Comments on: Recipe of the Week: Orecchiette With Rabbit Ragu http://manolobig.com/2010/01/17/recipe-of-the-week-orecchiette-with-rabbit-ragu/ Fashion, Lifestyle, and Humor for the Plus Sized Woman. Fri, 25 May 2012 01:26:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: chachaheels http://manolobig.com/2010/01/17/recipe-of-the-week-orecchiette-with-rabbit-ragu/comment-page-1/#comment-230535 chachaheels Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:52:06 +0000 http://manolobig.com/?p=4050#comment-230535 I just "inherited" 2 pasta machines, both the old fashioned kind, with a crank mechanism and a vise mechanism you can use to secure the machine to something that won't slip and slide while you work. You won't need a pasta machine for this, though; you just need flour and some warm water, a nice work surface, something to cut up the little discs once your roll the pasta dough into long "snakes", and your thumbs. They add the technology! Here's a simple recipe http://rosas-yummy-yums.blogspot.com/2007/07/homemade-orecchiette.html (it's workable, but disregard the writer's advice to "cook the pasta until it's al dente"--it's fresh pasta, only dry pasta can cook to "al dente". It only needs a few minutes) and here's a video: http://www.5min.com/Video/Orecchiette-Pasta-with-Vegetables-Recipe-142094755 good luck! I just “inherited” 2 pasta machines, both the old fashioned kind, with a crank mechanism and a vise mechanism you can use to secure the machine to something that won’t slip and slide while you work.

You won’t need a pasta machine for this, though; you just need flour and some warm water, a nice work surface, something to cut up the little discs once your roll the pasta dough into long “snakes”, and your thumbs. They add the technology!

Here’s a simple recipe
http://rosas-yummy-yums.blogspot.com/2007/07/homemade-orecchiette.html

(it’s workable, but disregard the writer’s advice to “cook the pasta until it’s al dente”–it’s fresh pasta, only dry pasta can cook to “al dente”. It only needs a few minutes)

and here’s a video:
http://www.5min.com/Video/Orecchiette-Pasta-with-Vegetables-Recipe-142094755

good luck!

]]> By: Twistie http://manolobig.com/2010/01/17/recipe-of-the-week-orecchiette-with-rabbit-ragu/comment-page-1/#comment-230512 Twistie Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:31:33 +0000 http://manolobig.com/?p=4050#comment-230512 Sorry, Bobbi, but I don't have a pasta machine and haven't really done any research into the question as of yet. The reason I talked about sometime trying to make the orecchiette by hand is because they are a sort of shape that wouldn't use a pasta machine. Basically, you make your dough, cut it into little rounds, then press your thumb into them to make the shape. Also, confession: the last time I made pasta by hand was in a deceptively-named Home Ec class in high school (they called it euphemistically 'On Your Own') when we were taught to make some fettucini by hand...entirely by hand. No machine. If anyone else has any advice for Bobbi, I'd love you to share it with the class. Sorry, Bobbi, but I don’t have a pasta machine and haven’t really done any research into the question as of yet. The reason I talked about sometime trying to make the orecchiette by hand is because they are a sort of shape that wouldn’t use a pasta machine. Basically, you make your dough, cut it into little rounds, then press your thumb into them to make the shape.

Also, confession: the last time I made pasta by hand was in a deceptively-named Home Ec class in high school (they called it euphemistically ‘On Your Own’) when we were taught to make some fettucini by hand…entirely by hand. No machine.

If anyone else has any advice for Bobbi, I’d love you to share it with the class.

]]> By: Bobbi http://manolobig.com/2010/01/17/recipe-of-the-week-orecchiette-with-rabbit-ragu/comment-page-1/#comment-230485 Bobbi Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:51:38 +0000 http://manolobig.com/?p=4050#comment-230485 Twistie, I am beginning to research pasta mill/machine?? Whatever it is called, I want to make pasta, preferably a hand crank model because I have rotten wiring in my old place. Do you have a recommendation? Twistie, I am beginning to research pasta mill/machine?? Whatever it is called, I want to make pasta, preferably a hand crank model because I have rotten wiring in my old place. Do you have a recommendation?

