so. much. pasta.

[kaberett]

right, so, that pasta dough I was having a panic about the other day?

I'd intended to make 500g-of-flour's worth of pasta. I... ended up using the full kilo bag. (Next time I might try actually weighing the spinach, but also, I grew the spinach for the green pasta, I am very proud.)

Thus far I have made: ravioli for three on Sunday, tagiatelle for two plus... a lot... to dry... yesterday, and ravioli for two today. Along with 48 ravioli in the freezer to be future food, and... just over a quarter... of the dough... still left...

... along with some of the roast garlic/butternut squash/ricotta filling...

So tomorrow's food-job is to Finish Up Making The Damn Pasta

-- STOP PRESS THERE'S A NEW ERIN MORGENSTERN BOOK OUT IN NOVEMBER --

... probably some of which will be for dinner but most of which... will go into the freezer to be Yet More Future Food, hopefully thereby mostly finishing up the filling. (If not, that too can go in the freezer.) (If I do finish the filling and still have any dough left over then I... suppose... I make... lasagne...?)

I have tidied the kitchen... some. I had hoped to Finish The Pasta today so that the entire worksurface that is currently given over to the Pasta Production Line could be Emphatically Reclaimed but Alas I am Not There Yet and apparently I should go to sleep instead of just... pasta... forever.

(This is not the most exciting thing that happened today, honestly, but it's the easiest to write about, and comes with an accompaniment of "and yet SOMEHOW I have spent the past several days wretchedly anxious about how I am clearly An Indifferent Cook At Best and everyone is just humouring me", so, there you go, there is a vignette about my life that honestly probably gives you a better flavour -- see what I did there -- than the actual Events.)

Comments

[alexwlchan]

honestly probably gives you a better flavour

You cannot say things like that and then be upset when we all make terrible puns around you and think we’re incredibly funny.

And hooray for pasta! All the pasta. So much pasta. Delicious pasta. Mmmm.

Is anybody else feeling hungry?

<3

[alexwlchan]

Also, pasta etymology fact you might enjoy: the singular for “spaghetti” is “spaghetto”. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Citations:spaghetto#English

[kaberett]

yep. :D see also my getting mildly grumpy about "paninis" and "ciabattas" ;)

(I do in fact refer to single ravioli as raviolus et cet, which is Not in fact Italian and is mostly because I learned too much Latin as a small child and think I'm hilarious.)

[kaberett]

BROCCOLUS. Broccolus is the other one I do it with a lot.

THIS IS A MUCH MORE SERIOUS ANSWER THAN YOU WANTED

[kaberett]

Right so I think, as best I can work out though I am very much still poking at it, I get quite ...??? about puns as a thing in and of themselves, but am likely to Appreciate them and them-adjacent felicitous language when it's a component of communicating something other than the pun. I think they're? just a form of small talk? that I haven't really wrapped my head around in isolation productively?


also please come visit and eat the pasta, there is so much. s o m u c h.

[archangelbeth]

That sounds like lovely pasta, and yay for homegrown spinach? O:D

[kaberett]

GREW A PLANT. EAT A PLANT.

Still a little confused by the entire process but very excited. ;)

[archangelbeth]

Growing plants is magic! Or at least something I can never quite do most of the time. >_>

Growing plants for eating is EVEN MORE MAGIC!