Think things like pot roast, pot pie, wedge salad and shrimp cocktail.
We have a lot of variety and should celebrate our cuisine with cheeses, roasts, pies and all sorts of breads and cakes".
My mother, an excellent cook, catered to my father's rather cautious tastes, and though there were also roasts, pies, casseroles and soups, our usual dinner was meat and two veg, boiled.
Howe Street (between Robson and West Georgia), momsgrilledcheesetruck.com Opened by coffee-roasting, pie-loving sisters Stephanie and Andrea French, this tiny unit where leafy Strathcona meets Chinatown is the place to pick up an organic, single origin, pour-over coffee (£1.65) and slices of freshly baked, seasonal fruit-filled pie (£3.30).
It's all fine, in a designed-by-committee-for-a-new-Wetherspoons-concept kind of way: a curry, a pasta, breakfasts and roasts, pies and steaks; truffles for the poshness and (too sweet) pineapple upside-down cake for the laydeez.
The porterhouse was blessed with a luscious roast onion pie and a wild mushroom ragout, while the Brazilian dish came with roasted new potatoes and jalapeño-onion marmalade.
If any of your friends offer to cook you anything a roast, a pie, some fucking buns hug them tightly and never let them go.
Cider roasted apple pie, $32; pop pies, $3.75 each; apple crumble mini-layer cake, $7.25.
Around the holidays, Elizabeth Belkind of Cake Monkey (you know, those adorable mini-layer cakes) brings back her stupendous Vermont cider roasted apple pie in a double cheddar crust.
Other dessert items included roasted apple pie, black bottom peanut pie, coffee cup bread pudding, whiskey fudge and red velvet cup cakes.
