Now I know Schitt’s Creek has already returned for season 4 in Canada, but since it hasn’t arrived in the US or Australia yet – hustle it up please Netflix – we’re continuing on with our All Up in Schitt’s Creek celebration by catching up with my dear friend and on-screen life coach Emily Hampshire.

Plus – I billed it as a countdown slash celebration, so I don’t even feel I owed that explanation. But you got it anyway, for some reason.

Anyway, after kicking things off with the heads of the Rose clan – in the form of Eug and Cath – I felt I needed to break things up with the only non-Rose to score an invite, and new my girl Em was the only person for the job. Despite Dustin and Tim being total babes and Sarah Levy being the absolute sweetest.

I actually met Em through Cath when they co-starred in The Life Before This in ‘99. I was part of Cath’s entourage at the time, but was blown away by Em’s talent and vowed to also make her a star.

Given how busy she has been with both 12 Monkeys and Schitt’s Creek, Em and I haven’t been able to see as much of each other as we’d like recently, so it was so great for her to be able to make the time to reconnect and take a much needed rest.

We laughed, we cried and we held each other close as we devoured a fat slice of Canada’s finest by way of my Emily Hampshourtière.

 

 

You know I am a big ol’ fan of big ol’ slabs of meat, so tourtière is right up my alley. Spicy meat and potatoes, encrusted in the shortest of short pastries? I’m in heaven when this Quebec native is in my mouth. I’m speaking of the pie, obvi.

Enjoy!

 

 

Emily Hampshourtière
Serves: 4.

Ingredients
olive oil
1 onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
500g pork mince
500g beef mince
2 potatoes, grated
¾ cup beef stock
½ tsp cinnamon
½ tsp nutmeg
¼ tsp allspice
1 tsp celery salt
2 bay leaves
salt and pepper, to taste
2 ½ cup flour
225g unsalted butter, cubed
1 cup cold water
1 egg, whisked

Method
Heat a lug of oil in large pan over medium heat and cook the onion and garlic for about five minutes, or until translucent and fragrant. Add the pork and beef mince and brown for a couple of minutes, breaking up with the wooden spoon as you go. Add the potatoes and cook for a further five minutes before adding the stock, spices, bay leaves and a good whack of salt and pepper. Reduce heat to low and simmer for half an hour, or until all the liquid is absorbed. Remove from the heat, take out the bay leaves and allow to cool.

To make the pastry, blitz the flour and butter in a food processor with a pinch of salt until it resembles wet sand. Add half a cup of cold butter and continue to blitz until it comes together. Just. If you need more water, add it a dash at a time, until the dough is holding its shape and smooth. Form into two discs, wrap in cling and chill in the fridge for an hour.

Preheat oven to 180°C.

When you’re ready to go, take the dough out of the fridge and roll one out until it is roughly a few millimetres thin. Press the dough into a pie dish and top with the meat mixture, pressing it into the dough to keep the filling together. Roll out the second piece of dough, lay it over the top and press together to seal the edges. Tuck in any excess pastry down the sides or trim neatly, whichever you’d prefer.

Cut a couple of steam vents into the top, brush with the egg and bake for about 50 minutes, or until golden.

Remove from the oven and allow to rest for about ten minutes before devouring, contently.

 

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