Friday evenings really mark the start of another fresh week. I like them and make sure I plan hearty meal outings or stay at home for a very good nosh of the week.
Last Friday evening, I headed for Cluny Court's Cold Storage and picked up a whole wheat ravioli imported from California. I think it's from Monterey, or close to it, where I once studied my Masters for a short while. I recalled the best, if not the second best spaghetti and wine I enjoyed at Monterey Wharf, prepared by a chef who won the second prize in the entire US. It went a little beyond my expectation- I didn't expect such great pasta outside Roma; besides, it was inexpensive. I remember it was about US70 for two.
This vegetable and cheese ravioli tasted better then Buittoni's Four Cheese-perhaps it is an unfair comparison. I bought Alle Melanzane from da Paolo Gastronomique to go with it. The sauce was fabulous- I liked the olive oil embedded in the morsels of soft sweet eggplant. To serve it, I picked Two Oceans Pinotage 2004 which was going cheap at about SGD 21. Of course, I remembered my greens- Arugula salad. Alles schmeckt sehr guht.
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