Ravioli of Choice - Meat or Cheese

[debodun]

Either or neither.

 

[CallMeKate]

Cheese. But I have it like once a year, and frozen or fresh with my own sauce, not canned. How 'bout you, Deb? Meat or cheese?

 

[debodun]

Definitely cheese, or cheese blend. I usually buy frozen, boil, then season with salt, pepper, garlic powder a little olive oil - no red sauce. Once in a great while I fry some.

 

[Nathan]

Both, thanks.

 

[Pepper]

Prefer meat. Will eat cheese too.

 

[hearlady]

Prefer cheese. Will eat meat too.

 

[Pinky]

Both, please!

 

[dilettante]

Bit into some and found spinach once. But with the great meat sauce on it I was not deterred.

 

[hawkdon]

nope....

 

[OldFeller]

My grandmother was from a small village in Italy. She made homemade cheese ravioli with tomato gravy. She also put cheese in her meatballs.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Cheese but I pay for it later

 

[bowmore]

Retired, with just the 2 of us, we get Stouffer's Meat Lover's ravioli and it suits us fine with no work.

 

[Pappy]

Prefer with cheese and red sauce and ground hamberger.

 

[oldman]

Meat only with homemade sauce. There’s an Italian restaurant in NYC in Little Italy named Da Nico. Best Italian food in NYC. The first time our friends took us there, it was an awesome experience. I asked for Ravioli, but they only offered cheese, so I ordered a dish with Rigatoni, shrimp, mushrooms served with or without a light tomato sauce. There’s no doubt about it. Italians can cook.

The manager came to our table and apologized for not having Ravioli with only stuffed with meat. He told me my meal was no charge, but I insisted on paying. He gave me his card and told me if I call ahead on my next visit and pre ordered the meat Ravioli, he would prepare it himself. I stood up and shook his hand and told him “Grazie.” He asked me in Italian if I speak the language and I told him “Alcuni.”
I took 2 years of Latin in High School, which was about as exciting as watching paint dry.

I had learned some Italian from my former neighbors who taught me several words, but not sentences.

 

[Lethe200]

I prefer meat. A Ligurian restaurant near us serves the most marvelous ravioli in brown butter, filled with oxtail meat. Yum!

The other filling I prefer is polenta. I always thought that was the oddest combination, but a marvelous Northern Italian place opened up in town several years ago. The owner/chef is from Bergamo (near Milan) and makes a wonderful pasta dough with extra egg yolks, so it's extra-supple and flavorful. I tried his Tortelli Di Polenta Timo E Coniglio: Egg pasta stuffed with polenta taragna, rabbit sugo, thyme, Grana Padano D.O.P. - and was in love! Even my meat-loving spouse thought it was sensational.

Polenta taragna is a mix of polenta, butter, and cheese. Needless to say, the quality of polenta is critical - true flint corn, preferably stone-ground. Anson Mills is one of the best domestic polentas we've found, but there are a few others still in business.

 

[hollydolly]

I don't have it much but when I do I prefer to have Porcini Mushroom Ravioli...

 

[Gary O']

Both, thanks.

Yup
Stuff those pockets with a good meat and mozzarella

 

[RadishRose]

Cheese, next would be mushroom.
Either tomato sauce or browned butter and sage.

 

[Gemma]

I like both meat and cheese, even the mushroom ravioli with a little red sauce on them. But my favorites are Lobster ravioli and Butternut squash ravioli that I make a brown butter sauce to top it.

 

[LoveTulips]

Only when dining out or ordering in, with cheese.

 

[Murrmurr]

Meat!