We left the lake about 8:30 am on Friday Apr 19 and headed to Camdenton to fill up with the $3.16/gallon gas and continued (with one rest stop) to Springfield to 65 South. Just across the Arkansas border we stopped again at a rest stop and tourist info site to get an updated Arkansas map. On to Conway for gas at $3.25 where we joined I-40 to Little Rock, then to I-430 to I-30 and finally left the interstate at Malvern and Hiway 9 to Holly Springs and arrived at Larry and Ellen's at 4:30pm. Ellen had just made it home and had changed into comfortable clothes and Larry was about to feed their 2 dogs.
Their plan for the weekend was to show us how to make pasta and of course to eat pasta. The photo above is Larry at the stove with the boiling pot of water and some squash filled ravioli. Ellen is at the butcher block tossing the ravioli with a butter and sage coating.
They had prepared and frozen the ravioli which was about 1/4 this size before it hit the boiling water.
Ellen coating some more. When it got time to eat, we failed to take any photos, but trust me, the ravioli disappeared quickly!! and with gusto!!!
Saturday afternoon project was to make linquini from scatch using the Kitchen aid with a dough hook and here Ellen is passing it through a double roller which kneads and flattens the dough.
Normally they would attach a cutter to the Kitchen Aid and pass the dough sheets through to get 1/4 inch wide strips, BUT the power went off!! Plan B: Larry got a knife and cut the dough sheets (under the towel to prevent dry out) into strips using the ruler we sterilized earlier. Thank goodness this happened about 5:30pm and it was still light outside.
However, the pot of boiling water had cooled toooo much so plan B-2 involved hanging the strips on a drying rack. The strips were dry enough to remove the next morning and put into the freezer. Pasta meal #2 was put on hold. Larry had cooked chicken on the grill, so we grab some lettuce and veggies from the frig and made a salad and Ellen took some frozen broccoli and added to the hot water on the stove and "wallah" we had a very nice dinner.
This was taken when we started eating by oil lamp light in the middle of the table. Note how dark the living room is thru the door between Carol and Ellen. There are windows that face south and NO light was coming in them.
Larry has fired up the grill for the first time in 2013 and is fixing chicken breasts. Their property goes to the tree line in the upper third of the picture, just past the bright yellow-green grass area. The monster tree to the left is a willow oak.
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