Today Clarissa was still sick and Lydia and Mary started to feel sick as well so something is definitely going through our home.
From my side, the most eventful thing was I had a team activity at 2:00. It was a virtual Airbnb experience for which an Italian chef living in Florence taught us all how to make home-made gnocchi, ravioli and pesto.
I had so much fun! I was blown away at how simple it is to make home-made pasta. It is literally an egg and 2/3-3/4 cup flour (depending on the size of the egg) for the pasta, and gnocchi is just boiled potato shredded and mashed mixed with flower. That’s it! The filling for the ravioli was ricotta cheese with lemon-zest, salt, pepper, nutmeg and I think thyme. The pesto was simply olive oil, basil leaves, pine-nuts, and some other stuff I’m now forgetting (salt and pepper?) to the consistency of honey. It all turned out so good!
It also gave me a way increased respect for all the cooking Lily does in our home. I had to get her help just to figure out how to assemble the food processor, and when I was done, there was a giant mess everywhere that took about an hour to clean. Lily, thank you for all of the incredible meals you bless us with. This was such a good reminder of the amount of work that goes into all of that!
Lily learned a lot about her dad today from talking with his first wife, Shirley and it was a lot for her to process. Lily called her mom to talk through it with her, and in the process, we invited her to join us for our home-made pasta dinner. It was so fun to see her! We also had fish and an incredible beat, lentil, and feta salad that Lily made and some mind-blowing cowboy cookies. The whole meal was incredible and I ate myself silly. It’s now past 9:00 the next day and I’m still not hungry.
