Wednesday, March 7
Marriage Counseling...
Why bother with corporate food when sometimes, it’s so much for fun to do everything yourself? I have this trick to get your marriage working: turn off the television and spend your week-ends drinking wine and make fresh ravioli with your wife.First the pasta dough. Nothing’s easier… take one pack of Semolina, and its equivalent in regular flower. A teaspoon of salt. And three whole eggs.
Mix the semolina, the salt and the flower. Make a whole in the center and crack the three eggs in the center. Mix starting with the eggs in the center. Add a cup of cold water.
Mix to make a big dough. You may have to add water or flower depending of your knowledge on how to make a dough. It may not be too easy the first time around, but with practice, you’ll get it. You don’t want something elastic like a bread or too granular (too much semolina).
When the ball is done, work it for about ten minutes, and then let it rest inside a moist towel.
Then start to flatten it. It make take minutes before you get something thin – about 3 millimeters. A Sicilian technique is to let a half of it hang over the edge of a table (see picture). Rotate it after ten minutes to stretch the other end.
Then place it back nicely on your table. Let it rest 20 minutes, then start to do your ravioli…
Basic ingredients: water salt, eggs, semolina, flower...
Let it rest a bit...
Working out...
Que bella !!!
Never see the end of it... it's alright, I'm listening a three hours long opera...
Super thin and smooth...
The Sicilian trick...
Cutting ravioli and pasta...
Don't fill the ravioli with dish soap, of course. Deosn't taste that great...
Valentine's day ravioli...
Too much dough: make fettuccine....
Ravioli filled with mushrooms and ricotta cheese...
buon appetito !!
Bon appetit !!
Sebastien Parmentier at 12:47 PM
1 Comments
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at September 23, 2007 at 6:59 PM
said... Je ne suis pas mariée mais avec tous ces bons conseils presque vous m'auriez donné faim alors que je sors de table... Maintenant que j'ai eu le cours théorique, je n'ai plus qu'à passer à la pratique. Je teste et je vous tient au courant ;-)
