Rustic Ravioli

This weekend was pretty awesome. I used a little of my sick time I am otherwise going to lose Friday and it was also John's Friday off from the 9-80s he's working. We used that day to finish Christmas shopping for each other and cleaned the house a bit. We had my work party Friday night, good times telling stories till late. Party attendance also didn't disappoint since it was the usual suspects, all of the Operations team shows up, only two of the Systems and Analysis team shows up. Most people, don't realize there is a great divide in personalities of engineers between who is fun and who isn't as my soon-to-be-ex team most definitely exemplifies.

The rest of the weekend was spent doing not much of anything which was enjoyable. Watched movies and football, played video games, etc. But Saturday night I made my second attempt at homemade ravioli. It tasted way good with a spinach-ricotta filling and came out great, better than last time. I also whipped up a homemade tomato basil sauce for it, so it was yummy all around. Visual appeal, however, was still lacking and it still has to be categorized as "rustic" or perhaps more like "primitive". I am still trying to figure out how people can hand make ravioli that resembles something other than ragged, lopsided shapes that look all funny when cooked. Those Italians know something I don't.