Can’t Beet these Raviolis

Braised Beet Greens and roasted beets

Dressed for Success

We are harvesting beets left and right, fresh beet green salads, pickled beets, and, a particular favorite, braised beet greens and roasted beets as sauce for raviolis from the freezer. This dinner wiped us out, some ricotta and goat cheese raviolis and some braised beef back rib raviolis. Good Stuff!

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Raviolios Redux

Rib meat, L, and Ricotta, R

Cheese in rounds, and Meat in squares, easy ID

We make the raviolis in large batches and fill the freezer. Braised beef back ribs, cheap, meaty, and flavorful. Wilted farm fresh spinach mixed into both the meat mix and the ricotta mix. Good Stuff!

Let them dry for an hour before freezing or cooking.

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Lamb and Ramp Ravioli

Braised lamb shoulder steaks and sauteed ramps. We bind with the dregs from the cheese drawer, a 1/4 disc of boucheron, the crust from the Humboldt fog, some shredded truffled sottoncere. Favorite pasta recipe will do, did you know you can make pasta dough in your bread machine? Good Stuff!

Different stages of assembly.

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Braised Short Rib and Cardoon Ravioli

Add diced cardoon to your mirepoix. When working with cardoon, it must be scraped or peeled, and stored in acidulated water until cooked.

The cardoon brings a pleasant earthiness to the braised beef. Once the meat is braised, cool well, pull the meat, with fork or by hand. Mix with some bread crumb, salt, pepper, parsley, oregano, sage,… Add the braising liquor if more moisture is needed. If too moist, add an egg.

semolina egg olive oil salt and water

stuff fold wet and crimp with a fork

dry for 45 minutes before cook for 5

The pasta machine pays for itself over and over… Stretch, cut with a biscuit cutter and save all the scraps for…

fettucine from the scraps

Good Stuff!

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