A slothful chicken pie

I really questioned whether or not to post this. I first cooked it back in October as part of my review of Jamie’s 30-Minute Meals and then didn’t have time to write it up. I had all but resolved that the moment had passed. But then walking home from the office today, as my face started tingling from the cold and my fingers were freezing through my gloves, I knew exactly what the perfect antidote would be and I decided that you all need this recipe for the quickest and easiest chicken and mushroom pie in the world.

Jamie’s spinach and feta filo pie

You know sometimes you look at something in a cook book which looks delicious but you know that if you recreated it at home it would look nothing like the pretty picture in the book? Well when I saw the spinach and feta filo pie in Jamie Oliver’s new book I thought exactly that. But lo and behold, I cooked it and it looked exactly like the carefully styled picture in the book. And it tasted damned good too.

Haddock, Leek and Parsley pie

Now the winter has well and truly set in, I am really craving some hearty winter warmers and there is nothing so warming as a good ol’ pie, with pastry, served with buttery peas! It’s such a delight to set one down on the table and see the glee in your fellow diners’ eyes!

My sister and I made this fish pie following Nigel Slater’s recipe last week. It was the first time I’d cooked something out of Slater’s Real Cooking book. It was a raging success – even my husband who ordinarily doesn’t like fish much ate it all up! And look how pretty!