Saturday, September 30, 2006
Making Midrats
This past week a Yooper asked if I was interested in helping to make pasties for a midrat meal this Friday night. That sentence needs a little explaining.The Yooper that I'm talking about is David. I can't remember when I exactly met him, but since I found out he's from the UP (Upper Peninsula of Michigan) I've been calling him a Yooper... cause that's what they're called! He calls me Cheesehead, and we're always teasing each other in the halls.
Pasties (pronounced paa-stees) are a meat and vegetable filling in a pie crust which is then folded like a calzone. David (aka Yooper, aka Schieds... a work nickname) was telling me that two of his friends make hundreds of pasties every day for their restaurant in the UP. I've only had them a few times, but that's more than anyone else on station. I guess that makes me the first-choice for pastie-making around here.
The midrat meal is the meal served at midnight for all night workers. There is usually one cook and one dining attendant during Win-Fly midrats. Starting sometime in the next two weeks there will be two cooks and five or six DA's, I think. Last night, Todd the midrat DA was off, so it was a good thing I showed up or the pasties wouldn't have gotten made.
Welcome to Yooper Night!
We mixed up the ground beef, sausage, diced potatoes, carrots, and onions. Here are photos of the Yooper (aka David), the fillings, and me!
Our pasties crust was handmade by Christina the baker.
Mandy and Stacy cooking up a surprise in the kitchen. They weren't involved in the making of the pasties, but I had to snap a photo anyways.
Pasties in the oven!
Quality Control, as Susan called it.
The cooks!
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