Bo Derek’s Cheese Pie – Colindale – The Great Bear Project – Stop #14

Bo’s Cheese Pies, like Bo herself,

are very photogenic…

and we had a fun zip out to Colindale on a very windy day in February 2020 in order to scoff one on a tube station platform. Bo’s recipe makes a big pie but I decided to make little ones, much easier to transport.

This was a return to the traditional format of a Great Bear escapade, after a couple of dishes that weren’t suitable to eat on the hoof (Rip Torn’s Omelet Mexicali and Roger Moore’s Best Ever Bolognese Sauce).  It was nice to get back to the old-fashioned way of doing things, set in place on our very first trip when we took a Pola Negri Trifle to High Barnet.

Little did we know as we posed with little pies

and ate them on the platform

that this project would be brought to a grinding halt by the global pandemic.  No mask had to be worn for this here salute to the roundel!  We had no idea what was coming!

But I am pleased to announce that after a hiatus of 15 months of not venturing out, we have begun taking tentative steps up the Northern Line with movie star-related foodstuffs again. You’ll soon see us trying to eat weird things by lifting up a mask corner and shoving them in our cake holes on this here blog.

Until then, here is the recipe and Mr. Rathbone’s Tube Trivia for Colindale, our last station stop before the plague times arrived.