The first dish made on Saturday was a hot spicy chicken dish, the marinade/sauce made in seconds and the chicken baked in 40 mins. Good, quick and easy and served with ice cold beer as Mr Slater suggested.
The second dish , made today was the pie. A chapter entitled "Rolling pastry" and lots of advice on rolling a butter rich pastry. This pastry proved to be very difficult to roll out, not so bad for the base were a bit of patching up goes unnoticed but more difficult to do the lid. Still I did end up with a reasonable looking pie.
Pies are never my favourite desert but I love peaches. The pastry was crumbly, buttery soft and almost like shortcake with a hint of lemon. The filling of peaches still firm with a hint of orange zest.
Not sure I like my peaches in pie , definitely prefer them au natural. Gave slices of pie to various members of the family and it had a mixed verdict. Half, including my husband, loved it, and the other half, like me, didn't think peaches should be in a pie. Try it and see what you think.
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