Grumpy Vs Grumpie

Now my parents don’t really understand my blog (it’s more than probable they won’t see this post for weeks) but they do understand food.

When I was given some Grumpie Lamb, potato & mint pies from the Two Brothers Foods stand at the Porthleven Food & Music festival to try out and blog about, well, there really was only one person fit to help me out; my favourite grumpy old man.  My Dad.

From the outside, they looked pretty great, I really liked the cute little lamb face in the pastry (though my Mum thought it looked like a skull, so I’ll leave you to make up your own mind on that one).  We all agreed, however, that the pastry looked cooked to perfection, this pie was eaten cold so there was no chance of me accidentally burning their perfect gold crust!

Grudgingly (as I had to photograph) I let Dad make the first cut.  It was pretty tense… would there be enough filling? Would the filling be too watery and just spill out everywhere? WHO KNEW PIE WAS SO DRAMATIC?

Alas, our fears were for nothing, there was plenty of filling.  Or, as my favourite Grump said, ‘looks full’.

Please take a moment to appreciate the beauty of a pie with the perfect pastry to filling ratio…

Even my Mum agreed and if you can get the Mum approval you can breathe a sigh of relief.

Then we got to do the fun part: Eating the pie.

From this point on it was pretty hard to get anything more out of Dad apart from ‘mmmmm’, ‘yum’, and other incomprehensible words.  Though he did find a little bit of gristle but nothing to write home/ a blog about!

However the pie was great.  Lamb and mint is not something I would ordinarily choose but it was delicious, I’ve never tasted a pie that had such a refreshing after-taste and not in a bad way; in a really, really good -I need to eat more of this pie- way.  I think the combination of un-greasy pastry and refreshing mint was the main reason that we’d eaten the whole thing before we knew it.

So overall, the pie had substantial pastry and filling (as Dad so elegantly put it; ‘a good package’), but also had a fresh, fulfilling flavour that will make you mmmm and yummm before you can think of a coherent way to describe it.

And let me assure you, there was no longer a grumpy man in the house when we’d finished tasting.  He even stole my other pie for his work lunch the next day!

(Disclaimer; I was given these pies under no obligation to write a good review on them, luckily they’re ace so I didn’t have to worry about eating gross food or potentially upsetting anyone).