Today, as I was driving into school, two things happened.
The first was that, as I was driving, a gust of wind kicked up, bringing a lot of snow, making what was already lousy visibility much worse. So bad that I could not see the front of my car. All I could do was stop and hope that no one was behind me. If someone had been behind me, they wouldn’t have seen my car until they were on top of it, literally. Maybe not even then.
After a minute, the gust died down and I could see again. As I continued driving, the second thing happened: I heard the text message alert on my phone. When I could stop to check, I was unsurprised to find that classes had been cancelled. I wish they had been cancelled before I left home, but I was glad that no more students would try to drive in. I really wish, though, they had been cancelled before Ronni (and others) had driven into work.
Ah well, I returned home and got to work. Ronni made it back safely, too.
I did some school work and then got busy making another batch of pasties. These would be for lunches this week, rather than dinner tonight. I liked the idea of keeping them around for lunches so much, and had the ingredients for another batch, so I made them again. This time, I took pictures:
I made a couple of alterations. First, instead of trying to cut out the dough, I simply divided it into eights and rolled out each into roughly a circular shape. That accomplished two things. First, the size was closer to what I wanted for a lunch meal. Second, the dough gets stiffer every time you have to reroll it, so this way I only had to roll out each bit of dough once. Also, I don’t have anything about 6-8 inches to use to cut out the dough, anyway.
The other alteration was to use some of Ronni’s soy milk in place of the egg wash. I didn’t use an egg wash the first time I made the recipe. I think they turned out a little dry and didn’t brown up much. You can see that they browned nicely this time. Also, using a little soy milk on the edge of the circle, before crimping it closed, helps seal the pastry a bit better.
I haven’t tried them yet, but they look and smell delicious. Now I can’t wait for lunch tomorrow.
And now for the “random” part of the post… Last Tuesday, I took a picture of the hoar frost that covered the trees that day. I wish I had gotten a picture later in the day when the sky turned blue. The frost looks even better against the blue sky. This is still pretty, though. Enjoy!
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