One hundred days of pie No.34 The mystery of the Purbeck Smokie

2017-06-15T15:29:07+01:00August 31st, 2014|

purbeck1Yesterday I revisited my trip to Corfe Castle to get a Bridport Gourmet Pie. That wasn’t all that I picked up on my travels there. You see, the small general store at the foot of the castle, Clealls (which I believe has since shut down) had a wide range of pies and my natural gluttony meant that there was no way that I was stopping at just one.

However, the second purchase was no ordinary pie. […]

One hundred days of pie No.33 Bridport Gourmet Pie

2017-06-15T15:29:07+01:00August 30th, 2014|

corfecastleAs I’m a third of the way through this little appetiser now, I perhaps need to iterate that the pies featured in this blog are not necessarily the best 100 I had, and they are featured in NO PARTICULAR ORDER as they say on those cheap gameshows you people seem to like watching.

They might be, they might not. I just dip into my pie archives and see what comes out…..if you want the full story […]

Walking up Corfe Castle chomping on a Purbeck Smokie

2017-06-15T15:29:02+01:00March 13th, 2014|

bluevinney1June 2012 saw your correspondent eat a very posh pie with a double digit price in an Oxfordshire village and then nipping to the even posher deli around the corner for a growler to polish off proceedings.

With a few days to spend in Dorset, I ventured all the way as far as Yeovil to buy a pie from a baker’s revelling in the deligthful name of The Dutch Oven.

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