Like a squirrel preparing for the long winter ahead, I too have been feeling the urge to stock up, so last night was pasty night in my house. Nope, not those little sticker things with tassels, although, I don't know which my husband would have preferred....hmmm. No, these are the super delicious, stuffed pastry, northern Michigan kind that you eat, and i made a ton!
The recipe that I roughly used told me that it would make about 20-30, so i cut it in half. Somehow, though, I still ended up with 20-30 filling mixture, and enough dough for only half that. The crust is just a basic kind of pie-like recipe.
The filling is made of a mix of ground beef and pork, salt and pepper to taste, melted butter, cubed potatoes, rutabaga, carrot, and chopped onion. So simple.
It was so much filling that I barely had a bowl big enough to mix it in.
We ate a bunch for dinner (although one is really the appropriate serving size) and then I froze the rest, including the excess filling to use later, for winter.
That is if I can resist their deliciousness until then ( had one again for lunch today!).
And like a good troll (a Michigander that lives under or rather south of the Mackinac Bridge), I give my pasties a generous helping of gravy. YUM! Oh and check out the creeper in the background of this last picture...it's my cat Irvin soooo wanting in on this.
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