In the Dough

A little shop named Julienne Gourmet Market is obsessed with putting tasty stuff inside dough. Every day it has a couple of pot pies (varieties include beef, chicken, lamb and turkey chili--the latter with a cornmeal crust). There are also several types of large ravioli, such as chicken, seafood, Southwestern turkey, potato and mushroom puree.

Pot pies, $5.95 apiece, and ravioli, $7.95 to $10.95 a dozen, from Julienne Gourmet Market, 1649 Mission St., San Marino, (626) 441-2299.

Sweet Cloths

Vintage tablecloth fabric and old-fashioned ticking lend a gentle charm to these place mats from Drennen and Drennen. The same fruit and floral fabrics are also available in napkins and tea towels.

Drennen & Drennen napkins, $20; tea towels, $20; and place mats, $23; from Cecilia Kelly on Montana, Santa Monica.

Edible Stripes and Solids

Here’s a recipe for a memorable lasagna: striped sheets of pasta (in two color schemes: saffron yellow, tomato red and spinach green; egg yellow, mushroom brown and spinach) . . . in a light cream sauce, of course, so everybody can see the bright colors. Like fabrics, these pastas also come in solids (egg, tomato and spinach) for more sober occasions.

Pulgini Pasta products, for an 8.75-ounce package, from HomeChef, Pasadena and Newport Beach.

This May Be Your Bag

Say you really have no time to cook (and shop and clean up) but don’t want to eat out every night. And say you want nutritionally balanced food, high in fiber, low in fat, with no additives, and it has to be distinctly better than TV dinners. OK, the Urban Bag sounds like your answer. The bag contains four entrees along with vegetable and starch side dishes, organic salad, whole grain bread and a pint of soup. It’s delivered between 3 and 6 p.m. on a Tuesday afternoon, to your home or business, in recyclable microwaveable containers (on weekends, you’re own your own--unless, presumably, you order two bags).

Urban Bag, $80 for four meals ($75 for additional bag delivered to same address), from Urban Foods, (310) 314-2743; fax (310) 314-2744.