Meat and veggie pie, love it.

We have eaten pot pies a lot, both commercial and homemade. Seems the most prevalent is turkey, after Thanksgiving. As I get older I find more and more similarities in cuisine, but different names. For instance, my hubby is from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where a lot of people from Wales and Finland settled. Miners. A favorite lunch box meal is the Pasty. A folded hand held pie. Often contains ground beef, rutabagas, potatoes, onions and carrots. In Nebraska it is Runza--cabbage, meat and cheese in a bun, and in Kansas it is a Bierock, same thing. I have a casserole for Runza/Bierock that has and upper and lower crust made of crescent roll dough. Very good. Then of course there is the Polish Pierogi. Can even have eggs. Then the German Mennonite Verinika which is eggs and cottage cheese. Beni Bierogi is a dessert made with mashed pinto beans and vanilla sauce. . . I guess that might be vegetarian. Southwestern areas have tacos, both hard, which is open and soft which are rolled like a burrito, but smaller. Of course they have Empanadas as well. Then you move to the Bisquik impossible pies. . . usually meat and veggie and a can of soup or some tomato sauce or gravy topped with a Bisquick topper. Yummy, it is fall and it is time to eat these warm and substantial foods.

I have done shepherd's pie which is a combination minced meat, cheese, macaroni,basil leaves,(tulsi), french beans, et al. Ofcourse it needs to be covered with potato mash and the baked.

These are so good. I Love homemade meat pies. I have had them where you put the meat, etc. with your mashed potatoes in a shell and it is great as well. Personally you are now making me hungry, and wish I had the time and money to put one of these together.

When my husband was alive, and the boys had not gone and married out, I used to make beef stew with carrots, onions,and peas sometimes, and if there was too much would make meat pies.. I grew up on meat pies, being Canadian, but I found I never had that much luck and did not like chicken pies. I have also made shepherd's pie with the mashed potatoes and grated cheddar cheese on top. The thing is that even though there are vegetables in them, we do not call them meat and vegetable pies. I have made the recipes out of my head as a way to stretch leftovers. I find that it is better then the ones you buy in the stores. I guess you could also make Cornish pies or turnovers out of them as well.

Filipinos seldom or if ever make pies in crusts that have meat and vegetables in them, we are already contented with Pizza we however make and at times crave for a food called " empanada", it's something we inherited from the Spanish (most countries that were former Spanish or Portuguese colonies have a version), it's a smaller version and more crescent than round, ours have a filling that ranges from pork to chicken, carrots, potatoes, peas, raisins etc... inside. The sauce is similar to what we use in dimsum and at times put hot chili sauce instead of gravy, really delicious, very convenient to eat too, I buy myself in the mall when we don't have time to make and finish it off while shopping.

Id love the recipe sounds so good. Id also love to see a recipe blog or recipe trade area here at mylot. With so many people from so many different countries it would be great to see our favorite recipes posted here.