Yesterday Manda and I spent the day cleaning. I think we need to make it a once a week process so we don’t get so behind. lol But anyway, on top of cleaning the Nationwide race was on and my beloved Auburn Tigers were playing. Manda loves when they play. ;P lol Anyway, we got to talking about what sounded good for supper and we needed to get a few things from the grocery store. I told her wait until half time of the Auburn/South Carolina game. Yes, yes, I would be the “guy” in our friendship right then. We had watched an episode of Giada at Home on Food Network one day and she made ravioli in this brown butter sauce. We said that that sounded good, but without the brown butter. We also said that fried ravioli like Olive Garden’s would be great, too, which we have made before. We decided to just make ravioli and Manda made her marinara sauce. Ravioli is simple to make, well, if you buy the frozen kind because homemade pasta in general is a long drawn out process and the frozen taste just the same to me. It cooks about 3 to 4 minutes in boiling water. Manda\’s Marinara recipe in case you want to make it from scratch and create it how you would like it. We added fresh mushrooms and spinach to ours and let it cook for a little bit. After the ravioli was done cooking, we just mixed it with the sauce. Also with the ravioli for supper we decided to have a salad with it. We found a recipe for ranch dressing that Guy Fieri made on one of his Guy’s Big Bite episodes on Food Network. Here’s the link if you want to see it and try it out: Homemade Ranch Dressing If you can perfect it, it’s a cheap way to make ranch dressing. Could be a money saver tip if you use it quite a bit. Wasn’t just like ranch, but it was good all the same. We didn’t have any buttermilk, but we made our own. How you ask? Well, for every cup of buttermilk that you need, you add a tablespoon of vinegar to a cup of milk and you let it sit for 5 minutes. Thanks to Jamie Deen we learned that little tid bit. Hope you are enjoying reading the blog, we’re having fun with it and hope you enjoy the recipes!! 🙂
– Morgan
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