I was walking out of brunch at the Blarney Stone, I personally wanted to stay home and make pancakes but my roommate insisted on going out. I had the standard veggie omelet and an Irish Coffee. The store next door had young garlic, and I immediately got excited and bought 6 of them remembering a recipe with young garlic and potatoes in a ravioli; which is perfect since I've wanted ravioli's in broth all week. Unfortunately, I only bought enough for half a recipe, which turned out to be about 12 large-ish raviolis.
I went out looking for new potatoes, the yellow fingerlings or the french pink potatoes looked like good choices but I didn't want a whole bag. Organic gold potatoes were on sale so I chose those.
I felt like a salad, so I thought some roasted beets tossed in some mesclun with some chopped apples in a vinaigrette would be fine. And that's what I did.
The ravioli's were easy, I put about a 1/4 cup of whole wheat (3/4 all-purpose) into a 1 egg pasta recipe. Chopped and stewed the young garlic, Alice tells you which parts of the garlic to take to adjust your flavor accordingly... I really don't have that fine of a palate. I guessed. Chop them uniformly and cook until done in some butter. Boil the potatoes. Then puree them together adding salt and pepper to taste. Roll out the pasta, fill, cut, and drop in boiling water.
Chocolate cake was a last minute add, and also a moderate disaster. I didn't have any of the right ingredients. I had only 2 eggs instead of 3, so I chucked out 1/3 of the dry mix I had made. I didn't have unsweetened chocolate, just semi. And I didn't have buttermilk, just some left over cream that I forgot to add,(then added last minute directly into the cake pan)... while waiting for the cake to cool, I got impatient and made some frosting. Well the cake still wasn't that cool when I started to frost it... melt-age. If there was a way to fuck up this cake, I did it. I got a theory with working with this much freaking butter and sugar though, it's almost impossible for it to suck, so don't trip on it.
More roommates just happen to show up when I finished so I had to ration things out a bit more scarcely. I did not make my own broth, I got lazy and used a carton of no-chicken broth. Wish I had just made my own, would've been better and cheaper. I think it was all decent in the end.
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