DIY Kiwi Meat Pies

If your are anything like me you may have experienced the occasional craving for a good old Kiwi meat pie. The New Zealand equivalent of the obsequious north American hot-dog; they are surprisingly hard to come by in Canada. Well I don't have the address of a good local bakery with a meat pie cabinet but I may have found the next best thing...

Rachael Ray - the American cook with the grating New Jersey accent - has a rather excellent cookbook Rachael Ray 365 No Repeats. And Tucked away in it's pages is a recipe for 'Aussie Meat Pies'. Yes I know, Australians eh, always stealing our stuff.
Anyway, it's the closest thing I've found to a meat pie as we know it and makes for a darn good feed with lashings of tomato sauce (anyone got any Watties?).

So if you're a dab hand in the kitchen - or you can talk your better half into it - I suggest giving it a whirl. Your taste buds will thank you for it and you might just make it through another year without toffee-pops, filled rolls, fresh-cream donuts, fejoas, sally-luns, fruju iceblocks, L&P...