28 October 2011 - Keely's Showgirls Delight Lemonade Scones and Vegetarian Ravioli.
After a busy week back at work I was
hanging out for my long weekend with Carly and the chance to do my October
review. She had just finished her exams so was officially on holidays so I
decided to pretend I was on holidays too - not always the smartest decision, but always a fun one. I decided to make her a feast,
consisting of Showgirls Delight Lemonade Scones
and Vegetarian Ravioli.
I prepared the pasta the night before as
this recipe has the pasta resting in the fridge for a few hours. My first batch
was quite disastrous. I could not get the texture right and had no idea why.
I’ve made pasta before and it was fine, but this one just was ridiculously dry and not working. I
remembered last time that when one effed up Sian added an extra yolk to the
mixture and that worked, but this didn’t work for me. It made it a gross mess
and it got chucked out. I started again and it was again really dry, but this
time I added more oil and it seemed to be at least passable. I chucked it in
the fridge ready to do the next day.
I also was pre-preparing my scones. Carly
is like a nanna in the way she loves scones, so I decided to give them a red
hot go. I’d left my book in Kiama, so had to find another recipe that
unfortunately didn’t have Keely’s helpful tips – but it seems the same
otherwise.
I
followed the recipe exactly (well as exactly as I do) and it was OK. I think in
my ‘exact measurements’ I put in too much lemonade so the mixture was really
runny so I was chucking in extra flour like there was no tomorrow. It stayed a
really sticky mess, so in the end I just rolled them up and chucked them in the
oven. I didn’t have the skills, tools or inclination to try and make them in the
right shape, so they just went in and a glumpy mess and that was it. Now I read
Keely’s recipe I think I could do it better if I had her directions with me.
I baked them for about 20 minutes all up
but I checked them constantly as I had no idea what they were meant to be like.
They also were all different sizes so I wanted to make sure the bigger ones had
enough time to cook. Eventually they looked fine and I just took them out and
hoped that they were cooked.
Carly arrived the next afternoon and, after
whipping the cream into a frenzy, we sat down for some delicious scones. They
were cooked on the inside and were pretty yum! We faffed around for a bit
before it was time to get moving on dinner.
The filling of the Ravioli was really
simple, smelt delicious and was no trouble at all. The pasta however, was not
so easy. We rolled it out which was fine and fun as always while we talked
endlessly about nonsense and somehow managed to cover the apartment in flour.
It was when we got to assembling the ravioli that we ran into some problems. We
had no idea what they were meant to look like! What shape they were, how big
they were – nothing. It was a really long tedious process, but we kind of
assembled them in to some weird shapes in a range of sizes and got on with the
cooking.
Some of them were disastrous, particularly
the bigger ones that didn’t cook because the pasta was too thick around the
sides. We had enough that looked OK though so we sat down to feast on them. It
was really nice! We both loved the taste sick, but when it came to the
presentation and the assembling of the ravioli, this message Sian had left us earlier
definitely rang true.
Overall, it was really yum. Next time I’ll
make the same filling but not blend it up, then I’ll just make the pasta into
fettuccini or something and eat it like that. Ravioli is way too much effort. I
think Carly was sufficiently impressed (apart from thinking I’m slightly
retarded) – but I guess we’ll see when the review is in!
Tips: Find out how to make ravioli – at least what shape it is.
Music: Shuffle of all music on my iPod.
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