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This is not my kitchen. obviously. I went to visit family for Thanksgiving and had the luxury of cooking a dish for my aunt and uncle. With a full feast already on the menu (including Al’s amazing looking grilled turkey and and Em’s excellent greenbean casserole {alliteration – sorry}) , what’s a girl to do? why, make stuff up and pretend to know what she’s doing! So I decided on doing a savory pumpkin ravioli. believe it or not, it was excellent and I now have the problem of trying to make it again sometime. I can’t really give a recipe (because there wasn’t one) but the ingredients included purreed pumpkin, ricotta cheese, orange zest, and minced onion in wonton skins, with balsamic, olive oil, and orange segments on top.
*hugs* thanks for letting me use your kitchen!
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Passover has come and gone and once again I find myself with leftover matzah. And no, not just a few sheets that I can find a way to ingest, but an entire box. It seems like this happens every year. So this time I decided to try something new. Chocolate covered matzah!
When I first told D that I wanted to try and make this he asked “Why do you want to make something that tastes like chocolate cardboard?” His faith in my cooking abilities really gets me choked up sometimes. My friend Jana makes this every year, and hers is delicious, so I knew mine would be edible at the least. I never did get her recipe, so I used this one from David Lebovitz. Yum! It turned out so good that D changed his tune and declared that they tasted like chocolate pretzels and I should make them again! Go figure.
Happy Pesach! Yeah, I know, just thinking of the two words “bento” and “pesach” don’t seem to go together, but they work surprisingly well. In the bottom tier I have some haroseth, half an orange (D got the other half) and some dried fruit. In the top tier is matzot and hummus with tomato.
Now, I don’t usually use a recipe for hummus (gasp! horror!), but if you’re looking for one, The Hummus Blog is wonderful and exhaustive. Next time I make hummus, I’m going to try one of the recipies from there!
