Today’s little slice
of “happitude” is...
Yummy
home-made pasta (made from scratch) and makeshift corkscrews...
Ruby decided to treat us to home-made, made-from-scratch
ravioli for dinner on our second night there. The boys wandered down to the pub
to watch a football match over a few drinks and I stayed home to make the ravioli
with Ruby.
It is quite a process indeed! Making the dough
is easy enough but rolling it through the pasta maker is the tricky bit... If
the dough is too thick or too thin by even the tiniest bit, the sheet of pasta
breaks and you have to begin the whole process all over again. Needless to say
it took a few failed attempts before we got our pasta sheets just right.
After that we placed one pasta sheet onto the ravioli
mould and added our filling (sundried tomatoes, basil pesto and mozzarella...
yummy!) and then we placed another pasta sheet over that and used a rolling pin
to seal the two pasta sheets together, forming our pasta pockets.
At this point the boys arrived home and were
very helpful in the final stages of the ravioli-making process... It takes
strong muscles to get the pasta sheets rolled out on the mould so that the
pasta pockets are formed without the corners breaking when you try to separate
them.
With the pasta cooking in a big pot on the stove
we decided that it was time for some wine but we realised that we had misplaced
the corkscrew... Jackson, in his infinite wisdom (and with a few beers in
already), decided to use his engineering skills and fashion a corkscrew out of
some DIY supplies. He was very confident that his design would be flawless
while the rest of us had visions of him with a hammer lodged in his skull... However,
he managed to open the wine with no injuries at all and was the champion of the
evening!
Delicious pasta, make-shift corkscrews and
plenty of laughs made for a pretty fabulous second day in the Cape.
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| Image property of Candice Curtis |
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