Mama Jo: We have discovered (a special thank you to the cooking class!)
RAVIOLI!
Everyone knows that practice makes perfect. I have been "perfecting" up a storm. In fact, Go-Bot said recently, "Mama Jo (that's me)...we sure have been having ravioli a lot lately. I'm not complaining or anything, it's just that we've never had it before and now we have it, like, all the time." My reply: "Shaddup and eat!"Ravioli, from start to finish!
Roll out the fresh pasta in your handy, dandy pasta maker!
Notice that there are two different recipes of filling.
One is a cheese filling and the other is italian sausage and sundried tomato.
You roll it out several times getting it very thin.
You place one piece of pasta on the ravioli form! Add your favorite filling.
(I have two different forms so you can tell which filling you're choosing!)
You can spritz a little water (to make the dough "stick" to itself) before adding layer number two of fresh pasta.
Roll the top of the pasta to form the raviolies.
Pop them out and then...
...put them into the pot to boil!
Before the fancy, schmancy ravioli form, you lay out your first layer of pasta on the counter, place dollops of filling, spritz, place second layer of pasta, seal and cut with a fancy ravioli dough cutter (meaning it isn't just straight and boring!)
These raviolies, because of their imperfection, have lots of character!
Not to mention their yummy, delectable goodness!
Buona Pasta!
