TIP OF THE DAY: Pillow Pasta

Butternut squash ravioli. Photo courtesy Pom Wonderful. Here’s the recipe.   When studying culinary history, you learn lots of fun food facts. For example, in the history of pasta, Marco Polo may have brought pasta back from China—but it wasn’t spaghetti or other “long cut” pasta, and it wasn’t “short cut” pasta like farfalle (bowties)…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Make Dumplings Or Ravioli From Thanksgiving Leftovers

If you still have Thanksgiving leftovers, this tip from Chef Johnny Gnall shows how to turn them into favorite comfort foods: dumplings or ravioli. If you have questions or suggestions for tips, email Chef Johnny. At Thanksgiving, just about every content source offers you a new take on what to do with leftovers. Here’s my…
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PRODUCT: Prima Pasta Ravioli, Striped For The Cure

Enjoy delicious ravioli as you contribute to breast cancer research. Photo courtesy Pasta Prima.   Ravioli (and its baked cousin, lasagne) is one of our Top 10* comfort foods, even though it isn’t on any published list we’ve seen.† While cheese ravioli can be bland, we never turn down butternut squash or pumpkin ravioli. (INSIDER…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Easy “Ravioli Lasagne”

Lazy Lasagna from Cucina Fresca, made with spinach ravioli. Photo courtesy Cucina Fresca. Last week we wrote about the pisagne, a pizza topped with lasagne ingredients. Colleen C. of Seattle wrote to remind us of “easy lasagne” made by layering ravioli instead of making lasagne from scratch. 1. PREHEAT oven to 400°F. 2. USE 3…
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