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Default West Country Pie

On Apr 14, 8:34*am, Janet > wrote:
> *I'd never heard of this until this week.
>
> *Our local council is having a campaign to reduce food waste and
> distributed a little cookery book *which contains this recipe
>
> http://ni.lovefoodhatewaste.com/node/3958
>
> * *Which I made yesterday. It's easy cheap and tasty, will make it
> again.
>
> * *I used one each of onion, apple and leek. Thought two apples might be
> too much for the pie case. Used milk not yoghurt. Added some mixed
> herbs.
>
> * *I'd never made an olive-oil pastry before and to begin with it did
> not seem promising. However, as you mix the ingredients they easily
> blend and firm up, and after chilling (as long as it took to make the
> filling) *it was rollable, just slightly stickier than my usual
> butter/lard pastry. However, incredibly quick to mix the dough and ideal
> for anyone who struggles with pastry making. The resulting pastry case
> was pleasantly light and crispy, does taste distinctly of olive oil.
> This may reflect the kind I use (EVOO).
>
> * *Janet UK


Looks like quiche to me, only with root veg.

N.