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Homemade butternut squash ravioli with a filling of roasted squash cubes, brown butter, ricotta, Parmigiano, and toasted cinnamon breadcrumbs — finished in a crispy sage brown butter sauce. A special-occasion pasta worth every minute.
Fresh pasta dough is one of those kitchen skills that sounds harder than it is and pays you back every time you use it. Flour, eggs, olive oil, salt — that’s the whole ingredient list. Ten minutes of kneading, thirty minutes of resting, and you have a smooth, silky dough that rolls into beautiful sheets and seals cleanly around whatever filling you put inside it. This is the companion recipe to the Butternut Squash Ravioli with Sage Brown Butter Sauce, and the foundational pasta dough post for every filled pasta recipe on Recipe Remodeler. Learn it once and you’ll reach for it for the rest of your cooking life.
Some of our best weeknight dinners start with an empty spot in the freezer. We skipped the frozen vegetable bag this time and built this stir-fry from scratch — fresh broccoli, asparagus, zucchini, red pepper, celery, onion, and a handful of frozen peas — with a sauce made from six pantry staples we already had on the shelf. The result is deeply savory, glossy, and just a little spicy, with toasted sesame seeds and fresh green onion finishing it off. Better than takeout, on the table in 35 minutes, and easy enough for any weeknight.
A nostalgic pineapple upside down cake made in a cast iron skillet — upgraded with brown butter batter and bourbon caramel for a more balanced, sophisticated flavor. Includes a mini cast iron version for two.
I love carrot cake! Many years ago a friend that I worked with at the time shared a carrot cake recipe with me with a warning. He said “once you make this recipe it will ruin all other carrot cakes for you. You will never …
Recently a friend of our sent us a box of Heritage Scottish shortbread cookies. We absolutely loved them! We loved them so much that we had to figure out how to make them ourselves. It turns out that traditional Scottish shortbread cookies have only 3 …
Before I start let me warn you that these pumpkin mini-muffins are super addicting. There is no eating just one. It’s a good thing we usually only make these in Autumn. You have been warned! A friend of mine made these to bring into work. …
These Italian ricotta cookies are from an old family recipe. My Aunt would probably kill me for sharing.
