Easy way to separate egg whites.

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8. You know those fruit pie things

you can get at the store? You know, the half circle thing with a bit of jelly?

Thats a cruddy empanada. You take pie crust dough, cut it into a circle. Then you put some filling in the center, not necessarily desert stuff either. I like to make "sandwich" empanadas; ham and swiss, beef and onion, peperoni and cheddar... My favorite is garlic mashed potatoes with slivers of carrot.

Anyway, then you take egg yolk and brush it all around the edges. Pure egg yolk is straight up glue. Fold your dough over, smooth out the lump of fixin's in the middle, make sure there are no air pockets and your edges are sealed (more egg wash may be needed), then take a fork and pinch the edges together. Bake at 400 or fry, and enjoy.

You can freeze uncooked ones, or cook them and freeze them. If you wrap them in plastic or use a seal-a-meal type device, you can freeze them for MONTHS and just bust out a batch whenever you need a quick meal. Oh, and pro tip; don't try to make thin ones you can reheat in the toaster. You'll, uh...probably ruin your toaster if you do (leaks sometimes occur).

If you get curious, PM me and I'll give you a recipe for the dough I use.