Ratio and Out of Proportion

We made ravioli tonight.

It is long overdue considering we won this bid last 28 August.


Yes, yes. I know the shipping costs more than the ravioli moulds themselves but I was happy to win the bidding. (I have this obsession with ravioli and these moulds were so much cheaper than the ones in the store even with the shipping cost.)

We were supposed to have the ravioli for last night but I didn't have time to prepare the dough. (Cake? Ravioli? Cake? Ravioli? Guess which one won?)

Anyway, since the refrigerator conked out on us last night, I had to get the ravioli started pronto.

I had gotten a kilo of pork mince and a kilo of beef mince from the butcher yesterday (while the cakes were cooling) and I didn't want the meat I got to die along with the ref. So this morning, I started on the dough and mixed up the meat that would go in it.

The recipe said, "1/4 lb of ground beef and 1/4 lb of ground veal."

So I reminded myself, "1 kilo equals 2.2 lbs" but I didn't really do the math. I just decided to use 1/2 k of pork and 1/2 k of beef.

So I actually had a kilo of meat which is 2.2 lbs instead of the supposed 1/2 lb.

No wonder when I was rolling out my last portion of dough, I still had a whole lot of meat left in the bowl.

Good grief! So much for my Engineering degree.

Well, if it is any consolation, the kids liked the ravioli.