[Homemade] Icelandic Lamb and Guinness Pie

This took a little while to bring together but it was so got dang worth it! Easily one of the greatest dinners I've made.

Firstly I mostly followed the method that Fallow used in their "Michelin Beef Pie at Home" Video from 3 months ago.

Instead of beef I used Icelandic Lamb shoulder chops raised at the family farm. The red wine I used was your standard Apothic red, and I did the 6 hour braising schedule. The stock I used was also homemade, a couple months ago I got 40-ish lbs of marrow bones and simmered them for 3 days. A TON of fat rendered out of them which I filtered and kept and used in the crust for these pies. Also where I differed from fallow is I pulsed the mushrooms in the food processor a couple times so they were small pieces. That's mostly a textural thing for me, I almost never care for slices of mushrooms in things, but I do love the flavor.

Rather than the crust in the video, I made a hot water crust the way you might see in a traditional scotch pie. The recipe for that was 400g AP flour, 100g lard, 90g butter, 2tsp salt, 160g water.

3rd pic is the gravy after reducing the braising liquid and thickening. 4th pic is the beef bones before blanching. I had to get a new stock pot to hold that many, but we love having a supply of stock on hand.

In all, I'm absolutely in love with these pies. My pie moulds are a bit tall on the sides so one pie is enough for two very hungry people, so I'll probably get some different ones at some point. The hole I cut in the top was also a bit too large, but that's ok.