No, this is not a volcano you made when you were six that erupted and spued white foamy stuff down the side – quite the contrary.  This is the start of home made ravioli, or at least the attempt there of.  I have an obscenely large amount (thank you, Costco) of ricotta cheese in my frig that needs to be used; I can’t even remember why I purchased it, perhaps lasagna.  What else is made with ricotta cheese, ravioli of course!  It is actually fate that I make ravioli because the same day I thought about making the ravioli, there was a recipe for homemade pasta dough in Tastebuds. Fate, I tell you.  I even did additional research since I have never made my own pasta – I glanced at other recipes and watched a couple tutorials on youtube.  I followed the directions to a “t” and instead of soft and creamy dough, I ended up with a hard yellow lump – yellow from me adding too many eggs to soften the hard lump.  Dishearten I pulled out the dinner back up – eggs and rosti.  At about 9pm I was still festering over the fact that I had wasted four eggs and I decided to boil a piece of my hard lump, just to see.  Surprising it tasted like pasta, a little eggy, but let’s pretend I was making egg-noodles.  So tonight I am going back and going to attempt this again, because I am smart and homemade ravioli cannot be my demise.

Happy weekend all!