A LITTLE BIT ON THE SIDE
Canapés are the essential companion to cocktails – a delightful appetizer, guaranteed to make the drinker linger and ask for more. Canapé is the French word for couch and although traditionally canapés have had a bread-like base more adventurous caterers are pushing out the boundaries and using pastry shapes and mini tartlets.
Pidy, the gourmet Belgium baker, makes a range of mini savoury pastry cases that are just perfect for canapés. Altogether there are eighteen different shapes of mini savoury cases made from five kinds of pastry: shortcrust, French puff pastry, pressed puff pastry, choux pastry and the new foncage pastry used on the Corolle and Iris cups. Each shape can be used for a different filling.
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13 November 2007
Pidy’s ready-cooked tart cases are just the job for busy caterers
The best tarts always start with quality pastry. Even the most spectacular-tasting filling will not receive the accolade it deserves if it is served in a soggy, tough case. But Pidy has developed a special recipe that ensures its pastry cases retain their freshness and ‘crunch’ right up to the moment of eating, even if they are filled hours in advance.
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06 November 2007
Pidy’s pastry cases provide a perfect base for starters and desserts
Presentation is paramount in fine dining and the easy way to make both sophisticated starters and delicate deserts is by using Pidy’s exquisite pastry cases. Because the quality of the pastry is outstanding chefs can be assured of producing a starter, main course or dessert with a perfect ‘bite’ to the base, even if the item is prepared well in advance.
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20 October 2007
Pidy’s mini-pastry cases make scrumptious mince tarts
Pidy’s pastry mini-sable cases are just perfect for making individual bite-sized mince tarts for an extra special Christmas buffet item. The fluted round cases are supplied baked blind and ready-to-fill. Pidy, the Belgium gourmet bakery, has developed its own recipe and production methods that ensure the cases are easy to handle and remain crispy right up to the moment of serving.
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15 August 2007
Halloween is the time for tricks and treats, apples and pumpkins and ghosts and ghouls. But Halloween food does not have to be garish and gruesome to evoke seasonal tastes. Belgian gourmet pastry manufacturer, Pidy, suggests a Calvados Apple Tartlet as a sophisticated dessert for the Halloween season.
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18 July 2007
Now with re-usable holder which attaches to the side of a plate or saucer for ease of use
Coffee, tea and other liquid refreshments are amongst the simplest and yet most profitable of menu items to serve. But they can be much enhanced, and justify a premium price, with a simple adornment. Going beyond a complimentary biscotti or chocolate mint, it needn’t take much to create something special.
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29 June 2007
John Savege has joined Belgian bakery specialist Pidy as Sales Director for the company’s UK division. His main role will be to develop Pidy’s sales of gourmet, ready to fill pastry cases to the retail, foodservice and food manufacturing markets.
One of the food sector’s most experienced operators, John Savege has worked in the industry for nearly 40 years. His first job, back in 1968, was with a traditional wholesaler and involved selling around 3500 lines to retailers and caterers - John says this gave him a broad and solid foundation of knowledge to build on.
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21 June 2007
Pastry Post, the gourmet pastry case ordering service, has launched a 105-piece selection pack, giving chefs, caterers, bakers and artisan food manufacturers a way of trying a wide variety of Pidy ready-baked pastry cases without the commitment of having to buy a whole case of each product.
The selection pack, exclusive to Pastry Post on www.pastrypost.co.uk, offers an assortment of nine different types of pastry case. Included are shortcrust tartlets in different sizes and flavours (both sweet and neutral), blind-baked quiche cases, profiteroles, mini square vol au vents, meringues and a new low-fat crispy corolle cup made with sunflower oil.
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10 May 2007
Specialist internet distributor Pastry Post has launched a website and full online ordering service for the Pidy range of gourmet ready-baked pastry cases. The website - www.pastrypost.co.uk - offers caterers, bakers and artisan food manufacturers virtually the entire Pidy range of ready-baked pastry cases in a weekly delivery service fresh from Belgium.
Pastry Post uses Pidy’s special packaging designed to protect the pastry cases in transit.
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13 April 2007
You can’t have a summer event without strawberry tarts – it’s just not British. After all, British strawberries are the best in the world. But if you want the best pastry in the world, the country to head for is Belgium. Luckily for UK caterers, Pidy supplies ready-to-fill Belgian pastry cases via wholesalers across the UK – you can even order from the Internet, if you prefer.
The combination of fresh strawberries, cream and delicious pastry is a firm favourite at summer functions everywhere, from the King’s Head to Wimbledon. Pidy’s ready-to-fill gourmet pastry cases allow caterers to add their favourite filling, without having to worry about the tricky job of making the pastry itself.
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15 March 2007
Canapés are the essential companion to cocktails – a delightful appetizer, guaranteed to make the drinker linger and ask for more. Canapé is the French word for couch and although traditionally canapés have had a bread-like base more adventurous caterers are pushing out the boundaries and using pastry shapes and mini tartlets.
