The first recipe to catch my eye was a very simple one for Ham, Leek and Cider Pan pie - all cooked in the one pan, so very little washing up. As there were only two of us, I didn't splash out on a gammon joint, but bought a couple of steaks instead - unsmoked here, which is unusual for us as we always have smoked gammon or bacon by preference.
Simple ingredient - carrot, leek, the gammon, a potato and some fresh thyme from the garden.
The leeks were chopped and fried in butter, then in went all the rest of the ingredients, and fried gently for a few minutes.
Then, in with a spoonful of flour, and a can of cheap old Lidl cider. This was then all simmered for around half an hour - the recipe said to add creme fraiche at this stage, but I added that right at the end of this stage.
The pie filling, still in the cooking dish was topped with a suet crust pastry - the easiest pastry in the world to make
Unusually, the cooking of pastry carried on on the stove top, with a tight fitting lid on top - I popped it all into a hot oven for 5 minutes right at the end to brown it off.
The pastry came out quite light and flaky, and was delicious - we just served this with broccoli as there was already plenty of veg in the pie filling. For something so simple, this was absolutely delicious, and will become a bit of a favourite in this house
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