Recipe Weekend: Savory Dinner Pies: More than 80 Delicious Recipes from Around the World by Ken Haedrich

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Author and savory pie expert Ken Haedrich takes you on a global tour of dinner pies from food cultures across the world.

About:

Dinner pies have become a favorite go-to for one-dish recipes. Perfect your own crust or, dare we say, buy a pre-made crust and the variations are endless. Learn how to make Classic Americana Chicken Pot Pie, British Steak and Ale Pies, Swedish Meat Pies, Italian Easter Pie, and many more crust and no-crust versions of one of the world’s most prolific go-to dinners. Recipes for a range of crusts and make-ahead ideas are included along with how to use the almighty leftover to create pie masterpieces that are all your own!

With 75 recipes and amazing four-color photography, this is both a cookbook and an around-the-world tour of culinary traditions that can be incorporated into your own home kitchen weekly menu. Great for parties, families, Sunday night dinners, neighborly welcomes, holidays, and any-old-night-of-the-week dinners, and breakfasts and lunches—Savory Pies from Around the Globe offer something for every kitchen.

Review:

There is something in the fall and winter, that makes us run toward savory pieces, and this is the book that will let you take your normal recipes and amp them up, and find new ones to tempt your family. And you Will be tempted when you see the pictures that get your taste buds singing! The book starts with basic doughs and crusts to get you started, then gives you savory pie and turnover recipes, then moved on to little pies, tarts and gallettes, before moving on to quiches and their cousins, before getting to the familiar pot pies and and ends with cobblers, struedels and other wrapped goodies!  There are old favorites here that have little twists to them, and new takes on traditional recipes that thoroughly modernize them. this cookbook will be one our your new favs for the year!

Recipe:

This recipe is perfect for Christmas Eve, Christmas morning, or Christmas Brunch, or even New Year's Day!

About the Author:

Ken Haedrich is one of America’s most respected food writers and a recognized authority on baking, in particular, pie. He is the “Dean” of the popular website ThePieAcademy.com and the author of the best-selling book , along with more than a dozen other cookbooks, including The Harvest Baker and Maple Syrup Cookbook. Ken is a recipient of the Julia Child Cookbook Award and has been a regular contributor to Bon Appetit, Better Homes and Gardens, Eating Well, and many other publications. A native of New Jersey and a former Navy Seabee, he and his wife Bev make their home in Wilmington, North Carolina.