ingredients and then you have to make it properly. you have to make it as it should be, so it s got plenty of meat, a nice drop ofjuice in it, good shortcrust pastry. and then bake it properly in a bloody good oven, and bob“s your uncle, you ll end up with a good pie. pie houses first opened offering cheap, but wholesome food in blue collar parts of london back in mid victorian times, and leading the charge with two immigrant families, both newcomers to the city. the manzes from ravello in italy and the cookes from wicklow in ireland. they quickly expanded their pie and mash empires and almost a century and a half later, some of their pie shops are still in business today. i don t know if you can call it special, it s just that it s still, after 150 odd years, a good, solid, basic meal. there s no additives
with people with a smile, your whole experience is different. now, finally this week, long before the cheeseburger, it was here in london that a more british fast food was invented. we re not talking about fish and chips. this is pie and mash a simple dish of a beef pie and mashed potato, served with a liquor sauce made with fresh parsley. you“d traditionally find this dish served up in one of the many pie shops that dot working class parts of the city. but they re fighting for survival and the families who run them are working hard to keep this cockney classic alive. the difference between a good pie and a bad pie? good ingredients first, if you haven t got that, it“s trying to make a silk purse out of sow“s ear, which doesn t really work. so you must have the good
about the boys. did you think this could be the restoration oyour family? and she s certainly making an effort to reach out to you, right? and i felt our family deserved happiness after everything we had been through. so i was hoping it would all pan out okay. and it did go okay. she kept all the lovelace s running like a swiss train schedule. while he worked at his own law practice. i opened an actual pie shops. i was making 100 pies a week and selling out by 9:00 in the morning. so this was a growing concern? absolutely. what s your go-to pie? blueberry. me too. you name it i can prob deebl it. after year oz of turmoil, it seems they were back.
bankrate.com that caught our eye. let s count them down. number five, a texas man deducts a smokestack of all things that sits on his property as a charitable donation to the city because it s considered a local landmark. guess what, he s able to writeoff more than $100,000. good for him. number four, a california businessman who owns a string of pie shops tries to expense his lunch because he says he ate pies for dessert to study the ingredients for research. that didn t fly with the irs. number three, a texas landlord is also unsuccessful when trying to deduct his dog s vet fees explaining he used his dog as his security system for the various properties he owned. number two, an elderly woman tries deducting costs for a swimming pool because her doctor told her it was good therapy for her knee. turns out the pool didn t belong to her. it was her son s. and had absolutely no connection to her except of course for the swimming. okay, finally, the number one craziest deduction, a retire