I am in LOVE!...with Basil.
A few weeks ago I purchased a sweet basil plant, when Walmart first put out their spring gardening displays. I know I probably didn’t get the best price on it because it was a brand new display, but I was excited to grasp onto spring. I’ve wanted to use basil for a while, but never had any reason to. With my aversion to sorting through my hoard of recipes I didn’t have any current recipes that use basil.
So, it’s just been sitting there…waiting…waiting for Mother Nature to say “come and play outside”. All the while, it’s been staring intently at me, taunting me with its existence.
Yesterday I picked off a leaf, and smelled it.
OH. MY. GOODNESS! I LOVEd it!
I couldn’t stop smelling it…until the dog ran up to me and snatched it out of my hand (weird-o dog).
I had already planned to experiment with some sort of ravioli for dinner, so once I smelled the basil I knew immediately it HAD to be in the ravioli.
And so it went, evolving from there.
Simple. Sweet. Satisfying.
This may or may not be an original recipe, but it was at least straight out of my head, without any written words to follow along. I used the leftover chicken from the sweet and sour chicken, and then cooked a few more chicken breasts on the stove, in olive oil.
This was my first attempt at raviolis, and they were horribly ugly…but in a cute, delicious sort of way. I made a bit of a mess at first, until I started to get the hang of it. I had to throw out the first few…my dough was too sticky and they sealed themselves to the counter. And I also tried to cook them all in the same pot, which was about twice as many as I should have cooked at one time.
Oh well, in the end, life is good.
AND! Everyone LOVED it! …weirdness continues to enjoy my life…
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Homemade Pasta (basic recipe)
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