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Right, enough with the covid and on to serious matters - when do you have your Steak Pie?

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WaxOnFeckOff · 30/12/2020 12:06

Hogmanay or Ne'er Day?

Sausages or not?

What with it? Mash/chips, roasties and Carrots/peas etc?

And what area of Scotland are you from/living in?

Me: Ne'er day, no sausages, served with Mash, peas and carrots and maybe sprouts if any left, from East coast and now in north central belt.

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sleepyhead · 30/12/2020 12:08

Ne'er Day. Sausages & carrots in the pie. Served with mash, red cabbage, sprouts.

West of Scotland.

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WaxOnFeckOff · 30/12/2020 12:09

Standard fare on Hogmanay was tattie soup, stovies, tripe and wee mini pies from a baker in Gorgie - buffet at night with sandwiches and black bun and shortbread and a bit of madeira cake and free reign to help yourself to some of the aforementioned from the pots kept hot on the cooker - wash your own bowl.

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chipsandpeas · 30/12/2020 12:09

ne'er day with mashed potatoes and sausages
stay in west lothian but parents from glasgow

dementedpixie · 30/12/2020 12:11

New years day with roast potatoes and cauliflower cheese apparently. No sausages in the pie

Livy178 · 30/12/2020 12:12

New Year’s Day. No sausages. Mash, roasters,carrots and Brussels. Glasgow here.

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WaxOnFeckOff · 30/12/2020 12:13

oh cauli cheese sounds like a plan!

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DontWalkPastTheCastle · 30/12/2020 12:15

Never if I can help it, it's too heavy!

Lidlfix · 30/12/2020 12:16

Ne'er Day (but in my younger partying days ) that could be 0100 to fortify me for to go to 0600. Mashed potatoes, carrots and peas also sprouts if they were in the house.

Marital conflict on sausages I say yes, DH says no. We are both from Stirlingshire villages only about 6 miles apart but my parents were Glasgow overspill and his original 3 generations in the graveyard types. I snuck them in one year and then made sure he and other sausage deniers didn't get any in their portion. He asked what I had used as seasoning as that year had real depth of flavour. He's working and on call so I don't know if I should bother this year or (shock horror) buy one from the butcher.

mylittleyumyum · 30/12/2020 12:19

New Year's Day, with sausages (this is recent for me, there was no sausages in my Granny's steak pie)

However, stew has been a staple here at least once a week since late October, and it's the last thing I want to eat this Friday, so we'll probably order Chinese instead.

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WaxOnFeckOff · 30/12/2020 12:20

being an edinburger, i'd never even heard of sausages in steak pie and I never make my own Blush. I usually get one of Slaters pies from Dobbies but wasn't sure if they were open or not so had one delivered from Fallininch today. No idea what it will be like (they had a sausage option but i didn't take it). I may have overestimated the size though - oh well, leftovers maybe :)

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WaxOnFeckOff · 30/12/2020 12:22

I know what you mean with the stew @mylittleyumyum. It's easy to get stuck in a rut. Our rut has been stirred up a bit as we have DS2 home from Uni and he has different dislikes so more thinking involved again. Our rut is chicken thighs.

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RaspberryCoulis · 30/12/2020 12:22

Neither.

This really wasn't a thing for me growing up. Moved away from Scotland after Uni for over a decade, came back about 15 years ago at the whole "tradition" had exploded.

massistar · 30/12/2020 12:32

When I was wee my granny used to serve it up around 3am after the bells. Always with mash and boiled peas with vinegar.

Have moved down south now and miss a good steak pie!

Trauchled · 30/12/2020 12:33

Originally from the North East and now in Edinburgh.
Never heard of sausages in a steak pie.
We have it on NewYears day with mashed potatoes and a selection of fresh vegetables.

FlippingBottleFlippers · 30/12/2020 12:34

1st of Jan growing up and stuck with that once my own kids came along. DD has requested steak Balmoral on 1st this year and steak pie on hogmanay instead so I might be persuaded. Whenever we have it, I'll serve it with mashed tatties, carrots, peas and sprouts. I have bought one without sausage but also partial to with.

Furrybootsyecomfy · 30/12/2020 12:40

@WaxOnFeckOff I live in Gorgie now- was your baker the one on Slateford Road (Malones now, used to be something else)? The famous “open all night” one?
When I was growing up in Angus in the late 90s we used to drive down to Broughty Ferry to get ours. It was a big deal!

SetPhasersTaeMalkie · 30/12/2020 12:40

Lunchtime on New Year's Day. With roast potatoes, carrots, sprouts and loads of gravy. I like mashed turnip with mine but I'm the only one who eats it. Steak pie is home made for New Year's Day, although I .would prefer a good butcher's steak pie must but my family would rebel.
I don't think I've seen sausages in a steak pie before?? Could it be a West coast thing?

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WaxOnFeckOff · 30/12/2020 12:40

We had ours on Hogmanay last year to facilitate DS going to his girlfriends on the first and I didn't mind it, but i think it's better on the first. We do it mid afternoon like a Christmas Dinner, can't really do that on hogmanay as that can fall as a working day so it's later and it's quite a heavy meal.

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SetPhasersTaeMalkie · 30/12/2020 12:42

Our New Year's Day lunch is a bit like Christmas too - the best china comes out. 😂

Sleepdeprived42long · 30/12/2020 12:43

New Years Day. Usually with all my extended family. Going to miss that so much this year :-(

MysweetAudrina · 30/12/2020 12:43

Not Scottish but am loving the thought of a steak pie. Any recipes for making one please? and I see the different sides that people mention, is there a tradition for specific for particular sides?

HappyPumpkin81 · 30/12/2020 12:45

New Year's day, never heard of having sausages with it. East Coast. I have mine with potato croquettes, carrots, neeps, peas, sweetcorn and this year brussel sprouts as I still have tons to eat through. I keep forgetting to get Guiness though!

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WaxOnFeckOff · 30/12/2020 12:46

[quote Furrybootsyecomfy]@WaxOnFeckOff I live in Gorgie now- was your baker the one on Slateford Road (Malones now, used to be something else)? The famous “open all night” one?
When I was growing up in Angus in the late 90s we used to drive down to Broughty Ferry to get ours. It was a big deal![/quote]
Frequented Malones many a time walking home from town after a night out but no, it was a wee place (name escapes me for now) just before the playpark. Always had a queue outside and I've never seen the wee pies they did anywhere else - or maybe it was a butcher? Just remember getting sent down on the bus with the trolley and a sibling to get the pies and various other bits.

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IfNotNow12 · 30/12/2020 12:48

Not Scottish either but often have a big lunch New year's Day and invite people over. I didn't know New Year steak pie was a Scottish thing! Also, it all sounds delicious and can I come up next year??

SlantyBaws · 30/12/2020 12:53

Ne'er Day definitely, served with a metric fuckton of mashed potatoes, cabbage and carrots.

Hogmanay this year is an evening of snashsters - satay chicken skewers, tempura prawns, mini burgers. A far cry from the snackies when I was growing up - then it would be Fine Fair's onion rings and prawn cocktail crisps (Skips rip-offs) and a babycham for the bells.