A lot of us know, after the cr Senate vote, how Caesar felt on the Ides of March.
Moving right along, I'm very tired, probably from the last few days and big decisions. Today I did my prescribed exercises, took a nap, did a load of laundry, took a nap, made vegetable pasties, took a nap, you see a pattern here.
Anyway I made these pasties
from yogurt based dough, stuffed with yellow potatoes diced, steamed carrots, chard, red onions and feta cheese crumbles. I seasoned the vegetables with homemade unami seasoning, oregano and Worcestershire sauce.
There was a bit of a disaster scene from all the cutting and rolling and flouring and stuffing and crimping.
And there's leftover stuffing I can put in soup or an omelette or something. Quite a cleanup ensued -- most of the debris is out of frame. But it was done, while the pasties baked.
25 minutes at 380°f
Pick up and eat food, easily rewarmed but you don't have to. This is what I need right now, easy food.
I also organized a Freecycle offering
and let's hope someone's going to be happy with them.
I got a very appreciative note about that party picture I sent to the embroiderers' memorial event. Evidently she did manage to print it out and another member had, on their phone, a picture of the holiday party ten years later. The members at the memorial had a good time picking out faces and comparing past to more or less present.
Happy day everyone, pick out the good bits to enjoy!
And speaking of Caesar
Just sayin.
The Roman number joke made me chuckle.
ReplyDeleteI am sure your pasties were delicious. I can't remember what 380 was, I think quite hot.
Do Americans know pasties? That is as in a Cornish Pasty?
Yes, though they're referred to by other names, same as pasty though. 380 is medium high.
DeleteI M LIVID! I love this. The pasties look delicious and sound like a whole lot of work. The clean-up would be satisfying for me.
ReplyDeleteYou never showed up so I had to do cleanup myself. The thing is this is meals for eight days, so when you amortize, it's not bad. Also it ensures daily good veggies, just with a minute of warming.
DeleteThat sounds like a lot of project for easy food. I hope you enjoy and get another nap or so today.
ReplyDeleteEasy when it's done! I had one last evening, very good, the pastry just right.
DeleteOffer what light you can. Yes
ReplyDeleteIt's the main idea around here, including jokes!
DeleteI believe in easy food too.
ReplyDeleteI love a little meal you can pick up to eat.
DeleteI might be a tad envious over the three naps. I hope they served their purpose.
ReplyDeleteIt worries me when I keep falling asleep after exertion. It goes against a lifetime of when in doubt do more.
DeleteI never could figure out Roman numerals when I was in school. Math was not my strong suite until I got into late high school and was able to switch to business math which made sense.
ReplyDeleteNaps are a good thing if you're lucky enough to get them. In this household the RC seems to think it's in his job description to keep me awake at all costs in hopes that I might sleep at night. Me, I'm just happy to get some sleep when I can.
HP used to try to wake me, even when I was exhausted, until a friend read him the riot act! He seemed to think naps weren't good.
DeleteI worked with a woman in the 1970s who gave me her mother's pasty recipe. Her mother was from England. It's been a long time since I've used it, I must get it out and do that. The roman numeral meme made me smile.
ReplyDeleteThere's a ton of pasty recipes. The one thing to remember is to crimp a nice step around the edge. That's what you pick it up by.
DeleteYou should have seen Lis's kitchen after I made three large batches of angel biscuit dough. Flour from stem to stern. I felt so good when I had the dough all combined in a very huge bowl, wrapped and put into a refrigerator and the kitchen clean again. There is probably still flour behind the coffee pot, though.
ReplyDeleteFlour gets everywhere. My trusty bench scraper is my friend for pastry and flour cleanup.
DeleteI learned about Finnish pasties that were very popular in northern Minnesota back when I lived with a Finn for seven years in the 80s. They're made with potatoes and a variety of (debated) ingredients...the hold-in-your-hand ones (made similar to yours) were sold all over the place but pasty pies were made at home or in restaurants. Goodness! I forgot about those! Delicious!!
ReplyDeleteYes, potatoes often feature, with a wide range of other savory things.
DeleteI love pasties! I love them even more when someone else makes them for me, lol. The Roman numerals pun is great!
ReplyDeleteIt's definitely easier with someone else doing the cooking.
Delete"Harnessing Peacocks"? I assume that's not non-fiction. :)
ReplyDeleteIt's the brilliant Mary Wesley. Just read it!
DeleteLove the Roman numerals!
ReplyDeleteIt's also a great reminder.
DeleteCan't go wrong with cheese and vegetables pasties. Keep on napping as you need to!
ReplyDeleteMy feeling exactly.
DeleteI ate the best pasty of my life (so far) in Northern Ireland. Do you associate places/events with specific foods? I think I've always done that. Also boyfriends...the one who introduced me to a spinach soufflé, the one who made a wonderful potato and leek soup...oh great, now I'm hungry again.
ReplyDeleteThat's an interesting viewpoint. Food wasn't an interest in my life till comparatively recently, so I can barely associate food with the various places I've been. I expect I had nice meals, but they didn't register. Hmm.
DeleteOh these pasties do look yummy. Sorry making things from scratch made for bigger cleanups. I am more lazy than you, and don't bother. There's the makings for a spinach quiche just yelling at me to bake them up. But I take leftovers and heat them instead. Dull dull dull. oh a friend said she looks for joy every day, and at the end of the day she asks herself what joys she had during the day. She's ok with seeing a bug, or a rock too!
ReplyDeleteI like that idea about daily joy a lot. I don't really mind cooking from scratch, because then I know what I'm getting. Even cleanup is okay, done while the oven's going.
DeleteI have the same rolling pin as you! And Barbara reminds me that I have the makings for a spinach quiche as well. Now that things have slowed down a bit with only one worksite, I can take the time to do things like that again, and it is a good time to make things and tuck them away for healthy meals later.
ReplyDeleteThe rolling pin was a gift from Handsome Son many years ago. I love it, such good movement.
DeleteI've had three nap days myself.
ReplyDeleteI see nothing wrong in taking naps. In fact I highly recommend them. Your pasties look great
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