Bella was the first one to get into the pool this summer. She said, “I’m going to get used to it like Uncle Basil does”, and then leapt into the pool in a full body dunk! I know that water was freezing. But Bella didn’t care. It’s summertime.
She was wearing a cute green and rainbow bikini, and was just beautiful as always.
Beckett got to go to a Greenville Drive baseball game with Basil, Uncle Grant, Aunt Kristine, Blake, and Devon over Memorial Day weekend. He loved the fact that they served chocolate ice cream in little baseball helmets, and it looks like that will be his permanent ice cream bowl this summer.
Basil said that Beckett did okay at the game, but that he was probably ready to go after around inning 6. He cried all the way through the fireworks, and screamed that they were too loud. Poor kid. He inherited my hyper sense of sound. I was the teenager wearing ear plugs to the Metallica concert. I know how he feels.
I got adventurous today, and broke out the Ronco dehydrator again. I have been eyeing the raw eggplant ravioli recipe over at VeganMenu.Blogspot.com.
So, this morning I got up and made my own version of it with what I had in the house. I am so envious of the mandoline that tofu666 uses! I had to cut my eggplant down in circumfrence to make it work with my (ahem, cheap ass!) mandoline. So, my ravioli were not as big and lucious as they could have been. But the flavor? Wonderful!
Also, I made a really simple orange pepper sauce to top it off with instead of the alfredo, since I knew that Basil would like the pepper sauce more. I served it over julienned carrots with a little sprinkling of spinach on top for garnish.
Overall, I think it’s a great raw meal, and one that I want to try again. Next time I will use two pieces of my small eggplant to make one ravioli, so that they can be a little more formidable. Oh, and I misread the recipe and used the juice of one entire lemon in the marinade which made my ravioli kind of tangy. I actually really liked that, and don’t think I’d change it the next time I make this dish.