THE LOST RAVIOLI RECIPES OF HOBOKEN

[jdischiano]

Thank you for posting. How can I get the recipe for this?

[rachelcitrino]

I have the same rolling pin that my grandmother used. Just finished reading COOKING WITH ITALIAN GRANDMOTHERS and now can't wait to see your book!!! BTW my family called the rolling pin a bastuna. The first time I stretched and flaped I was 11 years old. I don't do it frequently but for Thanksgiving...RAVIOLI!

[tmpnash]

I simply adored your book & love this video! Thank you for both. I made the dough from your book with the ricotta & spinach filling and it was delicious. I made it for my family and did an experiment. I did one batch on the pasta machine & rolled the other batch out with the rolling pin. You really can taste and feel the difference. Your video helped a lot!

[aaaaa60609]

this video is so wonderful, reminiscent of my grandmother making pasta, thank you for bringing back wonderful memories for me... I was her shadow at a ripe age of 3 and learned so much by the time I was 11 when she passed on ....

[eddegoei]

Roll the pasta sheet on the pin, turn 90 degrees and unroll like you do at around 6 min. Saves you smoothin it every time, but complimenti bella.

[jangalexis360]

great video . question the roller she used to square the ravioli what is that called?, and where can i get one?

[angieyoda]

This is amazing! Thanks you for sharing this. I didn't see your book yet but I will look for it. I have never tried to attempt to make any sort of pasta ever but I would love to try though. So I was searching for the right recipe and stumbled across this. Thank you very much and what a great story!

[bros534]

she is hot wish i was the dough

[KillinDaWelfareMCs]

How can I meet this woman. I want to marry her.

[human596]

can you give the recipe to the cheese and spinach filling?

[parkfifthgirl]

I love this video.  What a cool journey!!!

[broncobob2000]

KNOW THATS A ROLLING PIN ...

[jmugrad1]

Gosh you talk so much; thus, forget to do the most important thing. PROVIDE THE RECIPE!!!

[orphngv]

thats the sexiest egg beating ive seen....

[Moongalz]

id like to try this too!!!

[lypitz88]

You inspired me! I started your book on Friday, found an Atlas pasta macine on Craigslist on Saturday, ended up in an Italian deli last night in Scottsdale with my husband for delicious ravioli, and will be attempting my first batch tonight! Thanks for a great weekend!

[Food4life2000]

WOW your ravioli making is AWESOME and your story is really interesting IN A GREAT WAY THOUGH! You are really lucky to come from a cool family. :)

[mikdagg571]

Sterry1, I love the way you articulated and simplified the recipe. Your passion for this recipe motivated me to make my first Ravioli batch.. Bravo!!!

[sexyspiceboy02]

I'm 26 spending a lot of time with my grandmother learning how to can and hearing stories that she had with her grandmother learning how to cook. This was an awesome video..and an awesome story. I'm so happy that you were able to learn how to do this as it looks awesome. It's my one of my next cooking tries as we just canned a bunch of pasta sauce so now I'm in the Italian mood. What a great video!

[Leitner1969]

What a beautiful woman!!! Not just physically but spiritually.

[jmugrad1]

@Leitner1969

Wow you are an idiot

[ethankegley]

great story, and the tool at the end, the rolling pin with the squares, my gosh, I need one... I roll my pasta out by hand and then cut and stuff individual squares... with a helper stuffing we can do enough food for two-three in about 15 minutes including making the dough, kneeding, stuffing pressing the edges and trimming the outside. But she did enough for 4 people in ten minutes with that amazing tool... so cool

[projectdalpha]

how long do i have to massage that dough???

[coro35]

Very good. I am currently having an enthusiasm for making pasta (even have a ravioli attachment for my machine...it works well but I think I decided that it's probably easier and better to do it manually)

What you and your commenters observe about culture and this wonderful food is so true. It is culture, family and love.

In our family we also have a vegetarian (16 year old) and ravioli is such a good thing to make.

Keep on going.

[11kayaking]

I can't find this stick rolling pin. I have the machine but this is better for ravioli.

anyone know where I can get one this long. All of them are 20" or shorter  heydoggie@verizon.net

[soulloka]

U know honey. When u "carry on" some family thing like this recipe to your sons, u are not only keeping a tradition. it is like keeping the essence of the most powerful of all the intinctive human attributes: the clanic affection. In small words, it is like a way to show that u are part of humanity. I sort of understand ya, my family also have some sort of unique recipe wich is some sort of boulangerie cream, wich is pretty sweet. Whenever i do it, i feel so special. Special...

[boobtuber06]

what kind of sauce would they traditionally finish off raviloi with?

Was it the sauteed butter and sage?

