Dave and Kristin (brother and sister) grew up in a family that loves food - and wine - and spends much of their quality time enjoying both.

We love to innovate in the kitchen together, creating new recipes or trying new challenges (like making homemade pasta). Dave is moving away to grad school so we're starting this blog as a way to virtually cook together and share our love of food with others that share our passion. Please share your favorite recipes, enjoy ours, and bon appetit!

Friday, July 18, 2008

As our first post we spent a weekend making homemade raviolis. It wasn't supposed to take the whole weekend, but somehow it was 9pm on Friday night before we even were in the grocery store buying our ingredients. Needless to say, it was 2am before we sat down to eat our first raviolis and it was late Saturday before we could finish making our big batches. All the effort was definitely worth the effort and we still, a month later, are enjoying our efforts! Here is the pasta recipe plus the four fillings we used -

For fresh pasta: See the video below (or follow directions on the first recipe link). Making fresh pasta seems daunting at first, but after trying it out a few times you begin to get the hang of it and its actually very simple... and definitely worth the effort.

Here is Dave making homemade pasta dough for the ravioli -





Here are the recipes we used for the fillings:

Arugula and Goat Cheese Ravioli

Cheese Ravioli with Fresh Tomato Sauce
We made two versions of this recipe:
1. Ricotta and Parmesan only
2. Ricotta, sundried tomato, basil, and smoked mozzarella
We also used this sauce instead (but add a 1/4 cup red wine).

Artichoke and fennel ravioli

Enjoy!