One of my late quarantine goals was to learn how to make those beautiful, naturally colored, striped ravioli that I saw all over Instagram. I took an online class from chef Joe Sasto (highly recommend by the way, he’s a great teacher) and consulted a few friends before my first attempt but once I started I was hooked, and it’s become one of my favorite pastimes at home.

This video is different from the others in a couple of ways, first this one is less instructional than the other videos. This is more of a meditation. The process of making pasta is relaxing. The kneading, the rolling, the cutting, the only thing to keep my attention away from the screens, it puts my mind at ease. Keeping my hands busy allows my mind to process events instead of spiral down them.

the second thing you will notice is instead of just ambient kitchen sounds we have a track from Dallas artist Andrés Valeriano (Andand). One of the major motives of this project was to have an outlet to communicate moments we were all having and emotions we were all feeling and the smooth, relaxed sounds of lo-fi king Andrés’ music added a lot to the experience while watching this video. The song is called Sunny Sixteen from the the 2019 album Shapes. You can find his music anywhere you stream music, search for Andand.