Valentine's Day

On February 13 we went to a cooking class that some of Jon's former co-workers has gifted us. The class was learning to cook homemade pastas. Jon already makes pasta, but it was neat to learn it from these chef's and to have all these gourmet ingredients to work with- fresh herbs, fancy mushrooms, and marscipone cheese. We created a tomato sauce, a mushroom filling for ravioli, and a cheese filling for tortellini. Then we made the dough, rolled it out, and learned how to shape it into ravioli, tortellini, and fettucini. In the end, all the simple yet rich flavors were just delicious. On Valentine's day we ate our left-overs with the tomato sauce Jon recreated. Here he is in our kitchen cooking. Notice the pink towel, which we received as a gift, which he had refused to use except that it made perfect sense for Valentines day!