Before
the damson diversion I was talking about portable/picnic food. I
can't believe it's nearly September and with the unreliable weather
and Autumn approaching so the opportunities for picnics and al fresco
dining diminishes.
What
comes next is from the back catalogue and was to be part of the
portable/picnic food, fortunately it qualifies on many other levels
and so ticks several boxes.
My
favourite savoury guilty “take away” pleasure is a pasty and it
has to be cheese, potato and onion. During lockdown the “takeaway
treat” became known as a “make at home treat”!
Imagine
my joy on discovering an M&S version of said treat –
here's a photo :
They
looked so tempting I couldn't resist. The filling wasn't generous
and the tiny pieces of potato were undercooked. It may be that I
was unlucky and got a “Friday afternoon pasty”.
I
thought they looked very much like Cornish pasties. However
Cornish are made with specific pasty pastry – puff pastry
didn't work – when you got towards the crimped edge the pastry was
rock solid with little or no filling – to be specific over 2cms/¾”.
Have
a look :
It's
rare for me to criticise M&S, believing their products to
be a cut above and not objecting to paying over and above other
similar versions available. In fairness I should have taken them
back but with the present situation being as it is I didn't think
that was particularly sensible. I've no doubt I'd have been given a
replacement sadly if you'd had to go to the bother of returning
you've definitely lost the thrill of a treat.
There's
confusion with this pasty – it is clearly intended to be a
variation on a theme of the Cornish classic which, for the
reasons explained, didn't hit the spot for me. It's time to put this
to the test – a marriage of pasty pastry with a cheese, potato and
onion filling.
Fingers
crossed!
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