handmade 3 cheese ravioli in wild mushroom sauce

a friend gave me a hand crank pasta machine last winter. he had 2. half a year later i decided to get over my irrational fear of it. what started the idea was the fact that i’ve had a cast iron ravioli press from the 1950s my whole life. i thought it was gone until [...]

lasagne bolognese with spinach gets 4 forks :-)

lasagne bolognese with spinach was my chosen first new years day dinner. it will be prepared on all future special occasions. and it was made in my toaster oven! i did a half order & i had a friend over in addition to the colonel. we ate 3 more servings today. so that’s 6 big, [...]

stracciatella soup & vintage pyrex

i thought it would rain today so i took the train to my job. this meant i would have to deal with the ingrediants i had on hand. i had made chicken stock a few days ago & really wanted to use it up even though i was not sure if that was too long [...]

meatballs are drama queens.

listening to MIA who i LOVE. this has nothing to do with my post haircut wednesday nite kitchen date. well actually it does. because in the words of siva, a great indian cook in kerala with whom i’ve taken a cooking lesson with, “you must dance, sing. then your food will be yum yum yum!!!” [...]