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  Pie @ iCookClub.com
A pie is a baked dish, with a baked shell usually made of pastry that covers or completely contains a filling of meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, cheeses, creams, chocolate, custards, nuts, or other sweet or savoury ingredients.
Tarte Tatin is a one-crust fruit pie that is served upside-down, with the crust underneath.
A peculiarity of Adelaide cuisine is the Pie floater.
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  Pie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tarte Tatin is a one-crust fruit pie that is served upside-down, with the crust underneath.
A peculiarity of Adelaide cuisine is the Pie floater.
Pie itself may be an inherently funny word, or it may be that it is the thought of actual pie which adds humour to a situation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pie   (1211 words)

  
 Pie - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A pie is a baked dish with a pastry shell that covers or completely contains a filling of meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, cheeses, creams, chocolate, custards, nuts, or other sweet or savoury ingredient.
Throwing a pie in a person's face has been a staple of film comedy since the early days of the medium, and real life pranksters have taken to targeting celebrities with their pies (often called "pieing").
Pie itself may be an inherently funny word, or it may be that it is the thought of actual pie which adds humor to a situation.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Pie   (801 words)

  
 Pie floater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 2003, the pie floater was recognised as a South Australian Heritage Icon by the National Trust of Australia.
Whilst other food such as gyros are increasing their share of the late-night snack market in Adelaide, the pie floater remains a popular snack choice for young residents after a night out.
The Pie Floater also makes an appearance in the reality-mirroring (albeit a funhouse mirror) Discworld novel The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett, where it is sold by Fair Go Dibbler, one of a number of similar characters who sell "regional delicacies" across the Disc.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pie_floater   (253 words)

  
 Eye Floaters Cure -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Floaters are suspended in the thick fluid of the eye.
Floaters can be a nuisance and a distraction to those who suffer from severe cases, as the spots seem to drift through the field of vision.
A floater in sports is an unaffiliated player; a ''floater'' may refer to an 'extra' man at a dinner party, or a young friend of the hostess, whose assignment is to make sure that all the girls are talking and dancing.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/49/eye-floaters-cure.html   (1021 words)

  
 In cooking cooking a pie is a baked dish with a...
In cooking cooking, a "pie" is a baked dish with a pastry pastry shell that covers or completely contains a filling of meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, cheeses, creams, chocolate, custards or any other sweet or savoury ingredient you can think to put inside.
Pie fillings range in size from tiny bitesize party pie party pies or small tartlet tartlets, to single-serve pies (e.g.
A peculiarity of Adelaide Adelaide cuisine is the Pie floater Pie floater.
www.biodatabase.de /Pie   (468 words)

  
 Pie floater - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Pie Floaters are a rare Australian dish, invented in South Australia.
Pie Floaters are a mixture of meat pie and pea soup.
The largest demographic of Pie Floater eaters is the drunk, middle aged man who wears a blue singlet.
uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Pie_floater   (776 words)

  
 Pie Safes
Tarte Tatin is a one-crust fruit pie that is served upside-down, with thecrust underneath.
If the crust of the pie requires much more cooking than the chosenfilling, it may also be blind-baked before the filling is added and then only briefly cooked or refrigerated.
Apeculiarity of Adelaide cuisine is the Pie floater.
www.lottery-news.net /dust640-pie_safes.html   (637 words)

  
 Pie
Pie was popularized in the early 2000's by the charactors weebl and bob.
In Vodun, Pie is a soldier-loa who lived at the bottoms of lakes and rivers and caused floods.
tarte tatin occasionally is miscategorized as a form of pie.
www.teachtime.com /en/wikipedia/p/pi/pie.html   (366 words)

  
 Heritage icons
The hearty meal is traditionally eaten at kerbside from a ‘pie cart’, the most famous being Cowleys’, which still stands alongside the GPO in Victoria Square.
The first pie cart was licensed in 1871 and by 1915 there were nine, sustained until 1942.
Today the pie cart remains one of our most egalitarian of eateries and the pie floater’s curb-side consumption by people from all walks of life for more than130 years makes it an authentic and uniquely South Australian culinary tradition.
www.nationaltrustsa.org.au /heritage_icons_2003.htm   (1780 words)

  
 Pie
In cooking, a pie is a baked dish with a pastry shell that covers or completely contains a filling of meat, fish, vegetables or fruit.
If the crust of the pie requires much more cooking than the chosen filling, it may be blind-baked[?] before the filling is added and then only briefly cooked or refrigerated.
Pies can have either a sweet or a savoury filling, and they range in size from tiny bitesize party pies[?] or small tartlets[?], to single-serve pies (eg.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pi/Pie.html   (265 words)

