Bistro Ravioli

We were MOA-ing the other day and cuzin' Che blurted what was ravioli meant. I said it's somekind of pasta which has filling inside and like common spaghetti serves with tomato sauce ( maybe not always tomato based but the ones I had eaten were in tomato) .




Then she pushed the group inside this resto _ Bistro Ravioli cos she thought she needed to experience the dish.



The Bistro is proud to show that pasta is freshly house/resto made. When we arrived , we saw a kitchen staff kneeding some dough in a see thru glass pantry. Pretty impressive !






Immediately we ordered green salad with bacon bits and croutons. Caesar dressed. Good but a lil' salty for my tongue.

Kyla took a kiddie plate_ spaghetti with cheese and hotdogs.

Bianx and her pizza pepperoni , ofcourse shared by everyone. On salty side too but great to eat with the sauce of the ravioli.

Myka's carbonara was good and I gave credit to the quality of the pasta rather than the sauce.

Finally, Che's ravioli. She opted for the latest filling, which was the house/resto's cornedbeef. It was delicious and we were surprised that it was heavy on the tummy.


J arrived to fetch us and had to cancel his pasta cos he got full already with our left overs even before his order was finalized. The servings were enough for sharing and very filling. Must be the house pasta.

Everyone was satisfied.

DIY Tomato Salsa/Spaghetti Sauce

Lots of tomatoes in the market. Big, plump, juicy and best of all cheap..it's in season. Ofcourse I bought_ a kilo for P20.





I decided to whisk them into a sauce or a salsa. Whatever turns out :))


From my memory box, I tried to dig some recipe from the past. The thing is for a lifetime now, I suffer from short memory span. But when it comes to food/recipe, for unknown reason to me, my cooking lessons from school or from my mother's kitchen always pop out when needed. That's sharp :)




To remove the skin of the tomatoes, I dunked each in a pot of boiling water. By batches of 3 to 4 pieces. When the skin appeared to wrinkle I transferred each to a bowl of cold water with ice on it.




The tomato should look more or less like this with some skin voluntary peeled off. The rest of the skin_ you have to remove them. Worry not, they're so easy to peel off.

After I skinned the fruit, I started to remove the seeds and squeeze unnecessary liquids off the tomato.


I chopped a half bulb of garlic and one whole medium onion and the tomatoes. Sauteed them all together, put some salt and pepper and went beyond the original recipe cheated on by sprinkling Mccormic Italian Seasoning and added store bought tomato paste.




Voila!!! My very own home made all purpose salsa for nachos and what have you..




Great too as spaghetti sauce !!! Promise_ it's del-iciousoo!!! Want some??:)))