Does anyone remember pasta pasties?

Obtom

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!

suki1964

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

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

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

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

Spider_In_The_Bath wrote: »

A delicacy know as a Wigan butty.:)

Up there with a chip butty :T

katiepants

Italian pasty?

Sounds like a calzone

jackieblack

katiepants wrote: »

Italian pasty?

Sounds like a calzone

A calzone doesn't usually contain pasta though

JCS1

Used to be a deli near me that did a lasagne flan - that was amazing!