Thomas Deloney, "God sends meat and the devil sends cooks."
Another Friday Night in Winslow!
That's right folks, it's Friday night and we're in the little town of Winslow with nothing but the sounds of our dog, Molly Brown, barking at the leaves rustling in the wind, down the road, the donkey's "eeyore" and hillbillies revving their engines and firing their shotguns.... Ah, Winslow.
Anyway, tonight we make homemade ravioli for the first time! If you remember we made fettuccine with success a few months ago, now we want to conquer ravioli, mostly just because we can think of millions of not so good for you fillings for them! I chose to go with spinach, provolone and pepper jack cheese, with bacon bits! First we threw all of that stuff into our new Ninja food processor.......
And viola!
It doesn't look that appetizing but we'll see!
We just put that mixture in the fridge and were on to making the pasta. We used our larger Ninja, threw in the water, oil, eggs, salt, and flour and let'er rip! After it's mixed together well, you have to knead it a little and then you end up with a perfect dough ball!
Next we rolled the dough out. We weren't able to use our cool pasta roller because we used a different recipe for the pasta this time, which included oil, and it just wouldn't go through the roller right, so we did it the old fashioned way, with a rolling pin. Once we got the sheets rolled out we placed them on our new Ravioli press, filled them, put the other sheet on top and roll again.
And that's that! Beautiful little homemade raviolis
We took about a dozen of them and boiled them for just a couple minutes, then tossed them with some olive oil, parmesan cheese, and red chili pepper flake, they came out tasting awesome. The good thing is we made a ton of them, so we were able to freeze some for another time!
Goodnight all!
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