Butternut Squash Ravioli

Finally I am knocking another item off my list - thanks in very large part to Scott! We had him and Christie over for dinner last night, and Scott provided the pasta maker attachment to the KitchenAid. This was a looooooooooong process, but luckily Scott also brought a little amuse bouche for us to have first ;) (except we each ate way more than one bite each, but whatever)

This was persimmons cooked with onions and some other things (all I remember Scott saying is grape juice) over cream cheese on bread - yum! It definitely hit the spot since all in all it took TWO AND A HALF HOURS from when Scott and Christie got there to when we ate. Since I need to eat approximately every 2 hours throughout the day, the appetizer was necessary.

I found this blog post for butternut squash ravioli on The Paupered Chef - he had a lot of great details, but it was kind of hard for me to know exactly what to do, especially with the actual making of the pasta - luckily Scott has done it a few times so he showed us the ropes.

yeah, that one got a bit long :) we used less dough per sheet after that

I took my turn making a sheet too - it seemed to work out ok :) Eventually we worked out a system where Scott made the sheets, I put the filling on and rubbed egg around to seal the edges, Scott put another sheet on and then I cut it out. Ben sometimes took over my role when my feet hurt too bad to stand any longer :)

A wine glass worked GREAT to make the raviolis!


Filling was tasty and used the HUGE butternut we got from the CSA


Teamwork!








Butter sage sauce, and then pan fried the raviolis a bit in the sauce


Final product, topped with parmesan - DELICIOUS!

This definitely took longer than I'd spend making a normal meal (mostly due to roasting the squash actually) but it was fun. I'd like to try out making just fettuccine noodles sometime to see how quickly that goes... maybe it is worth it to get the pasta maker attachment someday!