Pasta Ragout: Good Eats – Lousy Weather

In the past 24 hours, I’ve enjoyed 2 great pasta dishes and have experienced torrential downpours. The Duomo in Siena today was absolutely breathtaking but we got soaked and cold waiting in line to get in. Thankfully we enjoyed a wonderful dish of ravioli that warmed our hearts.

Tagliatelle ai Profumie del Bosco

Tagliatelli Pasta with Scents of the Forest

We devoured this pasta dish last night at our agroturismo with great quantities of wine made on the farm we were staying at. The tagliatelle pasta was homemade, tender and shaped like long, broad noodles. It was bathed in a ragout of ground pork and mushrooms (thus scents of the forest) in a brown sauce. If all I was eating was this dish I would have had at least two dishes. As it was this was only the second of five courses. Pasta in Italy is never served as a main course.

Ravioloni di Ricotta e Spinaci al Sugo di Agnello

Large Ravioli with Ricotta and Spinach in Lamb Ragout

These were some of the best ravioli that I have ever eaten. They had a creamy center of ricotta cheese and spinach and were bathed in a brown sauce that had small diced pieces of lamb with fresh thyme and mint. My only regret was that I did not order a second plate of the ravioli.