Ravioli Party

My friend Aquafabulous decided to host a ravioli-making (and eating party). I thought it was an awesome idea! We wound up making a whole bunch of different flavors, most of them vegan. A feast was had by all. I have some photographs of the ravioli-making process, but none of the people since I didn't feel like asking for permission to post them. Instead I'll give you a quick how-to of ravioli making.

Step 1: Assemble your fillings:

Some of our fillings.

Step 2: Make your dough, roll it out thin and flat, and drape it on your ravioli tray (or just lay it flat on the table if you don't have one).

Putting the pasta dough on the ravioli tray.

Step 3: Put little blobs of filling on your dough. If you have a ravioli tray they go in the wells, if not just try and get them evenly spaced.

Filling the tray.

Step 4: Cover the ravioli filling with another sheet of dough, pinch the parts around the filling closed, and cut it out in the shape of ravioli.

Ravioli!

Step 5: Boil the ravioli.

Boiling the ravioli.

Step 6: Set the table so it's pretty.

Table set for dinner. Christmas tablecloth, ravioli, salad, garlic bread, fancy dishes.

Step 7: Eat your delicious food.

My plate. Lots of delicious carbs. 

Christmas Recap

On the day before Christmas Eve, Joy and Mini T and I went to visit Belle at her parents' house. We walked the dogs in their adorable Christmas attire, Mini T got her present from Belle, and then we got a phone call from Joy's friend asking if we wanted to stay in a hotel for the night. Of course the answer was yes! So we all piled into a gorgeous room at the hotel. We did our present swap there, swam in the pool, and ate free food while looking out at a gorgeous view of Boston.

Joy and I in a convenience store.

Mini T likes her present (a big stuffed horse) from Belle.

Joy, Belle, and two tiny dogs in Christmas pajamas.

Two tiny dogs in Christmas pajamas.

Me looking at the camera and holding a deck of tarot cards that says "Gay Tarot." 

Joy, Mini T, and Belle in the hotel room looking excited.

Belle looking thrilled about the machine with free Starbucks coffee.

The view.

The view.

The view.

On Christmas Eve I did family Christmas dinner with some of my extended family. Then that night I had Cupcake over for presents, panettone, and hot chocolate. We lit the Christmas tree, put on some Christmas music, and I found a channel on Netflix that was just two hours of video of fire because our chimney isn't usable and I wanted a fireplace. Joy and Mini T joined us in their footie pjs for the hot chocolate part.

Me, Belle, and Joy in the car on the way home from the hotel. 

Some of my family at Christmas Eve dinner.

Rosie sits on a chair in front of the Christmas tree with presents and fireplace with stockings.

Dressed up for church.

Christmas tree all lit up. 

Fake fireplace.

On Christmas day I woke up and did housemate Christmas, where I finally got to unveil my Christmas video! I'd been working on it for a while with the help of Cupcake and Atticus. After housemate Christmas I did a quick stop to see my brother and his fiancée. Then it was off to Queer Family Christmas where we ate an amazing dinner by Purl and a yule log made by Fancy.

Me in a santa hat, ready for Christmas.

Karma opening a present.

Secondo opening a present.

Primo demonstrates his new Thor costume.

Terzo with his present.

Secondo, Terzo, and Plum (in her dragon onesie).

Me, Plum, Karma, Secondo, Primo, Terzo.

Primo made me a Christmas ornament.

I won $1 on my Christmas scratch tickets.

My lovely soon-to-be sister in law.

My parents with scratch tickets.

Fancy is ready to eat her yule log.

And here's one of my favorite part of Christmas. The dogs in their Christmas outfits:

Sebastian the Reindeer.

Rosie the Elf.

Sebastian and Rosie on their walk.

Merry Christmas!

It's Christmas and now that I've debuted it before all of my housemates, I can show you the Christmas present I was working on. The Twelve Days of Christmas - Co-op Style!

Enjoy! Some of the formatting got a little wonky when I uploaded it but I think it came out well.

Vermont!

This weekend Cupcake and I drove up to Vermont to hang out with Atticus. We had a blast! We started the weekend with a very looooooong snowy drive. But when we arrived, we made tasty dinner, Atticus made some delicious drinks, and before long we were all hanging out in her living room with a bunch of cozy blankets and my Super Secret Christmas Present (to be revealed on Christmas). The next morning, I woke to this view:

View out of Atticus' window.

We'd decided to do a culinary tour of Vermont, so we started things off by getting breakfast at a Dutch pancake house that Cupcake had heard about.

Atticus and me at the pancake house.

After breakfast, we headed to Stowe and wandered into a bunch of little craft shops because we needed some time to digest before eating anything else:

Stone geese in front of a river.

Cupcake in a hammock.

Atticus in front of a bunch of wind chimes.

Tire goat sculpture.

Moose sculpture.

Cupcake in front of a giant moose sculpture.

After that, we went off to Lake Champlain chocolates (no photos of that) and we took a random pit stop where we discovered a ginormous apple cider press, live bees, and a bunch of free samples.

Atticus driving.

Me in front of the apple cider press.

Bees!

Me in a fake sleigh.

From there we went to the Cabot Cheese outlet, where we gorged ourselves and Cupcake posed as a cow.

Cupcake the cow with a cane.

Cupcake eating cheese samples.

After that it was time for our last stop - the Ben and Jerry's factory! Cupcake and I joined forces to tackle the biggest ice cream sunday ever. Ok that's not true. It's the "Mini Vermonster" which means there is an even bigger one we didn't get because Atticus was done with food and there was no way two people could've handled it.

The Mini Vermonster.

Me and Cupcake with our ice cream.

At this point we were all so stuffed that the food tour was over and Atticus needed a nap. So we went back to her place and then Cupcake and I headed home, with one last pit stop late at night for vegan pizza. Because oh man I was so done with dairy at that point.

Blurry picture of me and Cupcake at the pizza place.