Robert’s Cooking

[RobertNotBob]

Finally laid my hands on a Kmart pie maker and made the first pies with it last night for dinner. These are the smaller pies about 2/3 rd the normal pies.

Used butter puff pastry and egg glaze on top, filling was a left over Moroccan slow cooked lamb. Certainly is a great way to use left over food. We had a guest so made eight in total, ran out of pastry and filling.

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Tonight I will do the apple, pear and rhubarb pies we were suppose to have for dessert but ran out of pastry.

[RobertNotBob]

On Friday the granddaughter was here and I had over ripe bananas so decided on a banana bread. The recipe called for 180 degree temperature so set our oven at 160 c fan force which equals 180 c normal convection. I think it should have been 180 c fan forced to start with so will try that next time.

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A bit crusty due to the extra cooking time but I like the crusty outside.

Tonight Apple, Pear and Rhubarb pies. Cheers Robert

[BruceS]

Looks yummy Robert!!
I noticed bananas have dropped a lot in price so gotta go grab some more.
Our IGA had the little ones but I reckon they are better tasting anyway.
You been raiding Dot's rhubarb bush?

[Mrcoolabah1au]

Yes ok thanks

[Dot]

Looks yummy Robert!!
I noticed bananas have dropped a lot in price so gotta go grab some more.
Our IGA had the little ones but I reckon they are better tasting anyway.
You been raiding Dot's rhubarb bush?

Cheeky bugger, no one but on one gets near my rhubarb bush. The price of bananas was down to $1.99 at IGA yesterday but they didn't taste as sweet.
Robert I have a deep pie maker and I seem to not be able to get the right amount of filling to get an all over cooked top? any tips? You could do cherry pies and have with your cherry ice cream

[RobertNotBob]

I raided the rhubarb from my daughters place on Saturday and yes she was not home.

Dot i find the browning over top is the egg wash and i create a little hill with the filling then put the top pastry on. Do you give the top of your pies a wash with the egg? Did not think of the cherry pies but yes possibilities.

Picked up bananas at the Happy Valley foodland for $1 a kilo last week. I think this time when they raised the price because of the Quuensland floods people stopped buying so they have had to bring the price back down. Cheers Robert

[Dot]

I raided the rhubarb from my daughters place on Saturday and yes she was not home.

Dot i find the browning over top is the egg wash and i create a little hill with the filling then put the top pastry on. Do you give the top of your pies a wash with the egg? Did not think of the cherry pies but yes possibilities.

Picked up bananas at the Happy Valley foodland for $1 a kilo last week. I think this time when they raised the price because of the Quuensland floods people stopped buying so they have had to bring the price back down. Cheers Robert

Thanks Robert no I haven't used the egg wash trick, will next time.

[T1 Terry]

I found a brush with milk makes a nice crust finish, too lazy to beat up an egg and put that on top. My Coopers Stout Rye Sourdough bread that was part of my Taggerty Master Chef winning entry was glazed with the last bit of stout left in the bottles ... well part of the last bit, the rest I drank
Margaret made some great pies using Brian's (Homeless) 2 pie maker and cooked others in used pie foil dishes in the air fryer, they came out great.
Do you rate the K Mart well Robert? We looked at the one offered on Aldi special buys but for some reason Margaret rejected it, no idea why?

[RobertNotBob]

Hi Terry I have had no proplems with it and there are hundreds of different recipes you can use not just pies. They do about a 2/3 size pie compared to the usual size pie.

Would be interesting why Margret rejected the Aldi one. The Kmart one is cheap but people seem to be happy with them.

Chears Robert

[Greynomad]

was glazed with the last bit of stout left in the bottles ... well part of the last bit, the rest I drank

T1,
Don't you mean 'chewed'???