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Ok! Only 12:47 am and the car is packed, food is made and I am snug in my bed pretending to be asleep but instead with a flashlight underneath my covers talking to the internet. Hopefully I'll be able to sleep tonight but I'm so excited that sleep will come hard.

Tonight my sister and I made some Empanadas for my road trip. I thought I would honor my ancestors, who knew a thing or two about traveling long distances, and make these delicious, golden, little pockets of goodness. What is an Empanada you say? How could you know me and not have had me shove one of these down your throat? Well here for your well rounded culinary delight is how to make Empanadas:

1 lb ground beef
1 1/2 large onion (chopped)
2 tomatoes (chopped)
1/2 cup of raisins
1 clove of garlic (minced)
1 bag of Goya brand Discos (10 count, yellow or white it doesn't matter)
salt & pepper to taste
2 hard boiled eggs
1/2 cup of vegtable oil

In a deep pan over medium heat sauté the onions, tomatoes and garlic until mostly cooked. Add the ground beef to the pan use a spoon to break up the beef and stir until brown. Add raisins, salt and pepper, stir. Leave on heat until the raisins have plumped up a bit and most of the water from the beef should be gone. Remove from heat.

Now spoon about 1 tbsp into the center of a disco, add a chunk of egg. Now slightly moisten the edge with some water. Fold the disco in half being careful not to spill the stuffing. Join the two edges together to make a half moon shape and with the tines of a fork press along the outer edge to seal the Empanada and to make it look pretty. DO NOT POKE HOLES.

I would advise if you are working by yourself to make all the Empanadas first and then go to the next step. Nothing's worse then burning you Empanada and accidentally making Stoopidnadas.

Fill a frying pan with about 1/2 and inch of oil and heat over a medium flame. Once the oil is hot fry each side of the Empanada take it out of the oil place on a some paper towels and eat!

There is a theory that you can bake Empanadas but every time I try I just get Stoopidnadas. So try to make this recipe healthy at your own risk!

Oh, also if you suck you can take out the raisins and use black olives instead. Blah! Olives!
1:35 am I should go to bed.