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Serve me my wine. Well, hurry up, this pie is dry. Good, needs washing down.

1. This weekend we're welcoming back the show that has the monopoly on lurid violence, epic battles, and wholly unnecessary nudity: Game of Thrones.
2. Game of Thrones, if you’ll forgive the pun, changed the game on fan theories.The HBO show has inspired countless Reddit threads, discussion forums, and crazy homemade conspiracy walls decked out.

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Game of Thrones Summary: Based on the popular book series 'A Song of Ice and Fire,' by George R.R. Martin, this fantasy series chronicles an epic struggle for power set in a vast and violent.

KING JOFFREY, GAME OF THRONES, SEASON FOUR

Game of Thrones: Pigeon Pie Recipe

I’m being absolutely honest when I say this has to be my favorite savory pie I’ve had so far. I’ve tried a few recipes online for pigeon pie and the recipe from Bon Appetit was my favorite. I love the savory and sweet aspect of it and the recipe I have today is a variation of it. Even though there are quite a few ingredients, this pie is really easy to put together. Most of the time and effort goes into the outside appearance of the pie but it’s so worth the time and looks incredibly impressive if you’re hosting a party. Honestly, if I can make this pie look half decent, I doubt you will have any trouble. You have to give it a try!

Tonight is finally the Emmys and I think it’s safe to say that Game of Thrones is going to sweep the competition. They already won a few awards during the Creative Arts Emmys a few days ago! The category I’m very curious to see who will win is Best Supporting Actress. I personally find it impossible to chose between Maisie Williams, Emilia Clarke, or Lena Headey.

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• FILLING
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• 2 tbsp - unsalted butter
• 1 tbsp - vegetable oil
• 1 - medium onion, thinly sliced
• 1 tsp - sugar
• ¼ cup - red wine
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• 2 tbsp - vegetable oil
• 1 - medium carrot, peeled, small diced
• 1 - small onion, small diced
• 1 - medium stalk of celery, small diced
• 1 - bay leaf
• ½ tsp - cinnamon
• ¼ tsp - ground cloves
• 14oz - ground pork
• salt and pepper to taste
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• 14oz - quail meat, bones removed (you can substitute chicken)
• ½ cup / 3oz - dried apricots, small diced
• ⅓ cup - pine nuts, lightly toasted
• 12 slices - pancetta
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• HOT WATER CRUST
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• 20oz - all purpose flour
• 1½ sticks / 6oz- unsalted butter
• 7.5oz - water
• 1 - egg, lightly beaten (egg wash)

1. Heat a saucepan over medium heat with butter and oil. Once hot, add the onions and cook for 5 minutes. Add the sugar and mix to combine. When the onions get soft, add the wine and cook over medium low heat until most of the liquid has cooked off and the onions are really nice and soft. Season for salt and pepper, set aside.
2. Heat a clean saucepan over medium heat. Add the vegetable oil and once hot, add the onions and bay leaf and cook for 3 minutes until softened. Add the diced carrots, and celery and cook for another 3 minutes. Add the ground pork, cinnamon, and cloves. Break the pork into small pieces and cook just enough for the pork to cook through. Season with salt and pepper. Set aside to cool.
3. Preheat the oven to 375F. Have an 8' spring form pan ready for the crust.
4. For the crust, heat the water and butter together just until it comes to a boil. Pour the water and butter mixture into the flour and mix just until it forms a ball of dough. Take ⅓ of the dough and place it on a lightly floured surface. Leave the rest of the dough in a warm place, covered.
5. Roll the dough out into a circle. It needs to be big enough to fit the bottom and sides of the pan. Transfer the rolled out dough to the pan and gently press it into the corners of the pan.
6. To start filling the pie, start with three slices pancetta followed by half of the pork, half of the onions, half of the apricots, half of the pine nuts, and then another 3 slices of pancetta.
7. Lightly season the quail or chicken with salt and pepper and fill the pie with the meat. Top another 3 slices of pancetta and the rest of the onions, apricots, and pine nuts. Pour in the last of the pork and finish with 3 more slices of pancetta on top. Set aside.
8. Take half of the remaining dough and roll it out to fit the top of the pie. Press the dough together to seal the seams. At this point, you can decorate the top of the pie with leaves, a crown, and a pigeon in the middle. Stick the add ons with a little bit of the egg wash. Cut 2-4 slices in the center (inside the crown) to allow ventilation. Egg wash the crust.
9. Bake for one hour. At this point, the crust should be lightly golden brown but if you notice your bird or edges are getting dark too quickly, cover it with foil. If you want to add any additional leaves to the side of the pie, I took the pie out when the top was lightly golden brown. Take off the ring of the springform pan and add any additional leaves. Pan for another 30-40 minutes until the internal temperature reaches 160F. Let it cool before slicing and eating.

