Tag Archives: fresh pasta

Mushroom Fettuccine

Speaking as someone who is learning to cook for a living, I’ve got a sad, embarrassing confession for you: I’m just not that into cooking meals at home these days. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I’m on my feet at 5AM and I’m baking biscuits by 6. Or maybe it’s [...]

Italian Christmas Ravioli Recipe

 

In our family, the most sacred food of all is one specific type of ravioli – the one my grandmother makes at Christmas time. Making this ravioli the way my Grandmother has all her life is a labor-intensive process involving a wooden rolling pin, a heavy board, and a lot of elbow grease and time. [...]

Fresh Goat Cheese Ravioli Recipe

 
This recipe involves fresh pasta. To learn how to make fresh pasta at home, see my post on making fresh pasta at home.
Ravioli is on my top ten list of comfort foods and goat cheese is high on my superlative list of ingredients. I love how it instantly add richness and divine flavor to, well, [...]

Making Fresh Pasta at Home

 
Although I am not exactly sure when the first time I had fresh pasta was, I’m guessing that it was the first Christmas that I had teeth enough to chew it. Once a year, several days before the holiday, my grandmother would bring out her huge, heavy wooden board and a long rolling pin and [...]