  
 Pie
Articles with similar titles include the number Pi, the pie menu, or Proto-Indo-European language (PIE).
Blind-baking is used to develop a crust's crispiness, and help it from getting soggy under the burden of a very liquidy filling.
In Internet Culture, pie has been made popular by the Flash cartoon, weebl and bob.
www.askfactmaster.com /Pie   (532 words)

  
 The Encyclopædia of South Australian Culture: P
I’m pleased to report some progress with research on the pie floater, a meat pie served in a sea of pea soup with a slash of tomato sauce.
The exact origins of the pie floater in South Australia—who and where and when—are blurred in a swirl of faded memories and vague hearsay, but I believe it could have been simply the result of fortuitous proximity.
Pie stalls, which had been around since at least the 1870s, were often associated with another form of fast food, mashed peas.
saculture.com /entries/p.html   (393 words)

  
 Australian Meat Pies - info and recipe
The traditional Aussie meat pie is about 15cm in diameter, just large enough to hold in one hand and covered in tomato sauce.
Today's meat pies come in your basic meat pie and a variety of styles: steak and onion, beef and tomato and onion, beef and vegetables, chicken and vegetables and others.
That's a meat pie served in a bowl of pea soup.
alldownunder.com /oz-u/food-recipes/meat-pies.htm   (536 words)

  
 pitpass - the latest, hottest F1 & A1GP news
May I be permitted to say that the Pie Floater is Australia's finest (only?) example of haute cuisine, however 'umble it may seem in Rebecca's recipe.
The Buck is something of a connoisseur of comestibles and yet he rates the Pie Floater highly.
We were in Argentine for a Grand Prix in the 1970s and dining at one of those barbecue places where you don't order, you just sit and choose whatever bits of cow the waiters are bringing around, threaded on a sword.
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 The Green Man: Pie Floater
Unique to the state of South Australia the pie floater is a minced meat pie floating is a sea of thick split pea soup and topped liberally with tomato sauce, which is more savoury that American ketchup.
a pie floater is a rite of passage.
a pie floater is a riot of *passage*.
thegreenman.net.au /mt/archives/000536.html   (666 words)

  
 Barista » Blog Archive » other peoples’ stomachs
In other words, it is their version of the floater.
Pie, smartly inverted and stabbed with both a tomato sauce and a vinegar dispenser.
I remember having my first (and last) pie floater at the Pie Cart near the railway station during one boozy night.
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 Floaters: an octalogy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The floater is Adelaide's contribution to world cuisine: a meat pie floating upside down in a bowl of pea soup, and deluged with tomato sauce.
The meat pie drowning in soup reminds me of Australia, a child afloat in the ocean, abandoned by mother Britannia since her remarriage to Europa (while that lecherous Uncle Sam eyes the nubile youngster).
All the Floaters are interlinked: minor characters in one book turn up in another, revealing themselves in different lights.
www.dennislist.net /floaters.html   (1488 words)

  
 Floater / The outdoor fun and travel source
This was a thick crust pizza with so much cheese each 12″ pie was too much for two hungry people to finish.
Even the 10″ pies were a challenge for the couple that had one of those.
As you can tell, Sunny is an experienced floater and quite a stylish fellow.
www.floattrip.org   (1816 words)

  
 Anna Overseas: Cooking for the British   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I love a good Rhubarb Pie, and started craving it like crazy (thanks Kristi), and so when I found one in the store the next day, I knew I had to have it.
The Pie, for example, had a thick crust, like a meat pie might.
A Pie Floater from Harry's Cafe de Wheels on the harbour at Woolloomooloo, Sydney.
www.annaoverseas.com /archives/2005/10/cooking_for_the.htm   (459 words)

  
 “Pie floater” 5,708 Recipes | Recipezaar
I've read a lot about the Funeral Pie and when it was up for adoption, I grabbed it.
This pie crust is mixed right in the pie plate, then pressed into place.
If sheperd's Pie is made w/ lamb and Cottage Pie is made w/ beef, the vege version must be...
www.recipezaar.com /r/q=Pie+floater   (616 words)

  
 Urban Dictionary: pie
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The most commonly baked type of pie in America is apple pie.
A female, or female sex organ, as in "pussy pie".
www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=pie+&r=f   (398 words)

