Butternut, pecan, ricotta and sage pasties

These pasties require no baking tins, so can be knocked up quite quickly-even quicker if you buy pre-rolled sheets. You can make them any size you want. For a starter, they can be made with discs of pastry the size of a saucer; for a big group, roll out a large square, then fill and fold in half to give you a rectangle that you can simply slice across. Pumpkin and kumara also work really well in these pasties, and you can replace the pecans with walnuts, hazelnuts or pine nuts. If you don’t