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Sweet Corn & Squash Ravioli with Toybox Cherry Tomatoes & Basil

Corn puns are so easy. As a reminder if you would like the recipe for any food reviews, just click on the photo (it should be linked to the pdf of the recipe card). Random note, I started Instagram to do food reviews mostly. The reviews were getting long, so I moved over to the blog format (still posting on IG) but you guys seem to enjoy the workout blogs better which is baffling to me. I mostly followed the directions on this one. I modified a few things, like the card calls for cooking the zucchini and corn in a sauté pan but I have quite a few pots (I call them soup pots I don't actually know the name) that are really wide but deep so when I'm building sauces that end up having pasta added I like them. I diced my zucchini a bit smaller and my tomatoes a bit smaller as it makes it easier to convince the natives to eat said vegetables. Interesting tidbit about the natives, they both really like raw tomatoes, the both really like pasta sauces that are tomato based, but for some reason cooked tomatoes in a dish are not their favorite. So far step one is going well.

Step two has me boiling the pasta, reserving pasta water (again remembering to double because of how Gobble sends their stuff), and sautéing veggies. Personally I would have split this into 2 steps. I roll into step three, patting myself on the back for following directions. Step 3 is the last step. Add tomatoes, add shallot confit, add, your corn puree, add butter. Stir and serve....wait a minute, when do I add the pasta water? Read again. Directions have not changed. It had me reserve the water but not use it. I ignored them. I'm too lazy to check at the moment but I'm pretty sure I wrote an article about building your pasta sauce with your salted water already. I decided to add it after adding the butter and the ravioli to make sure the sauce coated the pasta well. I also cheated and used some of what I call liquid gold, which is chicken stock concentrate. I'm not at all opposed to a vegetarian meal. Not even opposed to a vegan meal. But we aren't vegetarians, and I really like the warmth the stock concentrate adds to the depth of flavors of a sauce so I'm apt to add it when not feeding actual vegans and vegetarians.

Rated 4 sweet teas

Hunter said he would eat the sauce as a soup. It was really good. Probably one of the first times in a long time the natives didn't even comment about the vegetables. Ate without comment. That is a big win. Honestly this could have been 5 sweet teas, maybe even full gallon status, but I'm starting to get frustrated with the directions of all things. It isn't because I can't figure it out. It is because I keep thinking I'm missing something, and so I read, re-read, read, check to make sure my contacts are in, and read again. It messes with my cooking flow and that is dangerous. I'll let it go for now because the ingredients have been good, the recipe flavors have been pretty good, and the box shows up on time. But it is driving me nuts (for anyone claiming I might already be nuts...hush, the rest of them don't need to know that).