[tzipporah5000]

Oh Laura! This is perfect! I had asked for a ravioli pin for my birthday and my daughters bought me one from Amazon. I have wanted to learn how to do this for a long time and found your video!. I've bookmarked and will study it so I can learn from you! Thanks for passing this on....Deb

[Adri992000]

Inspiring. Thanks! I will watch this over and over until i can do it like you

[TheBeautystuff]

This was the technique is amazing. I love to hear about those family stories. Lovely!

[dnycguy7]

you are adorable. i'm going to look for your book. THANKS TO WHOMEVER POSTED THIS!!

[sterrry1]

@dnycguy7 yer welcome!

[colorcasserole]

beautiful!

[00Ahdia00]

Wonderful story, thank you for sharing it.

[kern0099]

Thank you for this vid, you really are a great story teller! Loved it, I can see why you won the James Beard...

[MsKibznBitz]

I loved your story and the history of your family. I hope at least one of your sons finds the love you have in the kitchen.

Thank you for sharing.

[TheBanditizer]

great story! enjoyed the vid.

[imthefrogman]

VERY NICE VIDEO  . thank you so much

[JerryF1]

Oh nice story telling and definately a cute Italian woman..mmm but the filling process like that was cheating really.. it was americanised a little too much..

i was hoping to see more on the final results too.. try again!

[xxmcneilxx]

Chuck Norris doesn't believe in ravioli. He stuffs a live turtle with beef and smothers it in pig's blood

[deeno]

Beautiful memoir, and wonderful technique. Not so finicky as some recipes!

[Shivsterxxx]

YOU NEVER EVEN MADE THE RAVIOLI !!!

[Benzenering1004]

Awesome technique. I will definitely learn this the day I get a wooden counter large enough. Thanks for the share!

[ValerieAdams]

Now I feel confident that I was on the right track and I'm sure our dinner tonight will be great. Everything you said resonates with me today as I feel my mom and grandma watching over me. Thank you so much for posting!

[ValerieAdams]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I grew up watching my mom and grandma make ravioli every Christmas. Later, my mom and I carried on the tradition. For the past several years, there haven't been any as my mom was ill. She passed away two years ago and today I am making ravioli alone for the first time. I've got my grandmother's recipes and the dough is resting. I've got her pin and everything else I need but was hazy on the actual assembly.

[SuperTrashboy]

I just wanted to tell you that I was very impressed. Being of 100% Italian Decent, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw how you were rolling out the dough. My family has been making ravioli like this as far back as I can remember. I'm 44 now and have just started learning from my father. My family also comes from Genoa region. I have taken the time to learn so I can keep it going. I love your story.

[Ragnarock83]

just wow :)

i use a paste machine to roleout the paste.

but for the filling i use a spoon. and to cut the ravioli i use a knife and a fork ^^

i need a ravioli pin or how is it called? :)

[dgourmet]

Outstanding memoir and fascinating demonstration of the technique which has long mystified me, i.e. how to make great, thin pasta dough with a rolling pin. Thank you, Laura!

[dubbedcrazy]

Marry Wanna ? *_*

[me1570]

the recipes im hoping are in the book displayed right at the beginning of the video, i found it on amazon for the UK, dont know about anywhere else.

[northwing180]

@me1570 i got my copy at Borders online. barnes and noble and amazon us had copies also. a quick flip thru and there are recipes in it.

[jenbayjazz]

Would you kindly let us know what kind of flour mixture you used, or should I say your grandma's flour mixture? ! I have heard #1 Semolina Duram Wheat? I have also read mixing all purpose flour with Semolina. I really enjoyed your story.

[me1570]

@jenbayjazz I would also like to know the answer to this.. also what were the quantity's are for how many people etc

[Ericson578]

wonderful story! This video really inspired me to learn some more family recipes.

[checkboard]

Lovely presentation - and unique in the online world in that you didn't use a pasta rolling machine - it's a slight shame you didn't use the older square mould instead of the more modern checkered rolling pin as well!

[bethanjmc]

I don't care about your family history I want to know how to make the dam stuff. Not once did she explain what goes into it.

[debonojesmond]

nice family history

[thydarktiger]

You should have your own cooking show. You actually make food interesting other than just eating it :)

[Gr8fruit]

I love your video! Great story, culture, and ravioli! I need to get myself one of those long pins, ravioli roller, and that book! ;) Great job! <3

[MaxiBoOoY]

eating them now :P

[PFossil]

What fun to see this after reading your lovely book. I cherish memories of my grandmother making ravioli in St. Louis - she was Sicilian. I remember her stretching/ pulling and rolling the dough with I thought was a broom stick (I'm sure I was wrong). Every one was cut by hand, with a rotella. The one task I was allowed was to press the edges of each raviolo with a fork to seal them. She said the dough had to be "like linen." She weighed 85 lbs and put a lot of muscle into it! You rock!

