Thanks for the recipe requests.
The pastry wasn't that hard to make, it was just time consuming and very messy. I am known around these parts as the "World's Messiest Cook" and this recipe made me look good (bad?). I do clean up after myself, though.
Anyway, the pastry recipe came from a cookbook that Mi Lady found for me last Christmas. I recommend this one. It is called, cleverly, "Jamaican Cooking - 140 Roadside and Homestyle recipes" by Lucinda Scala Quinn. I have prepared several recipes from it and have been happy with them. They were just the bomb!!
The veggies were just a concoction that I came up with. I needed about 6 to 7 cups of cooked veggies, so I gathered stuff that I already had -
3 cups cooked homegrown callaloo
1/2 cup slightly cooked diced sweet potato
1/2 cup slightly cooked diced carrot,
1/2 cup yellow onion
1/2 cup red onion
1 cup diced yellow squash - use chayote if you can find it
I wanted to add a cup of cooked cabbage, but old timers disease struck at the grocery this week.
garlic, salt, pepper, and Jamaican spices to taste
one whole Scotch Bonnet pepper, smuggled out of Jamaica last April
Cook it all together for a while, take out the whole pepper (what a waste), and let it cool a bit before stuffing the pastry.