]]> By: susan http://manolobig.com/2010/01/17/recipe-of-the-week-orecchiette-with-rabbit-ragu/comment-page-1/#comment-230413 susan Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:30:46 +0000 http://manolobig.com/?p=4050#comment-230413 Oh, this brings back memories! 25 years ago I was in Air Force basic training. At the mess hall they had the biggest and best whole chicken legs. After eating them for about a week, I asked for them again. I was informed that it was rabbit. Luckily I had no problem with that. Oh, this brings back memories!

25 years ago I was in Air Force basic training. At the mess hall they had the biggest and best whole chicken legs. After eating them for about a week, I asked for them again. I was informed that it was rabbit. Luckily I had no problem with that.

]]> By: chachaheels http://manolobig.com/2010/01/17/recipe-of-the-week-orecchiette-with-rabbit-ragu/comment-page-1/#comment-230309 chachaheels Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:43:07 +0000 http://manolobig.com/?p=4050#comment-230309 Rabbit's hard to find in the supermarket (unless you happen to be near a supermarket that loves to stock "gourmet" meats, like rabbit and quail and cornish hens and capons, and some do). But I've been able to find it at butcher shops or at smaller Italian grocery stores where they still have a meat counter, to sell the specialty sausages and various cuts that aren't so readily found in the larger stores. When it is there, the butcher will section the rabbit any way you like, so you don't have to do it at home. It pays to look for these smaller specialty food stores as a source, just because they can cater to a more particular market. ps: thank you for posting this recipe--I've been faced with a BIG bag of orecchietti for a while now, wondering what to do with them, and this looks like the perfect solution. Rabbit’s hard to find in the supermarket (unless you happen to be near a supermarket that loves to stock “gourmet” meats, like rabbit and quail and cornish hens and capons, and some do). But I’ve been able to find it at butcher shops or at smaller Italian grocery stores where they still have a meat counter, to sell the specialty sausages and various cuts that aren’t so readily found in the larger stores.

When it is there, the butcher will section the rabbit any way you like, so you don’t have to do it at home. It pays to look for these smaller specialty food stores as a source, just because they can cater to a more particular market.

ps: thank you for posting this recipe–I’ve been faced with a BIG bag of orecchietti for a while now, wondering what to do with them, and this looks like the perfect solution.

]]> By: Twistie http://manolobig.com/2010/01/17/recipe-of-the-week-orecchiette-with-rabbit-ragu/comment-page-1/#comment-230149 Twistie Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:44:01 +0000 http://manolobig.com/?p=4050#comment-230149 Rabbit is not the easiest meat to find, which is another reason to go with chicken in a pinch, but when I've found it at the butcher's counter, it's usually been a whole beast rather than cuts. Just take off the legs at the joint and cut the saddle in half with a really good chef's knife. It's my good luck to have some friends who recently got into the bunny business, and who are willing to share with me. I am completely spoilt, and glad of it. Rabbit is not the easiest meat to find, which is another reason to go with chicken in a pinch, but when I’ve found it at the butcher’s counter, it’s usually been a whole beast rather than cuts. Just take off the legs at the joint and cut the saddle in half with a really good chef’s knife.

It’s my good luck to have some friends who recently got into the bunny business, and who are willing to share with me. I am completely spoilt, and glad of it.

]]> By: Toby Wollin http://manolobig.com/2010/01/17/recipe-of-the-week-orecchiette-with-rabbit-ragu/comment-page-1/#comment-230140 Toby Wollin Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:16:42 +0000 http://manolobig.com/?p=4050#comment-230140 Question: Is buying rabbit in the store like buying chicken, in that you can buy whatever cuts you want in whatever combo you want? Or, is it strictly a case where, in the chicken example, you'd buy a whole chicken or even a chicken cut into halves or quarters? I have to admit that I have never looked for rabbit at my supermarche, but I'm going to take a look just to see.. Question: Is buying rabbit in the store like buying chicken, in that you can buy whatever cuts you want in whatever combo you want? Or, is it strictly a case where, in the chicken example, you’d buy a whole chicken or even a chicken cut into halves or quarters? I have to admit that I have never looked for rabbit at my supermarche, but I’m going to take a look just to see..

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