“When someone asks if you’d like cake or pie, why not say you want cake AND pie?” Lisa Loeb
Birthdays. We’ve all got them and yesterday was mine. However after celebrating to excess on Saturday evening there were to be no lavish meals on Sunday. So what to eat when feeling slightly delicate and terribly lazy?
The bright blue sky and sunshine helped get me on my way down to Altrincham Market to see what might feature on the menu.
So off we went, The Hungry Mrs, TKA and me.
Having wandered the market hall, tried a few samples and purchased some Tiresford Guernsey Golden Brie we stumbled on an outside stall with an aromatic air. We had found The Real Thai-Pie Company. A husband and wife team from Lancashire with a family tradition of baking pies and a love of Thai food. Dean handed over a sample of the Beef Massaman curry pie and
it was not only delicious but just what the hangover doctor ordered. Dean went on to explain that all the food was sourced locally and that the pair made their own curry pastes for the fillings, there was a Red Thai Chicken Curry to sample as well.
That was it. On the eve of National Chip Week birthday dinner would be Thai Beef Pie and chips.
Proper homemade chips with a glass-like outer and soft fluffy inner.
What can I say? Simple, quick and very tasty.
I’ve spent birthdays in nice restaurants, eating expensive food but on this occasion, a twisted pie and chips was perfection. Well I am a northerner after all.
Dean at The Real Thai-Pie company can be contacted via e-mail at Dean_haworth@yahoo.co.uk
Take it easy
THM
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