Pies

[sweetsal]

Does anyone have a good recipie for a beef pie? With a pastry base and top. Something simple if possible.

[Clanad]

This ones easy...

4 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons chopped onion
2 tablespoons chopped green pepper
1/2 cup diced celery
1 cup diced, cooked beef or pork or other meat
4 tablespoons flour
2 cups milk or meat stock
1/2 cup diced cooked carrots
refrigerator biscuits or homemade
PREPARATION:

Slowly brown onion, pepper, celery and meat in cooking fat, stirring constantly. Add flour slowly, stirring constantly, until brown. Add remaining ingredients. Heat thoroughly. Pour into shallow, well-oiled baking dish. Cover with biscuits. Bake in hot oven, about 450� F. for about 15 minutes.  Enjoy!

[nfn]

FROZEN puff pastry, 1lb diced beef, 1 onion, 1 bay leaf, handful of mushrooms, dash of worcestershire sauce, 1 beef stock cube.

Put the beef, chopped onion, bay leaf, sliced mushrooms and stock cube in heavy bottomed saucepan (pressure cooker is ideal). Add boiling water to just cover it all and cook slowly until meat is tender. REMOVE BAY LEAF. add a dash of worcestershire sauce and thicken gravy with gravy powder/granules. Leave to cool slightly.

Roll out pastry to line pie dish then using a holed spoon put meat mix in. wet outside lip of pastry and put pastry lid on. flute or press edges of pastry together with a fork and mark portions lightly with a knife and make a hole in centre of top pastry only to allow steam to escape, glaze.

cook in a fairly hot oven around 200C for about 20 mins, until pastry is brown.

Saved gravy can be served with the meal seperately.

For steak and ale, cook the meat mix in either a can of guiness or bitter, top up with a little water to just cover the mixture

[scoobysoo]

Here's a bit of a cheating but yummy method:

Tin of extra lean steak in gravy by John West

Frozen Puff Pastry

Bottle guiness or boddingtons

Mushrooms and onions

Cook mushrooms and onions, add meat and guiness and simmer until liquid reduces to a thick consistancy. Transfer to an oven dish. Put pastry on top and cook till brown.

Lush!!!