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Welcome, friends. Now's the time for me to deliver fair warning: the Game of Thrones Season 4**SPOILERS** are about to start shooting faster than Ygritte’s arrows, and your beautiful snow-tousled locks can’t save you like they did Jon Snow. If you’ve come here, you’re probably a Game of Thrones book reader, or maybe you’re just the kind of TV viewer who doesn’t mind a spoiler here and there and isn’t looking to be caught off guard by another Ned Stark/Robb Stark/Catelyn Stark situation in the fourth season of Game of Thrones. So, let us fill you in: according to the trailer for this Sunday’s new episode, it’s time for the royal wedding (aka, the Purple Wedding) of Margaery Tyrell to Joffrey Baratheon. Sunday's episode is titled 'The Lion and The Rose' (the lion is Joffrey's family crest and the rose is Magaery's), but the wedding coming a little earlier than most fans were expecting.

And while HBO simply says 'The Lion and the Rose' finds Joffrey and Margaery 'hosting a breakfast,' we’ve all read the books; we know the Purple Wedding is coming. If you haven’t read the books, then you’re really asking for it now… Joffrey dies at his wedding. Joffrey dies big time.

The Purple Wedding scene in the books, just like the Red Wedding, happened so fast it was quite literally UNBELIEVABLE to read. With the visual medium of TV, it’s a little easier to see what’s coming, as the mind is much more easily convinced during the Red Wedding that Catelyn Stark has truly been killed when it sees the blood come gushing from her throat. (Ha ha, dumb mind, you’re so wrong!)

There’s no question in the books that Joffrey is a psychotic little twit; but the TV show has made a few extra additions to Joffrey’s story over the past three seasons that will make his death on Sunday all the sweeter. (Did I just say that? Am I the psychotic one? Nah, Joffrey’s the effin’ worst.)

He’s old enough to be dangerous

People like Joffrey can be dangerous at any age. But like most of the other children in the Game of Thrones, he was aged up for the screen. Taking his character from 13 to 16, making him practically an adult in Westeros culture – a sniveling, immature, tiny adult – makes it seem like his elders are even less willing to call him on his crazy. In the books, 13-year-old Joffrey is still just dabbling in skinning cats alive, but on the show, he's gone full human murder, by the end of Season 1, ordering the murder of all of his father’s bastards, rather than Cersei, as it was in the books.

That Awful Business with the Prostitutes

It’s not that Joffrey is written as more ruthless in the TV show than in the books, because he’s crystal clear crazy there too — it’s that on the screen we’re able to see the sheer delight on Joffrey’s face (played masterfully by Jack Gleeson) as he ruins lives. And when that face is coupled with Joffrey holding his ever-present crossbow while forcing two prostitutes to beat each other (in the book it’s only implied that Tyrion might give him a prostitute for his name day), well, it’s too bad the 'Mad King” title was already taken by the time he made it to the throne. Additionally, Ros the prostitute is a full invention of the TV show, and so is her death by crossbow at the hands of King Joffrey… just ‘cause. If viewers held any hope before that maybe Joffrey was just your average experimental sadist, Ros shot through to the bedpost was surely the final straw.

So thank goodness “someone” kills him

In A Storm of Swords, Joffrey Baratheon finally meets his demise. In the book it is unclear exactly who poisons Joffrey’s wine with the poisonous gem from Sansa’ hairnet; given his popularity, it could be just about anyone. His uncle Tyrion, who he had been drunkenly berating just moments before choking out in front of his pigeon pie, is ultimately charged with the (good) deed, but clues in the book heavily point to Olenna Tyrell as the culprit (see: hero). Given the influx in character development both she and Margaery have gotten in the show versus the books, this is likely to be more than just implied in Sunday night's episode.

Drink up, Joffrey.

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