When in the UP, Pasties

When one is in the UP, one has to eat like the local Yoopers.

That meant we had to try a pastie.

Last night after an 8 mile bike ride which included a ride around Lake Antoine and a tour of a small island, we ordered five different pasties from a little fast food place called Dobbers that made nothing but pasties.

We were planning on ordering four, but when we drove up we noticed there was a special, "buy four, get one free," so we brought home five of them.

 

Pasties were a lunch for the miners in this area back in the booming iron ore days.

They were easy to make and easy to eat.

Not to mention that they were rather inexpensive since you could fill them with any leftovers you had around.

 

We ordered a beef, chicken, pizza, and two ham and cheese pasties.

The beef and chicken ones had the meat, of course, potatoes, rutabaga, onions, and salt and pepper.

No wonder I enjoyed them, simple with no hidden items.

Real comfort food.

John and I agreed that the pizza pastie was the best.  It was stuffed with pepperoni, sausage, marinara, and cheeses.

We are planning on taking some pasties home.

We can have a bit of the UP with us back home in Wisconsin that way.

 

Back to our bike ride.

Here are a few pictures from our trip around the lake.

 Just a pretty, quiet spot at the beginning of our ride.

 A senior citizen park along the lake.

 Courtney, Paul, and the girls will arrive tonight and will be camping at this campground right on the Lake Antoine.

I am trying to climb the sign to join the kids on the top.

 There is a nice beach at the campground.

Nice, as beaches here in the north go.

Again that yucky brownish muddy sand, but the water looks clean and clear.

 This is the path we took to the little island.  It was beautiful on the island.

And finally, the sun was shining and making the water look so pretty.

It was a great way to spend a night up here in the UP.

We are feeling like real yoopers!