Home Made Ravioli

OK.. I will start off by saying I have never made ravioli before. I had some crab meat I picked from some crabs I boiled and wanted to try something different. I started looking for recipes and could not decide which one to use so I ended up making 4 different ones. Crazy I know, but they were not really that much work and I was kinda bored anyway. The old saying seafood and cheese don't mix is not always true but I find the raviloi with the chesse filling was not as good as the one with the bechamel sauce. Danny does not like crab too much and of course he did not really like the ones with the crab meat in them.
I used wonton wrappers for the pasta and it worked out great.
 Out of the 4..the plain cheese with the egg yolk and the crab bechamel were the best. The vodka cream sauce was so good and easy to make, I can't wait to buy some frozen raviolis from the store to try with the sauce.

I took 1 cup of ricotta cheese and 1 cup of goat cheese and mixed it with a lil salt, pepper and chopeed parsley.

I divided it in 1/2 and added 1 egg yolk to one bowl. Mario Batali had that in one of his recipes. I find the one with the egg yolk was better than the one with out, it made it creamier.

I added the about 1/2 cup of the crab meat to the one with out the egg yold. After it was cooked, it tasted OK but not as good as the one with the egg yolk and no crab meat.

The next one is kinda from a recipe from Gumbo Pages.com. They have some really good recipes on that web site. That's how we started doing out New Orleans BBQ Shrimp. We tried a few of the recipes from that site and have changed it over the years but it was a great way to learn to cook them.

In a pan, I added 1 TBS butter and 1 TBS of AP flour.

Let cook for a min but do not brown.

I then added about 3/4 cup of heavy cream and let cook for several mins over low fire.

Keep stiring till it gets very thick. I added a little salt and pepper.

In another pan, melt 1 TBS butter and add 2 chopped green onions and let cook.

I was busy and not watching it too good and burned it...LOL !! I had to do it again. I kept a closer eye on it this time.

I crushed up some town house crackers in a zip lock bag and added about 1/4 cup of them to the pan. Don't cook it, just mix it real good.

Mix the butter cracker and crab meat to the cream sauce and mix together.
To me....this one was the best ravioli. It was YUM !! When you broke into the ravioli, the creamy crab oozed out and mixed with the vodka sauce...OMG !! I will be making this again !!

I lined up some wonton sheets and put a lil filling in each one. Then I kinda mashed the filling down with my finger. I brushed with a lil beaten egg and put another wonton sheet on top. They say to make sure you get all the air out cause it will make the ravioli bust open when you boil them.
Because I had 4 different kinds. My Mom gave me a great idea on how to tell the differnce between all of them after they were cooke.
The 1 st batch of ravioli, I just made them and left them that way.
The 2 nd batch I made with a different filling,.I cut off one corner ot the ravioli.
The 3 rd batch with a differnt filling, I cut off 2 corners of the finished ravioli.
The 4 th batch with a different filling, I cut off 3 corners.
I worked out great until I forgot which order I made them..LOL
Glad I took a ton of photos so I could go back and remember which corner missing was from which filling.

I add them to salty boiling water. Everything in the ravioli was cooked so it just had to heat the filling up. Except the one with the egg yolk. When they floated to the top, they were ready. I was lucky cause none of them busted open. I was kinda proud of that...LOL.

Danny laughed cause I had so many different plates for him to taste. He liked the plain cheese and the cheese with the egg yolk the best. I loved the crab bechamel one the best. We both loved the vodka sauce too. The roasted pepper sauce was yummy too !!

It was fun making them. Now he wants me to get a pasta maker to try and make the home made pasta since he loved the sauce so much. At least he is trying new things to eat !!