Monday, November 21, 2011

His and hers...

How many out there prefer things that their significant other’s do not or vice versa?
And how many besides me know from experience that ‘separate but equal’, works so much better than arguing?
Aha! I do believe it is called a form of compromise, hmm?
Some people who fall in love believe that when you do you become one, but sadly or happily it does not mean you all of a sudden have just one brain to share that comes much later… in your senior years when you finish each others sentences and thoughts and with luck get them correct when you speak them aloud, ha!

Now listen little chillin and you will hear of another spinning of how it works at this time of year…
ALA C-O-M-P-R-O-M-I-S-E!
Yep, you hear me; don’t you?
I said COMPROMISE, and yea I am sure to say that not only does it work when the temperatures fluctuate, well, here not so much, but maybe where you are, any-who; it WORKS ALL YEAR LONG and with others that may not be your loving ones too!

More than likely you are wondering why I chose this topic for tonight and as sure as the day is short, yep our government is responsible for that too, I better be moving on…
So here I go…
Tonight we tried the recipe in the 75th anniversary edition of our cookbook, from Better Homes and Gardens that we replaced after, ‘Charley’ i.e. the hurricane, destroyed our others with mold and they had to be tossed… we only have two now, this indoor one and an outdoor barbecue cooking one too, but all other recipes I get off of the net if I so choose to. Here’s the recipe for all to share: Basic for all pastas:
On page 377 BHG cookbook, and this is my first gift to you of the season…
2 1/3 cups of flour, the third is reserved for rolling out the dough
1 tsp of dried basil, marjoram or sage crushed (optional)
½ teaspoon of salt
2 beaten eggs
1/3 of a cup of water
1 teaspoon of cooking oil or olive oil
In food processor place your metal blade in the bowl then all the dry ingredients plus the eggs, and cover and process until mixture forms fine crumbs (about the consistency of cornmeal) pour the oil and water through the feed tube. Continue processing until the dough forms a ball. Cover and let rest for about ten minutes then continue on to rolling it out to form whatever type of shapes you wish, cooking time varies with size and type of pasta; when dropped into boiling water.
Bowties 2 to 3 min.
Fettuccine 1 ½ to 2 min.
Lasagna 2 to 3 min.
Linguine 1 ½ to 2 min.
Noodles 1 ½ to 2 min.
Ravioli 7 to 9 min.
Tortellini 7 to 9 min.
If dried or frozen pasta, allow a minute or two more.
And remember all pasta should be rolled out to no more than 1/16th of inch thickness.
My little note *Left over turkey and ham make great fillings too! Just a thought…

And sometimes, just on occasion I create my own unique recipes that often do work, but at times they do not… let’s face it friends the joy is in experimentation, hmm?
(Get your mind out of the gutter, but if over twenty-one go where you please!)

And so tonight we decided to make raviolis but Hubby wanted plain cheese which was made with ricotta and parmesan, and I wanted shrimp that we had gotten a good supply of the frozen large ones from our last Sam’s Club visit, all shelled cleaned and deveined and so I grabbed ten defrosted and cooked them put them in the food processor with some spinach, ricotta and parmesan, lemon juice splashed and garlic powder, and spun!
This was after the pasta was made and Hubby’s were all set with their cheese fillings, we had ten each of our favs, but only ate half of them due to them being so filling!
He had a tomato sauce that I jazzed up with more basil, oregano and garlic.
Mine was a buttery (actually margarine light) with lemon, chicken no salt bullion, garlic, black cracked pepper, a healthy pinch of old bay seasoning and left over filling that I apparently overshot the quantity of, but actually made a great sauce!
All in all we were happily stuffed, not that that’s a good thing, but not that bad either, hmm, mmm, mmm oh so good!
On that bit of trickery, let’s face it anything not similar to this Thursday’s dinning choices is a welcome idea for meals now, hmm?

Now allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

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