Tag: pastry

  • Northern Ireland Main – Mushroom and Guinness Pie

    Northern Ireland Main – Mushroom and Guinness Pie

    Of course we had to include a recipe with Guinness! For this recipe we used a recipe from the BOSH! book, which we highly recommend getting your hands on. This also means if you’re able to get vegan pastry (or even make your own), this is a vegan-friendly meal too. This mushroom and Guinness pie…

  • England Starter – ‘Cornish’ Pasties

    England Starter – ‘Cornish’ Pasties

    When it came to deciding what food to make for England, the humble Cornish pasty was one of the first things to come to mind. One of the GGG team was born and raised on the border of Cornwall, so this is a favourite meal that had been missed since becoming pescatarian. Typically, a Cornish…

  • Bosnia Starter – Pita Pies

    Bosnia Starter – Pita Pies

    To start in Bosnia and Herzegovina, we opted to make pita pies! These look amazing when done properly and were delicious too! We used a recipe from At The Immigrant’s Table and chose the cottage cheese filling, although the butternut squash version looks delicious too! The first element to the pita was the filling, a…

  • Morocco Starter – Bakoula Hand Pies

    Morocco Starter – Bakoula Hand Pies

    For the Moroccan starter, we looked into bakoula, which is a salad typically made from mallow. However, as we are not in Morocco, we substituted the mallow for chard. In terms of flavour and texture, mallow is said to be similar to spinach or chard, but we’d definitely be curious to try the real thing!…

  • Cyprus Main – Spinach and Feta Filo Pie

    Cyprus Main – Spinach and Feta Filo Pie

    As the focus was on the Greek side of Cyprus, we looked into making a Spanakopita-style pie for the main course. We found a great recipe on BBC Good Food that we used for this dish! Again this was a dish that didn’t require a lot of ingredients and was super easy to make. Once…