GREAT ideas! I'm gonna make some curried lentil-potato-peas-carrot ones right now. I like using textured vegetable protein (from barrio chino, soaked, well rinsed, fried in soy sauce to make meat crumbles) and pure de papa or other steamed vegetables.
My only innovation was to make little apple pie strudles. Chop one apple in eighths or twelths-in big chunks. Fry them in butter with a spoonful or sugar and a heaping of cinnamon, fry in a spoonful of brandy...or red or white wine, whatever you have on hand. Then wrap them, sprinkle some leftover butter from the pan on top, and bake them. One apple is enough for five or six empanadas with a 2 or 3 apple bits inside, which is enough for two people's small breakfast.