chocolates !) and always think about my baking as an extension of my crafting...

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  9. Those are some stunning pies!I love the animal shapes on the top-must've taken you ages!

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  10. It is always good when our work is appreciated you work very hard at what you do and deserve it. Those pies do look good.

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  11. No wonder you have people wanting to buy your pies, they look lovely. I like how you have topped them with a little animal.

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