http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierogi

They're really good. My friend in HS invited me up one day when she and her sis and mom and grandma were following an old family tradition of making hundreds of them. The Grandma was straight from Croatia or something, so they were traditional. And quite good.

Now I just buy frozen Mrs T's when I get a hankering. Filled with potato and cheddar cheese.:blush:

I luv them filled with potato and onion and served with sour cream and applesauce. I also like sauerkraut filled pierogis.

They look pretty similar to empanadas except that they're baked or fried which would actually make them the equivalent of a pasty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empanada

Pierogi are pretty much Polish for ravioli, but with potato and a lot less cheese.

I'm sorry, that typo made me giggle. I imagined potato-filled pasta pockets as pasties. How will we make them stay on? :D

I buy the frozen, boil them to thaw, and saute them for a few minutes in butter. They are not crispy like empanadas, which I also love.

Went to a church festival at a big Catholic church in town last night. It was within walking distance from my friends' house, which is good as the festival consists of beer and gambling. I saw a lot of people I haven't seen in a long time. I never did ride the funslide, for which I am sad. I also never got any sugar waffles.

I spent the night at friends' house: they actually have my old bed that I gave them years ago when I had moved and didn't need it anymore, set up downstairs in their house. It was like having my own apartment with cable and my own bathroom.

Two dollar drafts, the cornerstone of any church festival. ;)

It might not have been a typo. In the UK they are, indeed, called pasties. I was in a play in high school where the principal made us change the script because he just knew we'd get complaints from parents, even if the word was legitimate.

Ha ha ha...didn't know that. :)

It wasn't a typo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasty), but after thinking 'huh' initially and making sure that I really had checked my spelling before posting, I have now learned there is more than one meaning.

That's what you get for learning English from the English.;)

Reminds me of Aunt Bessie's Mash Van in the summer in Newcastle. Mashed potatoes, gravy and mushy peas in a cone.

Cone? As in an ice cream cone?

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say no, not ice cream cone :P

More likely a stiff card cone' like a paper cup...but a cone.

IIRC, it was an edible cone of some sort. The horror of the whole concept has blurred the details.

If it weren't for the description of the peas as "mushy," I would totally eat that.