Ravioli!!

Sam and I made our first serious foray into cooking in our new(ish) host-family's kitchen today. We recently received a package from my mom containing, among other things, some dried sage she picked from my community garden plot back in Providence. This was really exciting for me- I didn't really get to garden last summer (I was too busy with the Tiny House to do any thing else), and so the garden plot was a little bit on autopilot. It was really, really cool to think about cooking with something I had grown again.

We decided to make the best sage dish known to man: butternut squash ravioli with a brown butter sage sauce. The problem with this was that we had no butternut squash ravioli- so we started at the beginning with some eggs and flour:

I was in charge of the dough, while Sam was in charge of the filling. While I kneaded the eggs and flour together, Sam started working his magic with spices and a strange-looking winter squash/ pumpkin thing that was the closest we could get to a butternut squash. 

Although time consuming, the process wasn't actually all that difficult. The only tricky part was, once the dough was rolled and the filling had been spooned out onto it in little blobs, we had to seal a second layer of dough over the filling. There is a small handtool that will cut and seal the ravioli for you, but we didn't have one of those, so we just made due with a knife and our fingers. 

As I finished up that process, Sam cooked up the sage sauce, and after a few minutes in boiling water, the ravioli were finished. It was really nice to sit down to a meal that truly a taste of home.