The weather this weekend and last week lead to help us have a lazy weekend, probably one of our last for months! Because it had been so dry the past week few of our seeds have germinated and their was little weeding to do. Because of the heavy rain on Friday and Saturday it was to mucky to plant or be in the fields much...
On Saturday it was rainy and yucky, so we took the chance to straighten the house a little (it needed it!) and then go get our cell phone plans switched about to a family plan from two separate ones, it seemed like it should have been pretty quick and easy, both of us were out of contract and up for new phones, so give us our new phones, and stick our plans together and we'll be done. Instead the process took two hours, but the guy who helped us was nice and made it less painful and less expensive, but it was still two hours! After that we went to a late lunch and then did very little the rest of the day! I made roasted root crops for supper, yummy!
Sunday, we slept in and finally started the day with a bit more cleaning. Then my mom came over and we started a bunch of cucumbers and winter squash (more to do tonight.) Hubby was laying out what will be our fence lines in another week and doing Internet research (we could not farm without the Internet, I swear!)
Around 3 I decided to be ambitious for supper so I made a roasted tomato sauce and homemade ravioli. Hubby walked into the kitchen, saw the pasta machine out, and a pile of flour on the cutting board and asked, What you doing? "Making ravioli!" He asked if I should not start with something easier, like noodles? I said "I've made ravioli before!" He pointed out (correctly) that not in the 4 years he knew me before we were married, or the 18 months since we have been... It'll be fine, I assured him... And it kind of was...
Kind of...
After the pasta dough sat for the requisite hour, I realized it was WAY to hard... So I tried to add some water to it, which was messy, but worked. Thankfully he was not in the room when I was rolling the dough, because the first couple passes through the machine and I was SURE this would not work... But eventually I ended up with perfect (looking) dough strips.
I had made my filling (mushrooms and cheese) before and let it cool, but remembering my last ravioli making experiment (which I had not mentioned to hubby) I was terrified of my ravioli exploding because they were overfilled, so I went SO FAR the other way, and in the end we had rather tough little squares with very little filling!
Well, I tried...
It was a nice weekend, and their is a lot to do the next couple weeks! First and foremost being the fence, as with the rain, I'm sure our seeds will start to pop... The next couple nights I have another dozen trays of squash to start, and we when it dries a tiny bit (maybe tomorrow) we will run the hand tiller down the center of the rows and plant white clover between our rows, and buckwheat at the edges... We did also come to the realization that we need more field area, so hubby will be turning more ground in the next couple weeks...
Stick with us, it's going to be a great year!
1 comment:
I do remember those leek and carrot ravioli you made years ago -- although they were so big they really looked more like pierogi. They were really tasty, though! (I think the recipe's in my Vegetarian Times cookbook if you ever want to give it a whirl again)
Love, Meg
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