on thursday we had the executive chef from Sundance come and do some demonstrations on homemade pasta's and sauces. it was amazing! we focused on filled pastas like tortellini and ravioli with a crab filling and a goat cheese with ricotta filling. For sauces he did a mushroom demi and a citrus buerre blanc. equally deeeliiiisssh.
i decided i wanted to do filled pastas for sunday dinner today! i have made pasta before but it was just fettuccine. today i made both ravioli and tortellini filled with chicken, spinich, and cheese. topped with a garlic and cheese bechemel sauce. it was super super tasty!
and super time consuming.
like, you don't even want to know.
but, thats what you get for it being all homemade!
i started out by rolling the dough through the pasta machine several times to get it super thin. then i cut circles with a cookie cutter.
then in filled each of those circles with my chicken and spinich filling.
then i would either make them into ravioli..
or tortellini.
even though i spent so much time doing it, i had so much fun.
pasta dough recipe HERE.
filling recipe HERE.
and if you make to borrow my pasta maker any time... i'd be happy to loan it out. or even make pasta with you. i love pasta because it's so verstatile. i learned that you can pretty much put anything you want into a filled pasta. i think i will try a sweet potato filling sometime!
anyways.. now that i am digested-- i'm going to have some fondue.
i love my life.
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