^ That folks is called a ‘Know-it-All’ headline, because it is a headline which offers practical advice or tips. Yeah, I’ve been brushing up on my writing skills as well as my cooking.
So, I love buying pasties from Gregg’s, but… god only knows what they put in them and they cost a pretty penny. So, I have taken to making my own.
The recipe I used is from the BBC food website. A lot of the recipes I use come from the BBC food website, but have no fear, there are other recipe creators out there. It’s just that the BBC food website tends to be the first return from Google and the ones that follow it are usually from some no-name website that was abandoned in the late 1990s (I just checked and the internet was around then and so was cooking).
Now as you know, I do simple, non-fancy cooking so I cut out half the crap mentioned in the BBC recipe. I mean, crushed walnut, they’re having a laugh, right? I just used:
- Flour, butter, and eggs for the pastry.
- potatoes (not new), cheese (certainly not smoked), and onions (just the good old-fashioned white variety) for the filling.
- And you can forget about the chutney. Ha! Chutney, as if!
So that is it! The recipe made 8 pasties. I put half in the fridge to eat that week and half in the freezer to eat at a later date. And if you are wondering, the pasties taste good cold or warmed up. And if you want to know what they looked like, you’re in luck, the camera my mum bought me for Christmas still works:
Pasty, I have a future in food photography.
