Kids!!!!

Started by Homegrown Tomatoes, April 23, 2009, 12:50:06 PM

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Homegrown Tomatoes

When we still lived in WI, we used to hire a teenage girl from church to babysit for us from time to time.  One night while the girls were at her house, her mom made ravioli for the girls, and I've heard all about how wonderful that famous ravioli was ever since then.  After we moved, my oldest kept bugging me to make ravioli and bragging on how delicious Katrina's mom's ravioli was and so forth.  I finally looked up a recipe for ravioli that requires making the pasta and the filling as well as the sauce to go over it, as I've never made it before and am not that huge of a fan of Italian food (just too rich.)  I told DD that we could make some, and again she wished aloud that it would be as delicious as Katrina's mom's ravioli.  We went to the store.  We shopped for ingredients and assembled them.  When we got home I'm unloading groceries and mention to DD that we'll try to make this wonderful homemade ravioli for supper this Friday and I'm talking about the different ingredients that we bought to make it  and how it is made when DD says, "Gee, Mom, Katrina's mom just dumped it out of a can and microwaved it." ::)  Kids!  Oh, well... I'm sure it'll be an educational experience.

MountainDon

Just because something has been done and has not failed, doesn't mean it is good design.


StinkerBell


pagan

Chef Boyardee, yummy.  d*

mtman

I haven't laughed so hard for a long time ;D ;D Guess its true when they say "the devils in the details" :o


Homegrown Tomatoes

Two years I've been hearing about this great ravioli!  Are my kids deprived because they had to go to the babysitter's house to try ravioli from a can.

MountainDon

At least they're not complaining that it's better than your home cooking.
Just because something has been done and has not failed, doesn't mean it is good design.

StinkerBell

Kids do not have mature taste buds, and processed can stuff like that is high in sugar to appeal to kids.
Home made is better and usually much more healthy.

Homegrown Tomatoes

Our kids don't like McDonald's because we didn't take them there early in life, and we didn't eat there.  Well, when we were house hunting, my realtor said something about  having eaten at McDonald's and both the girls grossed out in the back seat, "Ew, Carolyn, how can you eat that stuff? It doesn't even taste like real food!"  The realtor thought it was so cool that they didn't like McD's.  To be honest, I'm glad they've not tasted a lot of processed stuff, but sometimes it makes for embarrassing situations... like the time a friend made them Campbell's tomato soup and a grilled cheese... my oldest, trying to be polite, said, "Oh, Christine, thanks for bringing us this soup.  It tastes just like sugary ketchup."  I read somewhere (Fast Food Nation, maybe?) that a lot more little kids could identify Ronald McDonald than could identify the president of the US, so I tested the girls the other night (they're 4 and 6.)  I asked them who Ronald McDonald was and my little one said, "I don't know... someone you went to school with?"  My oldest said, "Um, I think he is a news anchor, isn't he?"  So then I asked them who is president right now, and they both knew.   My oldest starts in with ,"Well, Barack Obama won the election but I'm wondering about those people who voted for him.  Do they know that he is taking their money to kill babies in other countries?  I would have voted for McCain if I could vote because he seems like a nice old man, and besides, I think he has arthur-itis too bad to kill babies.  Before Obama, there were some Bushes, and somewhere back there there was that guy named Abraham Lincoln who is on the pennies...."  At that point I had to say goodnight and walk out of the room so that she wouldn't catch me laughing.  My oldest was sure to tell her daddy the next day, "Dad, did you know who Ronald McDonald is?  He is some clown who got the idea for McDonald's." ::)



Homegrown Tomatoes

Well, the ravioli seems to have been a success... the kids ate well.  Recipe made a bunch, but it was only supposed to serve four.... I'm thinking it would have served four 300-lb men.  It served all five of us, and there was enough left over to pack a lunch for DH and still have enough left over for lunch tomorrow.  Only problem was it was very time consuming to make the pasta, make the filling, make the marinara sauce, etc.

StinkerBell

It freezes very well. Next time double the batch and stick 75% of it in the freezer.

Homegrown Tomatoes

I was thinking the same thing... only maybe even triple the recipe.  Should you freeze it without the marinara?  Or with?  Funny thing, for whatever reason, it tasted exactly like Korean mandu, only with marinara sauce.  If I steamed it or fried it and left off the sauce, we could've called it mandu and no one would be the wiser, lol.

MountainDon

Freeze the ravioli without the sauce I would think. I base that on the readily available variety of frozen ravioli in grocery stores. They're just frozen ravioli without sauce. If you can freeze them individually on cookie sheets then you can pull as many as you need at a time. That will also let you cook them by dropping the frozen ravioli into boiling water. At least that's the recommendation of the frozen ones we buy.
Just because something has been done and has not failed, doesn't mean it is good design.

Homegrown Tomatoes

That's kind of what I was thinking.  Mandu is sold the same way, and you can either steam or fry it.


StinkerBell

I agree once again with MD (still waiting on my cash, MD).

Now if you also want to be making up quarts of sauce at the same time, then freeze that separately.