I have not abandoned you

although you have been all but replaced by twitter. Of course, you have twitter to thank for this post, since stickyheels st patty's day post inspired me to write it.


anyway, I made homemade ravioli last night! it was actually really easy, I had leftover roast chicken, and some othe rstuff. I think you could use whatever you wanted, just about, and it used wonton wrappers for pasta!!

Here's the rundown. First, I processed some cottage cheese until smooth (you could use ricotta, but cottage cheese is just as good, cheaper, and I had some) I then dumped that out, and processed the chicken until chopped pretty fine. I combined all that, some italian seasoning, some parmesan, some thawed, chopped frozen spinach (squeezed dry, of course) and two eggs. Mix it really good with what AB would call the best implements ever, two clean hands.


You could probably refirdgerate for a couple of days at this point, if necessary.

Then, lay out some wonton wrappers
and put water around the edges (I just used my fingers, I ruined my pastry brush using it on something hot. probably a chicken.)

Then, put a little tablespoon full of filling on each one, and press another wonton sheet down on top.
seal well.

I forgot to mention you should have some butter warming in a skillet at medium to low eat at this point.

saute the ravioli's for, well, awhile. until brown on one side.

I then flipped them and browned them on the other, because more stuff browned in butter is always better than less.

While they saute, you can experiment with your graduated cookie cutters and other shapes.


Or make raviolis like chinese dumplings, with one ravioli per sheet.

When you have this many ravioli made

and this much filling left over

remember that's why God invented lasagna.

add them back to the pan, and dump in some marinara sauce. I broke one of my main rules last night and used jarred sauce (homemade sauce is really easy to make, and then I can it) the trader joe's sauce is good, as is newman's own.

Simmer them for awhile, until they are nice and soft. serve with garlic bread. they were reeaaalllly good.