Alas, a wine glass has bitten the dust. Hard. We had visitors at the House of Q last night, including my in-laws and my sis, and during the post-dinner wine and movies I managed to transform a glass full of shiraz into a sharp-edged collection of shards and powerful staining liquid. Fortunately, I missed getting any on the new sofa cover, and we got the spill cleaned up before it could soak too badly into the floor.
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\nThe dinner was an experimental home-made pasta thing: ravioli with a ricotta and turkey filling. I’d pan-cooked the turkey on a bed of garlic and onion with Italian spices, then tossed it into a blender with the ricotta cheese. I’d been a bit concerned that the turkey and spices would be overpowering, but the ricotta has an amazing ability to bland down the flavor, to the point where I should probably have added more spices to the mix.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, the homemade sauce worked out quite well. And we’ve got enough left-over sauce and filling that I’ll probably do up a new batch of raviolis for dinner later this week.<\/p>\n
Something I need to remember with the pasta machine I’ve got is that it should be dialed-down thinner than I think I’ll need… It’s got a little dial from ‘7’ to ‘1’ on the side, with the lower numbers being thinner. Confusingly, that’s of the opposite of sheet metal guages<\/a>, where the lower numbers are thicker metal. Anyway, I’d done Sunday’s ravioli on a setting of ‘4’, and they were quite thumpy. I’ll see how things go at level ‘2’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alas, a wine glass has bitten the dust. Hard. We had visitors at the House of Q last night, including my in-laws and my sis, and during the post-dinner wine and movies I managed to transform a glass full of … Continue reading