Sunday pasta Sunday is pasta day in our family. Today we tried a new variety of pasta, the name on the package is Maccheroni Al Ferretto. I purchased it and fairly new store in our area called Lidl. It is a product of Italy. We made it with a tomato meat sauce and sausage, with Ricotta and a mix grated cheese on the side. Italian bread and a salad with iceberg lettuce, tomato and cucumber.
Funny, I seem to eat pasta on Sundays as well. No real intent, it just happens that way. But since my roots are English and German, it ain't gonna compare with something made by a guy named Tony. -Salad -Ravioli in marinara sauce -Garlic bread -Fudgesicle
I love ravioli. I was in Disney World a few years ago the rest of the family went their own way, I was standing in one of the food court when a young lady walk by with a plate with one ravioli on it about 8 inches in diameter. She said they were selling them at one of the kiosks, but I never got there to try them to this day my mouth is watering for one.
I love ravioli. It's a big slab of tasty pasta with some filling. I've been making my own pasta for about a year now, and bought some punches. One of the punches is smallish...makes starred rounds. I use a cookie press with an icing tip on it to shoot out little blobs of a 4 cheese filling. Man, there is nothing like a big plateful of those with a fresh marinara sauce. (Tonight's offering was Italian sausage/spinach/ricotta.) I've got a couple of tomato plants in containers on my deck. One of them is San Marzano tomatoes (the only type I'll make sauce with), and is really putting forth clumps of those bad boys. I can't wait to make my first batch of sauce with them. I started a pasta thread here, but haven't posted to it in a while. I'm lucky to have access to farm eggs. Makes all the difference.
You're right there is nothing like fresh Farm eggs. Way back when I had about 30 - 50 hens. After being attacked a few times no roosters. Everyday during the laying season we would collect about two and a half dozen eggs. The height and color of the yoke was so much different then what you get in the grocery store. I had leghorns, Rhode Island red, the Easter chicken which I can't pronounce the name, they would give you different color of eggs purples, Blues. I can't remember the names of all the varieties, I had one nice size pen with nesting boxes, and a portable pen that I place in my vegetable garden so that they could eat any weeds, weed seeds, and bugs. They were my clean up crew. I remember carrying 50-lb bags of laying pellets from the driveway in the front of my house to there pen about 200ft away. It was easier then looking for the wheelbarrow. I can go on about my chicken I loved it.
All this pasta talk! I made rigatoni with Italian sausage and artichokes for dinner, with garlic bread and salad.
Pepper steak in a delicious meat gravy (beef, peppers, & onions slow cooked till fall apart tender) Spooned onto white rice Italian bread and butter
The better half is having an upper & lower GI exam tomorrow (endoscopy/colonoscopy) so he's not eating anything but chicken broth today. I'm having a ham sandwich for dinner.
I wish him well with excellent test results Ham is my favorite cold cut meat I like my ham sandwich with Swiss cheese and mustard.