July 2011
32 posts
Thinking with the little head: Abstinence
If people had an orgasm every time they ran a red light, it would be really difficult to get them to stop. Sexual abstinence as a means of birth control seems to have little incentive other than a reinforcement of the conscience, which I believe is easily overruled by human/animal needs. So let’s teach stronger strategies for birth control, rather than trying to get everyone to stop at an...
Want to play Indiana Jones* while you... →
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muralgirl:
This website gives you untranslated chunks of ancient Greek papyri texts from Oxyrhynchus Egypt to transcribe. There are a series of characters for you to match up with what you see on the fragments. It’s kind of a fun puzzle, and it helps speed along the transcription of these documents so that they can be deciphered.
Some of them are much harder to read than...
Live Blog: Ravioli Lasagna
Dinner was consumed. Turned out good, though different than the ideal in my mind before setting out on this path. There were lessons learned. Most of all, I’m just happy to have a full belly, an open bottle of red wine and my woman by my side.
I’ll post the whole story and pictures on a friend’s food blog. Thanks for joining me on the journey.
Ciao, -Nico
Live Blog: Ravioli Lasagna
Wine is breathing and lasagna is finishing up in the oven.
Would’ve gladly had people over to share (that means you crabby-cakes) but I thought the city would be in ruins all around us because of the carpocalypse. Another pasta night and there will be guests.
So freaking hungry.
Live Blog: Ravioli Lasagna
It’s in the oven. I’m starving.
Live Blog: Ravioli Lasagna
Ravioli is shaped and needs a quick blanch before assembly. Dinner will be served promptly at 10:30pm (or so).
Made so much ravioli filling I think I’ll do a calzone for dinner tomorrow night.
Live Blog: Ravioli Lasagna
Pasta has been rolled out. I think it was the semolina, but this was the easiest time I’ve had with fresh pasta. No tears and not too much screaming.
The pasta rests, I rest and then the ravioli created and the lasagna is assembled.
Live Blog: Ravioli Lasagna
Sauce is ready. Ravioli filling is ready. Young cat attacked the cloth under which the pasta ball was resting. If he had damaged the nascent pasta, we would’ve seen how thinly he could be rolled through the machine.
Time to crank up the machinery and squeeze this pasta.
Live Blog: Ravioli Lasagna
Sauce rests, awaiting the impossibly small meatballs I rolled. They need browning, then swim with the tomatoes. Chard is wilted and ready to be mixed with the ricotta and asiago for the ravioli filling.
Once the sauce is together, I roll the pasta.
Live Blog: Ravioli Lasagna
Sauce continues to simmer, the smell of caramelized tomatoes filling the apartment. Pasta dough was mixed (50% AP flour, 50% semolina) and kneaded for 10 minutes (my exercise for the day). Now it rests.
Next the ravioli filling (ricotta and chard).
Live Blog: Ravioli Lasagna
Styx on the headphones, chopped the Mirepoix, sweated it out in the pot and added the strained tomatoes. That simmers for an hour, giving me time to make the pasta and filling. Then meatballs.
Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto.
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