On Sun, Jan 3, 2016, at 03:57 AM, Mark C wrote: > Mince pie... It's been getting harder and harder to find mince pies > around here but this year I found one that actually included meat - in > this case chuck roast. Found it in an Amish bakery in Indiana. I think > its the first time I've had genuine "mince meat" pie and it was very > good!
One of the things I found strange when I visited the US in 2013 was the total absence of savoury-type pies. In Aus & NZ, every bakery in every town will have a selection of meat pies - basic steak, steal & mushroom. steak & onion, chicken, etc. The better bakeries will have speciality selections - I've seen goat, camel, buffalo, smoked salmon, kangaroo & crocodile, for example. I'm not a big pie eater but I would have killed for an occasional steak pie for lunch during our travels around the South-west. Different cultures - different cuisines... Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > On 1/2/2016 1:11 AM, John Francis wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 02, 2016 at 05:04:23PM +1300, David Mann wrote: > >> I think I must have had the most boring NYE of the lot of us. I did > >> absolutely nothing special and went to bed at the usual time. I haven't > >> bothered with the midnight thing for a few years now. It'll be midnight > >> somewhere in the world throughout the whole day so there's no need to stay > >> up :) > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Dave > > We pretty much match you for that. > > > > I never work between Christmas and New Year (with one exception). > > This year my wife chose to take a couple of weeks off to recharge > > after a hectic last few months of the year, so we spent the whole > > two weeks just lazing around the house doing nothing much except > > playing games or watching movies. > > > > We don't have any family out here (my brother lives in Texas, but > > apart from that almost all our relatives are back in England), so > > Christmas day itself isn't a big thing. We do still cook ourselves > > a traditional turkey dinner, and we make lots of other nice items > > (mince pies, veal ham and egg pie, Dundee cake, etc.) to snack on > > during the off-work break. > > > > On New Year's Eve we did consume a bottle of champagne-in-all-but- > > name over the course of the evening, but we didn't bother to stay > > up until midnight. > > > > > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -- -- http://www.fastmail.com - Same, same, but different... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
