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travelnutz
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Love pasties and make them a lot at home. Usually 19 to 12 at a time using Pillsbury pre-made pie crusts amd make them a full pie pan size and thick but never use the pie pan to bake them in. Wife and I split one and they are delicious with rich brown bravy full of sliced mushrooms. We put lots of finely sliced and chopped prime rib (can substitute brouwed ground round), chopped onions, chopped carrots, chopped parsnips, chopped rutabaga, chopped potato, multiple seanonings including coarse grnd pepper and salt inside and bake on a cookis sheet. Eat one and freeze the rest one per gallon zip lock freezer bag for a quick ready to eat very healty meal. The Cornish and the Yoopers wouldn't appreciate our variation and especially not the gravy but that's tough! So much better flavor than a pot pie and a lot less fat!
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travelnutz
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Forgot to add that the frozen pasties are fabulous quick meals when RVing or camping. Already cooked so just heat in a microwave or in an oven on low, or even above a campfire and walla! In microwave, cover with handiwrap or equivalent from frozen or thawed. Since they were slow baked to golden brown before freezing, they stay quite crisp rather that getting mushy. One pie pan sized pastie serves 2 glutens or 4 average eaters depending on how much filling you put inside.
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Brian in Michigan
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Then there is the whole Mackinaw / Mackinac thing. You know you are from Michigan when you use your car heater in the morning and then the air conditioning in the afternoon.
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Foggy
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Detroit is north of part of Canada.
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Deb and Ed M
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GreenSalsa wrote:you mean like this?  !
Exactly!!!!
I have a shirt that says "Smitten with the Mitten".
In MY parts (Yankee Springs State Park) we have a place where a HUGE chunk of ice remained as those glaciers left - dirt filled around it, but it eventually melted, resulting in a huge deep hole named "The Devil's Soupbowl"
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Deb and Ed M
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Oooh - and here's another amazing fact: we have the longest freshwater coastline of any state (not really a surprise, I guess) but we have the SECOND LONGEST "coastline" - period. (Alaska's is the longest)
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SRT
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Quality Johnson wrote:A good bar bet in Minnesota, and possibly in Michigan, is to ask someone to list the states that Minnesota shares a border with. Most will not know that there is a border with Michigan, and it only exists in Lake Superior, not on any land.
Yup, Isle Royale..... Hiked there with the Boy Scouts many years ago.
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Opie431
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Down here northern Michigan is the northern part of lower Michigan and there is a lot of the state that is more northern. And Down Below is the bottom third of lower Michigan.
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Orion
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Miscellaneous facts I know about Michigan from the couple of times we've driven through there.
It's a lot more rural than I thought, even the southern bit.
The river between Detroit & Windsor is a beautiful blue colour.
The people in the UP have a strange accent and to me it does NOT sound Canadian.
They sell Cornish Pasties in the UP. However when I went into my first Pastie shop to buy some & learn about them, the woman there asked why I kept calling them CORNISH pasties, as she'd never heard that term. Then she noticed the word on a large poster near the door!
on edit, Pasty rhymes with 'nasty' NEVER with 'tasty'.
Before going there, I had always thought that Michigan would be industrial, a bit gritty and full of honky-tonk bars! Wisconsin however would be very rural, with farm type people playing fiddles and going to church! Imagine our surprise then on going through a town right on the WI/MI border and the Michigan side looked 'normal' while the Wisconsin end of town had a bar, strip club, gentlemans club or massage parlour in every other building in the downtown!
Not only do you drive South into Canada from Detroit, but thirteen US states are totally NORTH of Canada's southernmost point and a total of twenty seven are at least partly NORTH.
Some roads in the UP are totally straight and it is very flat ( are there any hills in Michigan?)
My wife's cousin and aunt lives in Michigan and we had always wondered why they were emphatic that they now lived in St. Joseph after moving from Benton Harbour.
There were Northern Lights visible from Michigan a few days ago. ( Theoretically Isle Royale and the border area running up to Lake of the Woods is the best place to see them in the Lower 48.
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