i am so lazy

wow, i really am incredibly behind on my posts. i was looking through all the pictures that i prepared and NEVER bothered to post, and i cant believe it has been so long. a fact that actually segways quite nicely into the theme for this entry. my laziness.

i once bought some bananas. and i was too lazy to actually eat them before they got very brown. in my defence, i really prefer bananas that are sort of green still, nice and firm, and have that green taste to them. so, once the bananas were no longer green, i didnt really want to eat them anymore, so naturally they then became brown shortly after without my intervention.

you would think, at this point, that i would have trashed the bananas that i was too lazy to eat. but no. i called my mother and got her banana bread recipe and made 2 loaves of banana bread. which is delicious. too lazy to eat the bananas while they were fresh, but not too lazy to make banana bread? that is how my brain works.

and so we come to july. when i made the baby quiches in the previous post, i had some leftover egg yolks. which i didnt want to waste even though work was really busy. so i tried to find some easy recipe on epicurious that would use them up, like a dessert or something. instead, i was intrigued by a recipe for ravioli. because ravioli pasta dough requires a bunch of egg yolks. and so, i went to the trouble of making pasta dough, from scratch (from this recipe), and then rolling it out because i DONT OWN A PASTA ROLLER (thanks mother, for promising that you would get me the kitchenaid attachment for christmas so that i wouldnt buy it for myself, and then NOT ACTUALLY DOING IT). i then cut it up with a biscuit cutter, because also unlike my mother, i dont have a ravioli mold.


i mixed together the cheese mixture from the recipe above, except instead of parmesan, i used gorgonzola (it was what i had on hand. either that or i purchased it intentionally at the store. i dont really remember). and, naturally, i made WAY too much filling. even though it was the amount that the recipe called for, i had like, 2 cups leftover. what does one DO with all of that leftover gorgonzola ricotta mixture? one throws it into a pyrex dish along with a bunch of cherry tomatoes, and bakes it for a bit, for an additional delicious side.


laziness can be good, see. it produces homemade ricotta gorgonzola ravioli.

comfort food

MmmmmmmmmmmmMMMmmMMmmMmmmmm. That's pretty much all i have to say about this dinner. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. so so delicious.

I was trying to figure out what to cook tonight. I wanted something real and filling, but didn't want to put much effort in, as unfortunately i appear to be coming down with a cold of some sort. its that annoying annoying coming down with a cold where you can feel the dryness in your throat and the dryness in your nasal cavity and you KNOW that the sickness is coming even though it isnt really there yet. and you dont want to go to bed because you know you will feel worse in the morning, not better.

anyway, i wanted a simple but delicious meal. and i have some sweet potatoes and potatoes etc leftover from my CSA share that i need to continue to try to use up. and i remembered back to one time in college, when melinda and jamie and i went grocery shopping, and picked up some frozen ravioli and pasta sauce and cheese and threw it into a baking dish when we got home and it was so delicious...and so that was my nice, simple plan for tonight. stopped at the market on the way home and picked up some frozen ravioli, some sauce (i went with a garlic alfredo, for something creamy/cheesy, because i am an unhealthy person), and then some cheese for on top.

once i got home, i threw a gigantic sweet potato in the microwave (yes, it was gigantic. massive. huuuuuge! like, the size of my foot) then cut it up, mixed it together with the frozen ravioli (spinach & cheese!) and the garlic alfredo sauce, then sprinkled cheese on top, threw it in the oven for 30 minutes...and presto! delicious dinner!! so amazingly tasty! and i have leftovers!