Although the rest of our families were far away we enjoyed our Mother's Day together relaxing, going to the Farmer's Market and cooking a delicious meal. I decided Mother's Day was a good time to purchase a pasta maker at our wonderful local department store, Rains; we got one imported from Italy. Virginia had seen Nonnie, her mother-in-law, make raviolis many times. We made two fillings: mushroom and pesto and proceeded with genuine semolina flour to roll wads of dough through the pasta machine until we could "see the shadow of the hand" through the sheet. Some kind of cooking omerta or maybe just an odd translation. We also picked and steamed some of the artichoke abundance and served it with garlic butter. Virginia spent quite a bit of time in the hammock (Thanks, Jeff!) talking on the phone with her kids. We ended the evening in the hot tub; fortunately no photos were taken...
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