  
 Mince pie for Wayne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
pie with real beef instead of what is called mincemeat in the US today.
pie, the pastry doesn't suffer from being refrigerated/frozen.
Re: Pies and Pollies [Was: Mince pie for Wayne]
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 Petits Propos Cullinaires
I’m pleased to report some progress with research on the pie floater, a meat pie served in a sea of pea soup with a slash of tomato sauce (PPC 64).
The exact origins of the pie floater in South Australia — who and where and when — are blurred in a swirl of faded memories and vague hearsay, but I believe it could have been simply the result of fortuitous proximity.
Logically, then, a pie on a purée of peas, or in a thick pea soup, should be called a pie floater.
www.kal69.dial.pipex.com /shop/pages/ppc65.htm   (6754 words)

  
 The Old Joel on Software Forum - So, Joel, what did you think of us
The best pie floaters are to be bought from various pie carts in Adelaide, Southern Australia, although some people also speak highly of "Harry's Cafe de Wheels" in Sydney.
Yes, a pie floater may be particular to Australia, but not many of us Aussies would contemplate eating one.
For those in the UK wishing to have some of the experience of 'floaters' try any chippy in Leeds, they do meat pies and mushy peas which is quite similar.
discuss.fogcreek.com /joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=12362   (1247 words)

  
 Harry’s Café de Wheels
The pie cart is a rare surviving example of a once common form of selling food and fresh produce in Sydney; the majority of stalls throughout the city are of a modern design.
Harry’s specialities included pies and peas (a variant of the pie floater known colloquially as a floater) and crumbed sausages.
Given that the pie cart has been located in a number of sites along Cowper Wharf Roadway, to the east of the Finger Wharf, the boundary of the listing is the eastern side of Cowper Wharf Roadway.
www.nsw.nationaltrust.org.au /harryscafe.html   (1412 words)

  
 True Fair Dinkum Aussie Food   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
South Australians have a fondness for pie floaters, as well as the humble meat pie.
A pie floater is a pie which is sitting in a bowl filled with pea soup, and tomato sauce on top.
This is something that visitors must try and the best place for this is at the pie vans in Adelaide city.
www.geocities.com /TheTropics/7077/recipe.htm   (1295 words)

  
 Fodor's Travel Guides | Forums Messages
I thought "pie floaters" were a peculiarly Adelaide speciality.
It consisted of a limp pie floating in a bowl of greyish pea soup, slathered with tomato sauce (ketchup).
A steak pie in NZ is exactly that, whereas in Oz a steak pie is what NZers call a mince pie.
www.fodors.com /forums/pgMessages.jsp?fid=3&tid=34407490&numresponses=27&start=0   (2503 words)

  
 Chubby Hubby: Tweaking tradition
Pie Floaters of Braised Leg of Lamb with Roasted Garlic and Pea Purée
Essentially, it's a meat pie, turned upside down and bathed in either pea soup or topped with a healthy portion of mushy peas.
Yah, I just googled "pie floater" and discovered, amusingly, that the pie floater was inducted as a South Australian Heritage Icon in 2003.
www.chubbyhubby.net /2005/12/tweaking-tradition.html   (2308 words)

  
 Lets talk about pie
i like grasshopper pie, and cherry pie, and vegan chocolate mousse pie, and wildberry pie, and just about all the pies out there except for pumpkin, or any of the meat pies.
A muffin is not a pie and therefor has no place here.
It's a Fruit Tart, pie crust (it must be a pie if it's made with a P-I-E crust, No?) filled with custard and then topped with strawberries, peach, kiwi, bananas, red rasberries and blueberries.
www.bikeforums.net /archive/index.php/t-73784   (1171 words)

  
 www.smh.com.au - Their restaurants rule   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Holding out against changing tastes and fashions, the places that defined Sydney dining are still serving such classics as a pie floater and fish and chips by the harbour.
A pie floater with late-night flotsam and jetsam at Woolloomooloo.
Harry "Tiger" Edwards and his pie cart have been synonymous with Woolloomooloo's naval dock since 1938, and probably always will be.
www.smh.com.au /text/articles/2006/06/05/1149359660552.html   (1385 words)

  
 Pie Floater la spécialité d'Australie... - Be Noot ! - Carnets de voyage multimédia / Plateforme de blogs de tourisme
Pie Floater, traduisez par tarte flottante… ça vous tente ??
Le Pie floater est donc un plat qui n’a pas l’air très appétissant : une grande assiette remplie d’une soupe verte limite fluo de petit pois sur laquelle on renverse une tarte à la viande (qui est considéré comme le plat national de l’Australie).
Si vous voulez absolument goûter au pie floater, mais que vous n’avez pas prévu d’aller en Australie, en cherchant bien, on en trouve aussi en Angleterre.
www.be-noot.com /blog/index.php/2006/09/20/120-australie-pie-floater   (581 words)

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