Archive for January, 2011
Today, borages…
Does it happen you too to see something and associate it to food? Well, in Coppi Rossi land it happens quite often.
As an example, today I was looking at our borages (Borago officinalis) and I suddenly felt like doing some ravioli. That’s the way we do them:
We take 8 hg (1lb 11oz) borages (buràxi in our dialect), 4 hg flour, 3 eggs, parmigiano finely grated (a lot of), 4 spoon oil (olive oil, obviously), water (a bit), salt and pepper.
We begin boiling borages some minutes, then putting them on a canvas to dry, with a weight on top. The day after I prepare the pasta dough mixing water, flour and one egg.
I knead some minutes, then split the dough and roll out using the 
rolling pin, so to obtain two thin sheets.
Then I chop the borages and gather them in a soup plate, as I have to add two eggs, a generous handful of grated parmigiano, salt, oil, pepper and nutmeg. I mix the stuffing until it’s compact enough.PLEASE, ATTENTION! Who’s got husbands and/or kids not fully appreciating the value of a low sodium diet, TASTE THE STUFFINGand estimate if it’s salty enough. Yeah, that’s what I forget every time.
Now I pick up a pasta sheet, put the stuffing on it a tea spoon at a time, spacing them 1 cm (less than half an inch). Then I cover with the second pasta sheet, modeling ravioli using my fingers. Finally, I cut them. I let them rest for a couple of hours, then I cook them and mix with a meat sauce and grated parmigiano.
New Year, New Life?
So, 2011 has already started. Don’t know you, but we’re putting a lot of expectations in this year.
I’m looking forward to welcome guests, to know new people, to learn new things and customs.
We know there’s such a hard work ahead of us and we expect some hiddent traps. But, for the moment, we don’t care!
Just to learn something new, sunday we had a trip to Genoa; it’s a 90 minutes long journey; when you travel with friends time flies. Our target was the exhibition “Mediterraneo” at Palazzo Ducale.
And being already there, could we miss “L’Africa delle Meraviglie”? No opportunity missed!
We would like to visit the Cathedral of St. Lawrence, with its majestic gothic portals, but unfortunately we were out of time; I hope you’ll be pleased with a picture from the exterior!
To be honest, kids appreciated the McDonald’s visit!
