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NATIONAL RAVIOLI DAY
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Although there were several other choices, for this Italian raised lad, it was a no brainer.
NATIONAL RAVIOLI DAY
March 20th celebrates a fun-filled and versatile pasta. National Ravioli Day is a food holiday for pasta lovers! So pick your favorite filling and sauce and cook up a meal everyone will love!
Ravioli are a traditional Italian-filled pasta. Pasta makers fill two layers of thin egg pasta dough with various ingredients. Imagine a small meatball tucked, snug inside two cozy layers of delicious dough. That’s what ravioli is. Some of the fillings include, cheese, meat, vegetables and seasonings. They also usually serve the ravioli in either a broth or with a pasta sauce.
While ravioli often serves as the main course, it can also be a side dish or appetizer. Many popular recipes bake or deep fry the ravioli. The dish also quickly becomes a dessert with chocolate added to the pasta or cream cheese stuffing and a caramel sauce!
Ravioli can be homemade or purchased fresh or frozen in grocery stores. In the United States, Chef Boyardee popularized canned ravioli. This ravioli is filled with beef or processed cheese and served in a tomato, tomato-meat, or tomato-cheese sauce.
But what about toasted ravioli? Where does this delicious creation come from? Well, we turn to St. Louis, Missouri, for the answer. In the 1940s at Oldani’s, a cook accidentally dropped a ravioli into the fryer. And what a delicious accident this ravioli became! The crisp ravioli earned a place on the menu. Or so the story goes. If so, we think it is a tasty one.
HOW TO OBSERVE #NationalRavioliDay
- Mix up your favorite sauce and pasta combinations.
- Try your hand at homemade.
- Invite family and friends to enjoy a ravioli meal with you.
- As usual, we found some delicious recipes, too! Give them a try and share your own, too.
My favorite, cooked by my Italian immigrant grandmom (Nona) with whom we lived until I went away to college was ravioli stuffed with spinach and cheese. Mmmmm. Do you have a favorite?
Comments
Poptarts are ravioli
The Last Resort serves fantastic ravioli. I've never tried cream cheese and spinach. Now I've got to try it.
While in college I regularly ate canned ravioli bc it was inexpensive and quick.
This kinda turned me against ravioli until later in life when a friend invited me for dinner. She prepared a spinach and feta ravioli that was amazing.
I love to cook, but admit Italian food and especially ravioli is a bit out of my wheelhouse. Yet, since my friend introduced me to her ravioli, I will often try it at an Italian restaurant when it’s an option.
Funny thing, I love some good ravioli, but every now and then.....
I do this from childhood memories. Both parents worked and when I got hungry. A slice of loaf bread to sop up the leftovers.
I used to love this until it was my last meal before going into labor with my first son. Can't stand to open a can 37 years later.
😂 absolutely, the ol boyardee chef has filled my belly many nights! And I was very happy to have it. Same goes with ramen noodles. I don’t really want to eat them today, but I have enjoyed them often in the past.
For me, it was Spam in a can. Many times a lifesaver, but now?…..no way!
fried spam though
Of course! Couldn’t eat it any other way.
My wife was sick over the weekend, and we didn't get to celebrate my birthday last Thursday night, so she told me to go to Provino's with our daughters.
We had a wonderful meal...I know it wouldn't pass as "great Italian", but we love the atmosphere and the food is good to us.
Our middle daughter got the chicken ravioli...I've never noticed on the menu.
I got my old standby...spinach tortellini Florentine! So good and comforting!
Then came home for cake and ice cream.
The only thing that was missing was a good movie in surround sound...maybe some other night!
I wanna watch "Dune" while it's on HBOMax for free...