Pieminister Blog

Famous hangover cures The ultimate remedy is a good, old-fashioned ‘hair of the dog’ – and nothing beats a Bloody Mary. Here’s our version: A Bloody Mary Ingredients: 2 ice cubes 50ml good-quality vodka 25ml sherry 3 twists of freshly ground black pepper a pinch of Maldon sea salt a squeeze of lime juice 150ml read more …

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pieminister is 8!  This Thursday (15th December) is exactly eight years since our first pieminister pie was born in Stokes Croft in Bristol. And we want to celebrate by giving away pies all day! All you need to do is make sure you’re in Bristol this Thursday and meet Holly and Marine (two very dedicated read more …

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Congratulations to all those who’ve won our twitter competition and received pieminister hoodies! If you want to be in with a chance of winning one of our competitions then get following us on facebook and twitter, it’s where we post all our information about upcoming competitions and events! And if you can’t wait to win a prize you read more …

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Get in a pickle with a Mr Porky ploughmans this Autumn… Autumn’s arrived and we thought we’d mark this by celebrating what must be one of pieminister’s most ‘harvesty’ pies – the Mr Porky. Made with outdoor reared British pork, apples, and Somerset cider this is the West Country in a pie. So ditch the read more …

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Kenneth our lovely pie van stopped by the Bristol UWE Freshers Fayre on the 22nd September to give away pies and sausage rolls! Plenty of lucky students tried our Moo Moo pie, Cheeky Chick pie and our delicious vegetarian Mini amigo pie. Congratulations to Rachel the lucky winner of a summer of pie t-shirt and read more …

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Our cookbook a pie for all seasons has hit the shelves, so get your skates on and “Grab the book”. Here at HQ we had 9 hands grabbing the book, so go on Grab the book and see how many hands you can get on it? The entry with the most hands on the book read more …

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Guest blog from Canopy & Stars People are always asking us – “What’s glamping got to do with pies?” Well, there are several interesting similarities between Pieminister and glamping gurus (if we do say so ourselves!) Canopy & Stars… At least three, anyway… 1. Both Canopy & Stars and Pieminister are Bristol born, bred… and read more …

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We’ve been working hard this summer at pieminister but we have also had some fun times, travelling all over the country feeding hungry festival goers, so we thought we would share some of the highlights of our summer so far! Charlies Angels eat your heart out! the pie angels made an exclusive appearance at read more …

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Congratulations to Verity the lucky winner of a copy of our first cookbook, fresh off the press and signed by Jon and Tris. Don’t forget you can pre-order your copy at Amazon! Tweet read more …

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Our favourite inanimate object entries!!!!….In our newsletter last month MD Jon showed off his new office friends, Clive the stapler, Gary the hole punch and Hot Jean the water tap. We asked all you pie loving people to send in any pictures of your inanimate objects turned into friends. Jon, Clive and the gang were read more …

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