Making Ravioli from Scratch

I know, I know... Harry and Mer, you guys are just too wild; making homemade ravioli on New Year's Eve. What can I say, we live on the wild side.

So, Harry got me a ravioli maker for Christmas and tonight we decided to test it out by making some cheese ravioli. Here's how we did it...

Step One: Pour some wine (cooking is so much more fun when you can drink).

Step Two: Make the dough and roll it into thin strips. (Yes Harry did help with this part, but I ended up doing most of the rolling. It was a pain because the dough is really tough.)

Step Three: Place the rolled out dough on the ravioli maker mold and fill with cheese.

Step Four: Cover the mold with another sheet of rolled dough.

Step Five: Roll a rolling pin over the ravioli mold containing the dough and the cheese. (The mold acts as a cookie cutter that pinches the edges of the ravioli together and cuts them apart.) Harry really liked using the teeny tiny roller, he said it made him feel like a giant.

Step Six: Shake the ravioli out of the mold.

Step Seven: Celebrate freedom from the mold with your ravioli!

Step Eight: Boil your ravioli for 10 minutes. You should probably go ahead and make your sauce now too; otherwise your ravioli will be a little dry. Delicious, but dry. Oh, and check out my new stainless steel pots. Fancy, huh? (Also, see if you can spot the product placements.)

Step Nine: Plate and enjoy!

Our ravioli was YUMMY! You can really taste the difference between homemade/fresh pasta, and store bought/frozen pasta. We ended up making 58 ravioli and freezing 36 of them (some ravioli were lost in the transfer to the freezer, they will be missed).

Poor Phoebe was too excited about the ravioli and the New Year, she just passed out. Oh well, we will celebrate without her!

Happy New Year Everybody!!