Food should be also a feast for the eyes!

Food is not only for satisfying hunger. It's more!

It's something social. It makes more fun to eat with friends than sitting alone in front of a plate.
And it's something for many sences.
At first you see the plate and hopyfully it looks nice. Than you smell the food and you're getting exited about eating and tasting it at the end should be the highlight.
But all three steps are (in my opinion) important and they belong together.

Since I love the first step quit a lot, I try to come up with something special every now and then.
This time I chose a special shape for my new pasta.

Sacchettini Quattro Formaggi

Pasta - 2nd batch

This time I made the pasta dough half and half.
I mixed flour and semolina 50:50. I added eggs and olive oil.

The stuffing was a spinach-cheese mix.


Thanks to my little helper - I have always the perfect thickness for the Tortellini.

homemade pasta

It took me several months to make my favourit dish again.

Tortellini with Gorgonzola Sauce.

To get Tortellini, Ravioli or other fresh stuffed pasta in a supermarket in Belize is impossible. So I had to do it myself. You can make the pasta dough with flour, eggs and olive oil or you can make it with semolina, olive oil and water.

This time I choose the variation with flour and eggs.



I decided to make a hearty ground steak stuffing for the Tortellini and Ravioli. Next time I'll maybe prepare a shrimp - lemmon gras or a spinach - ricotta stuffing.

After more than 50 little handmade Tortellini I decided to do some Tagliatelle - this is much easier and not so time-consuming ;)



And with the leftover of the ground steak. We'll have "Pasta Bolgonese" for tomorrow's lunch.