I made house dinner again Sunday night, this time for just three of us. Since there was such a small group, I decided to put a little more effort into things and made homemade ravioli, bruschetta, and a salad. Unfortunately, things didn’t exactly go as planned.
The ravioli were tasty – I used prepared wonton wrappers from the grocery store, and filled them with a mixture of lowfat ricotta, parmesan, mozzarella, spinach, garlic, basil, salt and pepper. For a sauce (super healthy), I heated up some store bought pesto with cream, nonfat milk, and garlic. The ravioli were very delicate, however, and while I was careful during the cooking process taking each one in and out of the boiling water with a slotted spoon, the darned things stuck together as soon as I put them in the colander to strain. Which meant my roommates had to rip them all apart to get a chunk of “ravioli” on their plates. Boo.
The bruschetta were good, because really, how hard is it to make bruschetta?
The salad, on the other hand…..well, it started out good. I made the same salad as last week, with kiwi, avocado, and raw pumpkin seeds. However, this time we were all out of greens from our veggie box so I went out to the garden and harvested some lettuce our green thumb roommate has been growing. I washed it (twice!), salad spun it, and ripped it up into manageable pieces. We’d eaten almost all of it when one roommate asked if she could finish it off. Of course, we said yes. On her last bite, she screamed bloody murder and leapt up from the table, shouting, “What is that? What is THAT?”
“That” was a hungry little snail. Chilling in the last bite of salad. So gross.
