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Does anyone remember pasta pasties?

Obtom
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Not sure if this is the right forum but I think it would make an economical dish (unless they're figments of my fevered imagination).

Does anyone remember, or have an idea how to make something I recall as an 'Italian-style' pasty? (it's probably never been anywhere near Italy, and maybe they were called Italian slices).

I used to get them at the Student Union shop, and also a handmade pasta shop in Bristol and they're basically sheets of lasagne pasta, rich tomato/ragu and all wrapped up in puff pastry. Fantastic for a carb-addict like me but I can't find them anywhere now...

Any ideas? Thanks!

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  • suki1964
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    Never heard of them :)

    But last week on Back In Time For Dinner, they made spaghetti puffs

    Basically they cut circles from puff pastry and stuffed them with spaghetti hoops - like a Cornish pasty, then deep fried them

    To me it sounded absolutely disgusting but the teenagers loved them
  • JIL
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    My adult children were together yesterday and they were talking about a wotsit potato product that apparently I bought a few times, it was a cheesy mash, shaped like a wotsit and baked in the oven. I can't remember them but they insisted it happened.

    As for the pasta pasties, I have never seen them but I have seen a scotch pie filled with macaroni cheese.
  • tizerbelle
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    edited 6 March 2018 at 8:15AM
    I'm up north - we satisfy our carb addiction by putting pies or pasties (shortcrust / flaky / puff pastry) in barm cakes (soft bread rolls) never heard of pasta pasties though.
  • THIRZAH
    THIRZAH Posts: 1,465 Forumite
    I remember having a lasagne pie once at the house of a -very frugal- friend of my parents. She just put pastry over a dish of leftover lasagne.
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    tizerbelle wrote: »
    I'm up north - we satisfy our carb addiction by putting pies or pasties (shortcrust / flaky / puff pastry) in barm cakes (soft bread rolls) never heard of pasta pasties though.

    A delicacy know as a Wigan butty.:)
  • VfM4meplse
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    Spider_In_The_Bath wrote: »
    A delicacy know as a Wigan butty.:)
    Up there with a chip butty :T
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  • katiepants
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    Italian pasty?

    Sounds like a calzone
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  • jackieblack
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    katiepants wrote: »
    Italian pasty?

    Sounds like a calzone

    A calzone doesn't usually contain pasta though
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  • JCS1
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    Used to be a deli near me that did a lasagne flan - that was amazing!
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