That went better than expected.Remember the puff pastry sheets we bought at Fu-Wah for $1.39? Those are going to go a long way. I can't wait to put more things in them and crisp them up.
Here's what I did with them tonight.
Remember the Gimme Lean soy sausage I bought at Trader Joe's the other day? It was for this purpose. I fried up the soy sausage in olive oil with onion and portabella mushrooms, and the sweet little fennel seeds.
After sprinkling some flour on a plate, I laid out the puff pastry sheets and filled them with the mixture. Notice how thin each sheet is, compared to the whole block of pastry sheets. There are a ton of these things. $1.39 is going to go a long way, and that's how you afford things like brownies and really good olive oil and fresh-baked bread.
Heat about a quarter inch of olive oil over a high gas flame, if you have one (high electric heat, I suppose, if you don't.) Or a campfire!
Drizzle all around the edges of the pastry sheets with olive oil, fold the sheet over into a triangle and press the oil-coated edges of the sheets together.
Sizzle in the oil for about 5 seconds per side.
The batch of filling shown above filled five pastry sheets. Arrange them on a plate and mix up a dipping sauce of olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and ground rosemary.
These were delicious. We won't always have soy sausage, but you can also stuff them with yellow squash or patty pan squash, which cost about $1 a lb. and are pretty light on the scale.
Squash would be good with fennel, mushroom, onion, you could throw in some beans if you wanted it to be heartier.
You could do corn and tomatoes and dip it in black bean dip.
We have that quinoa.
I'm having racing thoughts about potatoes and the blender.
And then sweets. I have apples and peaches. You could also do pear. Berries. Oh my god. But nobody's had any berries for a long time, I guess they're out of season. Peaches, apples, pears are here now.
Oh, puff pastries for $1.39 from Fu-Wah. This is a good investment.
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I love it. Going to try this.
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