Monday, January 2, 2012

a pretty dish - thanks to my mom!

I am talking about the actual dish, not the food, lol. This beautiful leaf plate was bought by my mom who gave it to me as a gift when I wasn't feeling so well. She brought it over one day with some beautiful long stemmed strawberries and peonies and hydrangeas ( my fave flowers) and I was so touched by her thoughtfulness. this dish is so pretty, I use it to keep my lemons and tomatoes or whatever I have ripening on my counter. One day I decided to use it as a serving piece and I think its doin a great job at that!
The dish on the dish is stacked eggplant with ratatouille ( fried onions, peppers, tomatoes, some ppl put other stuff but I kept it simple)  and on the side is tilapia baked with a mayo lemon sauce and my go-to crusted pistachio topping.. Thanks again ma!!!

Homemade wild mushroom ravioli

Nowadays, it is so very easy to make things at home and call it home made. With the ease of new products, like egg roll wrappers, ravioli wrappers, and the like, we can really experiment! Basically, what I actually made in this photo, is the filling and the sauce.
I fried onions and garlic, and chopped up all kinds of mushrooms and added that. I then added some ricotta cheese as a binder and filled the ravioli circles and folded them and made indentations with a fork at the edges.
I do not remember what I put into the sauce, but its probably crushed tomatoes from a can, some red wine, spices, basil, salt, pepper and some sugar.

most of these pictures that I have posted on my blog are pictures from an old cell phone I used to have, days before my android and blackberry! so I don't remember all the recipes but hope the pics still give u somethin to look at, lol!