Up the creek without a paddle

[soc_puppet]

One of my classes has an assignment where we need to imagine our own bakery and pick out fourteen menu items. This is a long-term assignment, and we will need the recipes for all of them for various parts of the project. The menu is due tomorrow.

I? Have barely picked out a tentative theme. I had a disorganized potential list of items to go on the menu, but they didn't really have much of a connection aside from "I rather like these things," and a theme is something I could really use for this assignment.

Unfortunately, I am now nearly out of time and am barely closer to figuring out what I want to do. I'm leaning towards a breadhouse that specializes in somewhat more savory stuff, things you can take for lunch or that would make a heartier breakfast than your average muffin. (Though I am totally including maple bacon muffins. Cupcakes? Wev. That one thing.) I just need to figure out, oh, way too many items to include on the menu now.

*sigh* Maybe if I put a bunch of bagels on the list...

Comments

[dogmatix]

Savoury baked goods? How about English pies - that is, meat pies. You can buy meat pies at any supermarket and most petrol/gas station stores/cafes (and by café I mean a small store as well as an eatery), and there are even stores that specialize mostly in pies. They're usually sold hot, although they can also be cool(not frozen) but you heat them up before you eat them.

You also have a wide variety to choose from, the most popular ones are Pepper Steak, Steak and Kidney(yes real kidney, not kidney beans. It's really quite tasty), and Chicken and Mushroom. There's also a type with basically a heavy stew/mix of veggies and meat in it that I'm blanking on the name of. Recently there have been more adventurous pies, like the cheeseburger pie (it's weird but it.. kinda works? Patty + cheese + tomato sauce + slice of pickle), and spinach and feta pie.

Of course you can stick just about anything that'll fit inside the pie crust, so it's up to you. :)

And of course there's American fruit pies, so you can do a kind of... lunch and desert thing with mix-and-match savoury and sweet pies? XD

[soc_puppet]

That is a fantastic idea! One of the teachers was doing mini pie-pocket things (like, an eight inch square of pie crust, put the filling in it, fold it in half to make a rectangle and bake), and those would be great for little on-the-go lunch pockets. I'll have to look up some recipes :)

It's a thought! I was planning on including John Scalzi's Schadenfreude Pie for the longest time, but that may be a bit to sweet to qualify. Still, I am rather planning to include PB&J cookies, so maybe...