Bridies!

So . . . Bridies for Samhain.  Samhain is a Pie Holiday after all.  Practically a campaign slogan, right?  Not that I'm running for anything.  Nor am I volunteering for anything.  I'm like an anti-volunteer over here, trying to shuck tasks as quickly as possible.  Anyway, we're leaving for Samhain tomorrow and . . .

I can't find any puff pastry.  Craptastic.  I love all y'all, but I don't know if I have the strempts to make four pounds of puff pastry by hand tonight.  Anyone know if there's a puff pastry fairy I can call on?

Yay!  Cancel all that scaredy-talk up there.  The Safeway had puff pastry, so, um, Safeway must have employed the Pastry Fairy sometime between last night and this afternoon.  Isn't that good to know!  I may have gone a little overboard, but it was like finding gold.  Six pounds of gold, to be exact.  Now with the math:

     six pounds of pastry
     six pounds of beef
    four medium (pronounced meee-jum, of course) onions
    secret herbs and spices
    real gosh darn seasalt from Anglesey 
    Lanea's Bridie fu (as yet unmeasurable by Science)
+ three hours of hard labor (divided by good new stove and silpats)
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     108 Bridies
- dinner for Lanea and Skutai
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     104 Bridies

Friends.  That is a record.  And look at them:

Those aren't even the prettiest--they were just first out of the oven. 

I could claim that my friends like me because I'm nice, or because I am witty.  But looking at my kitchen right now, I'm convinced it's the Bridies.   Mountains of lovely Bridies.  And I think I'm ok with that.  I mean, I'd date me for the Bridies, especially if I brought me some HP sauce to have with the Bridies.  Add some Fraoch Heather Ale and I might even marry myself. 

Comments

[Jayme]

Did you try Wegman's? They have everything.

[minnie]

and i had arby's for dinner. gee thanks.

[Juno]

Really, if a bridie is a tasy meat pie as it seems, I would so totally marry you right now, because, yum.

[Nannyfodder]

I like you cause you're really cool, and well, those Bridies do look really yum...., and I finally listened to you and ordered my Tinsmith music and got it today.
So, I think you're up on all counts. But those bridies do look pretty good. But I can't help wanting to prounounce them like BRIDEIES. I know that's wrong. They should have fancy lace dresses on them and then we should eat them.
nanny - Don't mind me - I've lost my mind today.

[Tara]

The bridies were exquisitely yummy!! Yay pastry fairy and double-yay Lanea's bridie-fu.

[Rachael]

I'm so hungry just looking at those....