NATIONAL EMPANADA DAY – April 8

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[heterosupremacist]

[freedumb2003]

Just like the song “Girl from Empanada”

[SpaceBar]

Sounds both delicious and something your cardiologist would warn you about.

[heterosupremacist]

The girl from Impenema (2:04)

Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NldPFVKYmiw

[bigbob]

“Go make me an empanada” just doesn’t sound right

[Pollard]

Yup, they’re yummy

[TChad]

When is National Chimichanga Day?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Called Pasties in Michigan.

They are essentially all the same thing, a pocket pie.

You warmed them up over a small fire, or over your lamp if you were a miner and presto, a hot lunch.

[Rastus]

Called Pasties in Michigan

Means something different in Vegas.

[bgill]

I made the best empanadas earlier this week.

Dough
1 stick butter
4 oz cream cheese
1 C flour

Mix dough and refrigerate several hours. Roll out. Cut into rounds and fill. Bake at 375 for 15 - 20 minutes. Using a 3 3/4” empanada press yields 16.

The dough is what makes them. So flaky. Super easy. Had some leftover Salisbury steak so gave it, including the gravy, a whirl in the food processor for the filling. Hubby ate them up and says the recipe is a keeper.

If you want a sweet dough, add sugar.

[Viking2002]

I try to keep a box of these in my freezer for lunch:

A little Caribbean Walkerswood dipping sauce on the side........guuuuud.

[sean327]

I was born and raised in New Mexico. Never once heard them called Creoles.

[freedumb2003]

Tall and tan
and filled with onions
the girls with empanadas
goes runnin’
and as she runs by
each one she runs by goes
“ooooooo”

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"Empanadillas" at Seville Tapas in Princeton-by-the-Sea, CA are fantastic. They had Moroccan Beef filling a couple weeks ago. That was SO good!

[reasonisfaith]

One of the best is empanadilla de chapin, available in Puerto Rico. Chapin is otherwise known as trunkfish.

[Hiddigeigei]

Just back from Puerto Rica, I asked for an empanadilla at a Cuban joint in Miami. They didn’t know what I was talking about until I describe it. “Oh, you mean an empanada”, the lady said. The Chinese have something similar, called “chao-tze.”

[Tucker39]

Got to hand it to ya. You’re right up there on your music. Snicker-snort!

[Clutch Martin]

The local Walmart sells pork empanadas at the deli-counter. Not too bad but I’m not really into pork. Now chicken would be more my style. Or the seafood empanada sounds delicious.

[publius911]

NATIONAL EMPANADA DAY – April 8

I spent the first 8 years of my life in Central America, and although the shape matches, there, they were always sweet : fruit or a mixture of cheese and fruit.

[MomwithHope]

Thanks for the recipe!