Tonight I had about 10 friends overs for Italian dinner! In honor of our trip to Italy, and also just because I wanted to try the ravioli that are sold in the Naschmarkt and at about 2 Euro a pop, these handmade giant ravioli were the best investment I've ever made. I bought some spinach-ricotta cheese filled ravioli and made a butter sage sauce to go overtop, the idea I got from a restaurant we went to last week. I also whipped up a quick pesto, using my mortar and pestle, when I realized more people were coming than I thought. Anna also prepared this really yummy tuna sauce, for which I need to get the recipe.
I made some easy sage wrapped pears for an appetizer, which is really simple, but tasty and they look fancy!
Ingredients
1 ripe medium sized pears
8 large leaves of fresh sage
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 200ºC. Core and slice the pear into 8ths. Wrap on leaf around each individual slice. Butter a baking sheet and place the wraps onto the sheet.
2. Bake until the leaves are crisp and the pears are golden brown. About 10 minutes. Remove and transfer to a platter. Let cool and serve.
Post-meal, we hung out for a while, drinking the better than bad wine that Abe brought and enjoying just being able to see each other, which surprisingly doesn't happen very often. At the end of the meal, we decided that this needs to become a weekly thing! Can't wait for Mexican Dinner next week!
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