millet and mushroom tourtière

Not sure what a tourtière is? It's a meat-pie from Quebec that's typically served on Christmas or New Years. If you feel like learning more here is the Wikipedia page.

I've never had a real meat tourtière, but I hear they're quite tasty, if you're an omnivore who is into that sort of thing. But the idea of a meat pie sounded appetizing and comforting and I often thought of making a vegan one. I just never got around to it...until today.

With my dissertation in full swing now I am finding myself with very little spare time. Which means things like going to the gym get scratched off the to do list pretty quickly. So I ordered a few exercise DVD's from Amazon...and a new cookbook of course. I ordered Get it Ripe by Jae Steele as I had heard so many wonderful things about it. One of the first recipes I flipped to was the millet and mushroom tourtière.

I followed the recipe pretty closely, with the exception that I used Bryanna's low-fat oil pastry for the crust. I served it smothered in gravy. Mmmm....