Holy Ravioli!

After Erin got some much needed rest from running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off (the shower was a little stressful for her), we got together on Sunday to make some tasteful Italian dishes! I’m going to start today with how we made homemade raviolis that were delectable! Definitely worthy of making Grandma Guggino proud. So, let’s begin.

The recipe we use is quite simple to make the homemade pasta:

2 cups of flour

2 eggs

1tsp salt

4 tbs milk

That’s it! You then mix it until all of the ingredients are blended and it looks like this:

Next step is to roll it out!  Since we were a little scarce on counter-space, we rolled it out right on the flat top! Be sure to throw down some flour before hand; this actually worked really well for us. We made it in to a ball and rolled it out from there.

After it was all rolled out, leave it to dry. The best way to do this, as taught by Grandma Guggino, is to lay it on a towel and leave it alone! So, in true Italian style, we put them on the bed in the spare room haha; welcome house guests! Please excuse our fresh pasta drying on your bed. We made 5 batches that day.

In the mean time, we got started on the meat that we were going to put in the raviolis. Here we have a pound of ground chuck with some parsley, garlic, salt and pepper.

We browned the meat and drained the grease. After that, we mixed in some fresh parmesan and some of the parmesan dressing from Carrabbas that we had from the shower the day before. Their house dressing has amazing flavor and it made the meat mixture taste sooo good!

After the pasta dried for about an hour, we laid it across two cutting boards and it was time to cut! We started with this little cutting tool, but we later learned that you could just use a wine glass like you would a cookie cutter. It worked perfectly!

Then, it was time to stuff! A teaspoon of meat was really all that we could stuff into our lil raviolis (with enough space to pinch the sides closed), so we quickly got to work. Well, Erin did most of the stuffing; I was busy getting our wedding invites prepared to send out! Eeek!

We were going to be good girls and wait ‘til dinner to try our little creation, but we were way too excited! So Erin plopped some into an oven safe glass dish, through some mozzarella cheese and some sauce on top, and in the oven it went for 15 minutes. The outcome? Absolutely delicious!!! I wish I had after pictures, but we ate them all… Best part? The boys loved them too. You could cook them in the sauce like we did, or you could boil them like regular pasta. Either way works, the only part you have to cook is the pasta. Next on the list, homemade spaghetti sauce! Stay tuned kiddos!