This meat pie almost became an optical illusion, but it is now in the oven and should be ready for the evening food soon. I have made numerous such creations in my life as a housewife, but you can always improve the situation.
My cookery online web site were offering a new fantastic backing tray which makes everything much more crispy. You can see it in the picture with the various holes in it. The idea is that at the two sides you can pull it out to make it fit any oven I have now used it a few times and it does give a crispier result, as the hot air escapes through the holes.
I would be satisfied but when I put it in the oven the sides slip as it is not as stable as it should be and the whole thing lands on the bottom of the oven. I uttered many profanities and eventually gave up and put it on my normal oven baking tray, hoping the result will not be an optical illusion.
The second problem was the pastry I bought. It was already rolled out, I do not make pastry myself and on the plastic wrapping it said 2 flaky pastries for top and bottom which I wanted. It was even on a special offer, However I was surprised by the first illusion when I discovered the pastry was round and not rectangular as usual. My second problem was that it is vegan pastry. My store does not always have everything as I like it and it was all they had, but I did not realise that it was vegan. I know there are people that find vegan is the answer to their vegetarian dreams, but I am not vegetarian, never have been and probably never will be. Now I am stuck with a vegan pastry which I did not want.
Anyhow it is smelling OK in the kitchen and now I will get ready to serve it, vegan or not. I wonder how pastry can be vegan. Do they substitute the fat with something manmade? No idea, I am sure the cows will be happy that I am not using their milk for butter.
And here is the finished product.
Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss 
It looks delicious, vegan crust or not. I am often skeptical about vegan products because many products are just as bad for you as the non, and sometimes the things they do to make them work are not so good for the environment. But everyone has the right to decide what they want to eat or skip. Since I am rather picky it would be wrong for me to tell others what to do.
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I eat almost anything. My only problem is with milk and the lactose, but even then I survive if I do not overdo it. My cat never had a problem with food. If it moved it was usually a meal.
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Presumably regular pastry contains suet? I don’t know, vegan is too strict for me.
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I make everything with butter. My mum used suet for everything, never really liked it. The vegan pastry was not bad, but had no punch
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Funnily enough I read a post just this morning where somebody was saying they preferred goats’ butter over cows’ butter. I never even knew that you could buy it, let alone that one would tick the “vegan” box but the other would not. I get by on the Lidl immitation of Lurpac these days – because it is just as good.
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I like goats as an animal, but you can smell them before you see them. Any goat product seems to have the same smell
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Goats Cheese was one of the treats of visiting France. As long as it was creamy, I was in!
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