Adventures in the Scoville Kitchen

A couple weeks ago Wes and I actually attempted to make: homemade Tortellini with a slow-roasted homemade tomato sauce (not once, but twice!),  Whiskey- Chocolate Mousse, Zucchini bread, and Shashuka all in the same week. (Disclaimer: we didn't consume all of these on our own mind you!) It was a very overwhelming week in the kitchen, and frankly kind of embarrassing to tell you about. Why we attempted to take on so many new recipes in one week, I'm not quite sure of. It was one of those things where we said, "This is what we want to make this week" and so we stuck with it, and never once thought "ehh.... maybe we should pick only one?..." So we set out on a Monday night to make some Pasta dough for Tortellini with our nifty pasta maker that we got for Christmas (thanks Scott and Bekah!). Mind you, this wasn't just our first time making Tortellini, this was our first time making pasta dough. We were inspired to make the tortellini as well as the accompanying homemade sauce because of the recipes we saw on a blog called What Katie Ate. This was dinner... Chocolate mousse was for The Bourbon Intelligencer (Wes' blog), Zucchini bread was made for an event I helped put on in my art class; and the Shashuka was just yummy breakfast on a Wednesday morning.

Unfortunately the tortellini was a complete disaster. I basically translated the wrong amount of pasta flour into our dough mixture, which made for very tough thick dough. :/ So because we failed miserably the first night (seriously, inedible!!), and because we had a lot of leftover ingredients we attempted to make the tortellini again the following night, only this time - the right way! .... aaaaaaand... failed again. :( After our second go around, we felt that either the dough recipe we used wasn't great or we aren't making the dough thin enough. Everything else turned out pretty good though!!

 

 More kitchen adventures to come!

We have been enjoying summer and hope you have been too.