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The Pursuit Of Happiness: Week In Review

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What an event (read: full day process of trial and error and experimenting) ravioli making can be. About six months ago, my cousin Rachel and I both bought kitchenmaid attachment ravioli makers on super sale to make our homemade pasta making more creative and easy. Fast forward to this week. Both of our attachments were still sitting pretty and untouched in the unopened box they came in. Each time I walk into my kitchen, it stares at me. And, thus I was determined to use it. So I invited Rachel over to finally make us of one of our ravioli attachments. And it worked...okay. But the overall result was fantastic.

We decided to make butternut squash & gorgonzola ravioli, using homemade pasta dough. In the end it was good life choice, but we had some extreme doubts as we went through the process. Unbelievably, it has been almost a year since I last made homemade pasta, so my dough making game was a bit off. Rachel and I had to make two batches of dough before we got it right (note to self: mixing all of the different excess flours you have leftover in your pantry is not always the smartest of ideas). Our good batch use pasta flour, solely.

The Pursuit Of Happiness: 2.76

Happy almost Halloween -- or All Hallow's Eve. The day start out with a Halloween inspired morning swim, including "tombstone" kicking laps, ghost style free, and spirited drawings.


The evening presented itself with costumes, decorations, friends, and food, lots of food. I was excited to attend Lauren's annual All Hallows Eve dinner party. Her house was decorated just fabulously, amazingly. The ambiance was perfect. It was spooky. It was festive. It was haunted. It was brilliant. I gorged myself on Halloween themed food: seasoned pumpkin seeds, a spider cheese log, mummy jalapeño poppers, pumpkin chips and guac, 44 clove garlic soup, roasted fall veggies, ghost meringues, pumpkin cookies, and of course a ton of Halloween candy. I got to spend time with friends, watch Hocus Pocus, listen to the monster mash, and play Halloween themed games. Plus, I got a goody bag. And, I won the *cha-ching, cha-ching* big cash prize costume contest. Can you guess what I was from the photo?! That's right, an ice cream cone with sprinkles, whipped cream, and a cherry on top. It was quite the magical night. Thanks Lauren, for stuffing me for days and outdoing yourself once again! Oh how I love Halloween and the Halloween spirit.