and that means three things. Awesome free shows, ironic t-shirts galore and day drinking

all day free beer usually.

All right, so when you're going out and you're going to plan on drinking all the free shit

that you can possibly get your hands on all day long and you're out in the sun and you're

sweating your balls off you need to bring some snackies with you or else you will die.

I know that people think I'll just go out and get some snacks at the Taco stand, but

that Taco stand is clogged up with tight-pants wearing fools. So I'm going to make Empanadas

today, so I can throw them in my backpack. Then, in a few hours, when all my friends

are wasted they're going to be all like, man, these are the best things you ever made for

me because they are too drunk to know any better. Boom!

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So I'm going to start with my filling first. I'm doing a vegetarian filling, since it's

not going to be refrigerated expect for the other beers that are in my backpack. I've

got like a ten-ounce package of frozen spinach I think here that I just microwaved and squeezed

all the water out that I could because I don't want the water to get them all soggy, there's

nothing worse than a soggy empanada. Now, I have a potato that's already been beeled

and hoiled, boiled and peeled. Then I'm just going to cube because I want there to be some

carbohydrates and stuff in my little snacky. Mix that in there and I'm just going to improv

some spices and put in some salt.

I've got some, I don't know, that's probably half a teaspoon or so, some cumin seeds and

put in a little cinnamon. You can put whatever you want in an empanada; it's awesome in that

way because this is just what I happened to have around. I'm going to slice up some cheese

and, hopefully, not slice off my finger. This is Oaxaca cheese, which is similar to a mozzarella

and I'm just going to make some chunks that I can put in. I think I'll make six empanadas

and that means I need six evenish pieces of cheese.

I'm going to use a pre made pie crust dough today. Get one, it's like usually it's stored

with the biscuits and stuff. It's not already in a pie pan. Then what you get is this because

you can always make your own pie crust if you like making something to take to your

in-laws house for Thanksgiving, but this is just a bunch of stupid idiots asking you for

free food when they're all drunk on beer, so you don't need to give them anything awesome

and by stupid idiots I mean my best friends, but really it's good, it's fine, whatever.

I'm going to just roll it out though to make it a little thinner, so I'll put my flour

down and also wipe off your countertop really good before you do this. If you have a fancy

marble slab, then use that, but I don't because I am poor. If you want to buy me a marble

slab, that's wicked. So when you're rolling your pie crust you want to start at the middle

and pull it out evenly on all sides. It looks pretty good. I'll probably get like empanadas

out of each one of these things.

I'm just going to use a bowl as my form. Ooh, maybe I can get three; that would be bad ass

and just use my little paring knife. God, I hope I'm not screwing up my not cheap countertops

by doing this. I'm totally going to get three out of here. Sweet! Now, pull up this and

set it aside and you could re-roll it and make more later if you want to. I'm going

to start with this. Get this business over here and how you do is like so and maybe a

couple of tablespoons. This is probably six inch round, so maybe just two tablespoons

of filling.

Then a little bit cheese. Fold it over, and I've got a little glass of water here. I'm

going to wet my fingertips to make it seal. Get in there cheese. I didn't ask you to come

out. You come out in my mouth when I'm ready for you to come out. There, ta-da. I'm just

going to crimp it. You can use a fork, maybe I'll do a fork next time to show you people

how some other people might do it, but this is how I'm doing it now because I didn't get

a fork out earlier.

Empanada put it on an ungreased cookie sheet. One time when I was at South by Southwest

a couple of years ago and I had been out all day long and I did not know at that time that

you should always bring snackies it was probably like 10 o'clock or something and we're all

drunk as shit and wandering around from place to place and then were these dudes riding

these weirdo bicycles that they made that were like tricycles, but for adults. He wanted

to let me ride it, but his was all broken, but anyway he did have a backpack with bread

and baloney and American cheese slices. Man, that dude was hit of the party because he's

showing up with baloney and cheese sandwiches and everyone's all drunk and ready to eat,

so that's going to be this year, but I'm making empanadas.

Hey! So, I got my six empanadas. I'm going to take my fork and just poke a couple of

holes in the top to let the steam out so that they don't explode everywhere. I have some

more stuff left over and I have some more I think I'm going to try to make some and

fry and them too, but these are going to go in the oven, 400 degrees for 20-30 minutes,

but I'm going to come back and do some fry business.

So my beautiful empanadas are out of the oven. I'm going to set them on this cooling rack

so that they cool off completely before I put them in my Tupperware because if I put

them in while they're hot they're going to get all soggy and weird and then I'll them

in my backpack. Then I'll go have fun all day and you can enjoy these anytime you want

to make them. Go ahead and make them and then tell me what you did.

In the meantime, I'll see you later. Go subscribe to my YouTube channel, please and bye.