Pumpkin Ravioli with Brown Butter and Sage Sauce on November 1
I wrote about me making the pumpkin ravioli and Bruce & I testing them with the unorthodox application of Bolognese sauce in the post on the 28th. We had our neighbors, Chris & John, come over for dinner on this day and I served the ravioli with the traditional sauce of brown butter and toasted sage. Before the meal, we enjoyed appetizers of prosciutto wrapped fresh figs served with aceto balsamico extra vecchio from Modena, and River’s Edge Chevre with hazelnuts and Frangelico. We also enjoyed Baba Ghanouj with pine nuts and parsley.
Bruce made a chopped Caesar salad and we served it with the ravioli to cut some of the richness of the butter sauce. I made a honey pine nut tart for dessert (this was the first time I ever made pastry dough) and it is the only picture I have for the entire meal…..we stayed true to form and forgot to take pictures again. We enjoyed white wine to start and finished with a nice bottle of (Cuneo) Tre Nova Secopassa 2004.
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My husband, Bruce, and I live on the beautiful Oregon Coast. We are passionate home cooks and make dinner from scratch almost every night of the week. We shop the farmer’s market, buy as much from local producers as we can, and support the organic, sustainable, and Slow Food movements. We believe that knowing where your food comes from, cooking from scratch, eating well, in season, and together at the table are all part of living healthy. You won’t find many foods from the middles aisles of the grocery store in our house!! This blog is an account of our home-cooked meals for the year 2008 (and now 2009). The way it works is I prepare the main entree’ (I usually don’t follow a recipe–I like to think of recipes as reference and use them to generate ideas) while Bruce usually makes a salad to match. We eat the salad after we eat the main entree’. We learned to eat that way when we visited Italy and prefer it now. We always have a bottle of wine with dinner, so we’ve documented it as well. We don’t go by what’s best with white or red, we just drink what we like. This project started in December 2007 when there were many discussions regarding the frequency in which favorite dishes were made. We determined that the best way to know how often we ate pasta with Bolognese sauce (or anything else) was to document it. We have been doing just that in a journal since January 1, 2008. I then decided that it would be better to put it on a blog; not for public attention, but for easier storage management and transferability of the data. If you happen to stumble across this blog and find it interesting, or would like to know how we made something, let me know–I am happy to share.
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