Ahhh .... the peas. Not petit pois note. No bleedin' breeding! On the topic of pies ... and yours does look nice and flakey.

We love pies but hate what you can buy so I thought I'd buy one of those little double pie makers to play with and make a stack of fillings for the freezer and put them into little Chinese Takeaway containers. One full container exactly equals two pies.

I've made a load of boeuf bourguignon fills (Ocado had mispriced sirloin steak a month or two back ie 2 for 1p and I bought a stack of it and froze it for stewing) and a stack of chicken with smokey streaky bacon and mushroom and Noily and fresh thyme and cream and we had the chicken yesterday.

I'm really pleased with the piemaker and now I know I can have a decent pie whenever I want. I'm making a "shepherds" filling in a few days.