Pasties

I tried a recipe from the BBC Vegetarian Christmas Good Food magazine, a magazine I wish they still did a monthly copy of.

Their recipe was for a whole pie, which you rolled out to the size of a dinner plate.
I preferred to make smaller pasties than a whole pie.
They don't look as pretty as a whole pie would (and I changed the pastry from short crust to puff) but still taste good.

I made 5 and have frozen most of them for the future.

You chop 3 or 4 leeks and put in a pan with a knob of butter and some rosemary.

Cook on a low heat for 20 mins.

Slice 450g of potatoes, put in cold water and bring to the boil, cook for 5 minutes.

Mix both pans together, leave to cool.

Mix in 150g grated cheese.

Roll out the pastry and add the filling. Brush with egg round the edge and squish on the lid.

Brush with egg and cook at 200 degrees for about half an hour.

Cannelloni

In my veggie box this week I had a bag of spinach, so thought some cannelloni was in order.

I blanched the spinach, then chopped it up, and mixed it with 3/4 of a tub of ricotta, 1/2 a beaten egg and some nutmeg.

I then had a slight disaster with the piping bag, but managed to fill 9 tubes with my mixture.

I made a tomato sauce out of an onion, a couple of garlic cloves, some carrots a tin of chopped tomatoes, half a cup of water, some tomato puree and dried oregano.

The sauce simmered for a while whilst I was wrestling with the tubes (maybe about 20 minutes?) then I covered the filled tubes with the sauce and baked it for about half an hour.

So I have dinner for tonight and tomorrow, and a portion for the freezer.

A good result :)