Friday, August 7, 2009

homemade goat cheese ravioli with vodka sauce

last night i made this dish for dinner with my boo. deeelicious. i've made it a few times before, but never quite this good since i learned from my past mistakes.

i started with this recipe from epicurious. instead of bell peppers and brown butter, i used vodka sauce. rao's vodka sauce. sifted to remove all the tomato chunks. i also didn't include any of the herbs in the cheese mixture. mostly because larissa told me not to, but also because i didn't have any.

i used wonton wrappers purchased at whole foods wrapped like the recipe suggests. a key step in this recipe is carefully closing up the raviolis to make sure there is no air stuck in them. air inside makes them float to the top when boiling and also creates holes and water gets in them. yuck. (although not too "yuck". there's still goat cheese in there...)

another key was using one of those spoons with the holes in them. the ravioli are too delicate to just dump in a strainer after boiling, so pulling each one out individually without extra water keeps them in tact and not too watery.

anyway, this was easy AND fancy. perfect! all both of you should try this recipe sometime. sorry i forgot to take photos!

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