I learned how to make these when I worked at the Renaissance Festival. My bosses, Rick and Reenie, were Michiganders where this dish is quite popular.

Pizza and Pasties are both easy to make delicious lunchtime meals. So why not Pizza Pasties? These were fun to make & the whole family loved them.

pasties are a traditional food in the northern Michigan mining communities.

I'm Finnish, and my grandmother always made these. She used lard but the butter flavored crisco works well also. (:

Miners pasties - taken down the mines wrapped in paper would keep the men going all day. Grandpa used to have a flask of gravy to pour in each half and scoop the filling out with a spoon, so the pastry had to be solid but after eating the filling it was soft and delicious. Granny also used to bake them half and half so the one side had the meat and veg then a pastry barrier and stewed fruit in the other half - if you're not a miner you could make 6-8 pasties for a family picnic

My wife wanted a cheese and onion pasties that she use to have when she was a little girl at home with mum.

Pasties are a Cornish tradition. Bake some meat and vegetables into a crust and you've got a great, hearty lunch that's packed to go. It's the original 'Hot Pocket'.When Cornish miners emigrated to mining communities around the world, they shared this tradition. My grandma grew up in Gold Country here in CA where pasties are as much a part of local culture as they are in Cornwall.This isn't really your standard pastie though. I strayed from traditional recipes in that I used a little sourdough starter to improve the flavor of the crust. And the spices in the filling are probably not standard either. But I'd say you can fill these guys with just about any thick, stew-like substance you like. If you want to make your own filling, just skip straight to step #8.This is definitely a big project, but well worth the work.

Forfare Bridies a traditional Sottish pastie filled with ground lamb

#cookpadramadan#CookPadRamadan#RamadanSpecial"Iftar specials"This is my own recipe.. just tried by putting ingredients and turned out amazing.

So easy! Its like a stew pot pie! I used a left over gravy from stew I made a couple days before. Gonna add carrots and use pearl onions in the next batch. Awesome!!! :chef