oh my gosh a cooking post! (because the winter will just not end)

Yes
A return to the roots of this blog. A post about cooking! and family! and homemade! I havent used the "food" label in months!
We got [yet another] snowstorm 2 weekends ago, so to avoid watching [yet another] Disney movie ("Mama, Gaston is bad because he hurts Beast!") I decided to engage Mathilda in a big kitchen project- making ravioli from scratch!
(full disclosure: I was planning to make a walnut wine sauce to go over store-bought ravioli but forgot to tell my husband what kind to get at the store...so this wasn't really a planned home-ec event, but more of a, "if we dont make ravioli we're just calling out for thai food again" project)

First, and most important- Mathilda can now pronounce ravioli, after a day of calling it rab-lioli.

Ok, back to the task.

I made a really easy (and not very tasty) walnut, butter, white wine, rosemary sauce (I know- what could go wrong? But it just wasnt good- the texture especially was blech. So we basically just poured the browned butter and wine over our pasta. Perfecto!).

Then used our Haitian mushrooms (from the Never Ending Jar) to make a ricotta-mushroom filling (which was SO DELICIOUS and from the ol' standard Joy of Cooking).

Then we made the pasta. For this event I got to break out my grandmother's pasta maker. I had never used it and found a wonderful surprise when I opened the box. She had her hand-written pierogi (or pyrohi as she spelled it) recipe in the lid- complete with what setting to use on the pasta maker for the dough! Treasure!

whole wheat pasta in the initial stages.

teaching my aproned assistant how to turn the crank

adding more flour was her favorite part

stuffed, in a line, ready to be cut apart

about to be boiled

I confess it took me about 2 weeks to finish this post because it turns out winter IS ending! We've had higher temps so we've been able to do more, and all with a spring in our step. Also, I went to NYC last weekend- will post on that later! So much love!