Hey, I’m just here minding my own business, practicing my rabbit kicks, and I smell something really good being mixed up in the kitchen.
Uh, oh, mama’s making ravioli and I guess this was an unplanned Art Shot with her fingers reflected in the pasta maker, haha. She gave me a tiny piece of dough but it’s not my gig.
Now when she puts a little of that ricotta filling in my bowl, that’ll be something else! Ricotta, nutmeg, an egg yolk, and cooked spinach (which is in some of my kitty food sometimes, along with carrots and string beans, whatever they are).
Well, here they are, folks, ready for the pasta pot and when they’re done, about 5 minutes in simmering water, they go into bowls with toasted sage and melted butter. What’s not to like? I got to lick the pan.
VOILA’!
This has been exhausting. I’m going back to my snooze, and in honor of the ravioli, CIAO, TUTTI!
Your momma needs to write a cookbook. I know I have learned a lot about simple and easy to make delicious foods from your blog!
Mama sent you an email with her books on it. She is working on a third, and thank you so much for your kind words. Let her know if you try any recipes because she loves feedback.
The mom wants to know what time she should be over for dinner. 😉
Hey, just come spend the day and help with prep!!! Then we’ll toast the KITTIES in the family and eat together.
CIAO Loulou – I know that last shot was really a hello to me!!! And mama is drooling over that ravioli – she keeps shreiking OMG, it looks delicious. But, hey, Loulou – what IS the big deal with ANY food that doesn’t include (lots of) meat or fish or kibbles!!?? She gave you DOUGH!? HORREUR!!!! You’ve got the CIAO down pat – next time you get dough, you need to practice your “bras d’honneur”. I’m working on mine, since yesterday “they” forgot to bring my kibbles to the gallery and I had to eat melon and bread. See how bad it’s getting around here?
YOU EAT MELON??? Oh, I’m sure mama wishes I would eat things like that…and bread? Lucky devil-eur, you. OH, and tomatoes…Mya, you are one gourmet doggy.
Yummy! Love your homemade ravioli!
They were pretty good. As I said, I only got to lick the butter pan.
They look so good 🙂
Thank you. They were pretty tasty, they tell me.
Oh how delicious they look!! I DO have a question, how does your Mama stay so thin with all of that delicious food that she makes!? xoxo
Mama says that she inherited her mama’s metabolism, but mostly I have observed that she simply does’t overeat. She eats what she wants and then stops. And no one snacks around here because we all cherish our appetites for lunch and dinner!
Good philosophy that is. Learn when to stop eating before you are full. There’s always the next meal to cherish when you know how to cook. And nothing feels so ugghhly as being too full.
Boy, do we all agree with that. Appetite is the best entrée!
No tomato sauce? Jan loves tomatoes and never had ravioli without it. She thinks your mom is a gourmet cook.
This is a specialty of Italy, ravioi burro salvia…ravioli with toasted sage in butter. Try it one time and you’ll be a fan. Yes, mama uses tomato sauce too, the classic ravioli dish. And well, mama’s cooked since 5 years old and LOVES to cook so she tries lots of things.
Mercy, Loulou, I have never seen such lovely ravioli – and no tomato sauce in sight !
Melted butter and fresh sage leaves toasted in the butter. You don’t use alot, it’s about a teaspoon per plate, mama says, but oh, so good. I like tomato sauce, too, but this dish is very famous in Italy, everywhere.
Oh my, can I come eat at your house?! I would luv me some of your momma’s cook’in! You are one lucky kitty! You and I would be good together, Loulou luv ’cause we both appurr-ciate lots of down time. Life is too short to be running crazy through it, right?! Purrs.