Author: ThePieMan

  • Technical Difficulties

    Apologies to one and all. Due to Technical Difficulties our site went offline in August, but we only became cognisant of that fact just the other day and have been busy working behind the scenes to get back online. The Internet is becoming more and more a weird, and wild place, in which to have…

  • The PieMan is Back!

    Aussie pie connoisseurs rejoice! The PieMan is back! and you can find him in residence in Shanghai. This summer we will be exploring a whole new world of pie fillings, to bring to you the best pies on offer, to all you true pie connoisseurs, in Shanghai. Villa Tempest Pies are bespoke, hand made on…

  • That Infamous Black Substance in KFC Original Recipe

    One of the more intriguing contentions within the KFC O.R. test & research community as championed at The Colonel’s Kitchen Forum (last posts 2015), its mirror (currently having Server problems) in the UK, Lumpy’s Larder (now defunct), and more recently at Reddit & the KFC11 Forum is the accepted wisdom that Tahitian Vanilla is an integral component and the suggested recommendation for Vial C, shown above. Tahitian…

  • Australia’s Iconic Dim Sim : A Marathon Quest

    Any search of the Internet for “Dim Sims” – an Australian Classic; will pull up no end of recipe suggestions, and lamentations from Expat Australian’s wanting to recreate a little taste of home. That being said, many an arm chair expert frequently chime in to correct those poor Aussie Expats, telling them that what they’re…

  • Chiko Roll Revisited

    In recent days, I’ve been redoing my recipe collection, and I’ve come to the realisation, that I have three types of recipe books: a) printed books, b) hand written notes,  notebooks and a kitchen diarie, and c) my kitchen scrapbooks – that is books for scrapbooking recipes picked up from supermarkets, snipped from magazines and…

  • Pancake Parlour’s Tabriz Crepes (Revisited)

    Previously I wrote down my recipe for a Pancake Parlour-style Pancake Tabriz, and I must say I was very happy with it. But this update is even better! But after extensive searching I felt that I needed to revisit this recipe and analyse it just a little more. So instead of a traditional recipe this is going…