I had read a while ago about typical English foods and one of them I had not tried / heard of was a Lancashire Pie.

After a bit of googling, it turns out the Lancashire has its own typical cheeses, and in particular a cheese and onion pie that sounded yummy.

I bought some Lancashire cheese from my local cheesemonger and tried to follow this, fairly straight forward recipe:

https://thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/my-mothers-lancashire-cheese-and-onion-pie

Pretty typical pie, with basically just the cheese and simply cooked (but not browned) onions.

All in all, I thought it was pretty yummy. Not a huge effort, yet something that lets the ingredients speak for themselves.

I also made a soup to go with it: tomato passata, onion, roasted capsicum, carrot, potato, basil, spinach, oregano, smoked paprika, vege stock. Blended it all after a while with an immersion blender, added some more basil and cooked a little longer.

I’d also picked up a Garlic Ciabatta from M&S that I served with it all.

A very filling, but great winter meal for a cold day. I think everyone was pretty happy with all of it.