[tradethatthing]

You are one cool woman! I've just started making my own pasta. I'm using a machine mainly, but I will definitely incorporate some of of the techniques so so generously shared after all your research. Nicely done!

[huckuba]

Hands down - The best pasta video I've seen. Thanks for the heartfelt mood, and damn good technique! If your sons don't get it - millions of other guys do! Except for the big Pin thingy!

[makitmama]

Your book changed my life. I am now journaling and writing recipes for my daughters, describing all the dishes made by my scottish immigrant grandmother in the deep south. Things like corn pone,pound cake,poke salad, fried chicken, etc.

Your book didn't make me want to cook italian, it articulated a feeling I didn't even realize I had about disappearing family traditions. My daughters demand the holiday family dishes, but these are not 'daily' food.

anyway, you wrote a book that touched me.

[homemademom1]

Oh My God!! I am a Spanish girl who grew up making Gravy with my sister and her mother in law

in a basement cranking the OLD PLUM tomatoes

& Jarring them ..whew its been years. Now with today's economy I decided to go back to making pasta from scratch. Well I watch your video and not only enjoyed it " But I had this guy from the hardware store cut me a rolling pin like that and WOW! WOW! I caught on very quickly tonight ..My Ravioli's were perfect! Thank you! I give you a 10 star rating...

[chubbadeen]

you were wonderful to watch an listen to, I only wish you made some type of sauce as well, which is why im on you tube today, Im trying to attempt to make it. I see you have written a book, Im going to go look for it somewhere, an buy it. When you were talking about traditions, I had the same notion, so I started looking for recipes, that i could work on an make it my own little thing. however ravioli tonight for my family!

[tmpnash]

Ciao Laura! Thank you so much for your wonderful book & video. I appreciate the fact that I was able to take your journey with you through your words. As someone who got in touch with her Italian heritage later in life, I can truly appreciate your story. My father was born in Italy but I was raised by my American mom. It wasn't until I spent more time with my Aunt & went to Italy that I desired the same thing - to keep my family's culinary traditions going! Grazie! Off to make ravioli!

[Valandil1979]

Hey, that was beautiful! Thans a lot :)

[AstridCC]

PS (feel free to delete as this does not relate directly to your video): this Ligurian friend gave me pesto made in a mortar by his mom, telling me a food processor overheats the basil; he said pasta machines are called "Nonna Paperas" in Italy, in reference to a character in Donald Duck comic strips? Finally he said rolling by hand, if you know what you're doing, is much faster than using a Nonna Papera, which surprised me. I guess the size of the sheets of dough makes the difference.

[JuggaloNarutard]

this is laura again. obviously writing from my son's youtube account. yes many genoese say that a mortar is best for pesto. I'd say that quality of ingredients and the skill of the cook. I have a friend there who tells me he'd rather have pesto made in a blender by a good cook than pesto made by hand by a bad one. As to pasta machines--i agree that a really skilled person i way more productive on a rolling pin than someone with a machine. best wishes and thanks for the comments. Laura

[AstridCC]

This is my 2nd comment: I just wanted to share with you the kind of interest your book elicits: I showed it to a friend who lives in Liguria, and whose ancestors all come from Liguria as well. He was very interested in your book (he is passionate about traditional Ligurian cuisine, and talks about opening a small trattoria). He doesn't read English very well but took a photo of the cover of your book to see if he can find it in Italian...

[JuggaloNarutard]

thank you so much Astrid. I appreciate this. The book is not translated into Italian. I really wonder if the italians would really understand this story of a Italian-American searching for her roots.

[dougules]

I actually think the recipe with the Americanized ingredients is interesting. I mean America is part of our history as much as Italy.

[whoiscraig]

You inspired me to make ravioli myself :D

Great video!

[jnimens]

Great !

This is exactly what I'm looking when prowling the net for cooking ideas. Thank you so much to Sterry! for preparing this. Keep it up !

[boytumbuling]

how do you make the dough?

[inkypaws]

Awesome, awesome video. My first attempt at ravioli really was horrible, but I'm determined to learn how to make good ravioli and I am letting some dough rest up right now. I hope some day I can make it without having to read a recipe! Also, I loved Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken. I am going to read 1,000 Years Over a Hot Stove as soon as I can.

[diddykongfu]

droools

[AstridCC]

Great to see this film after reading your book! As someone who can become very obsessed in cooking or baking experiments, despite the pressing demands of work, children and husband, and also as someone who often visits friends in a small town in Liguria (near Chiavari), I felt very close to your quest. Thank you for sharing!

[WideScreenFiend]

Interesting! i LOVE that rolling pin!!!!!!! I'm not buying a pasta machine, I will be rolling my dough out as well.

[dirosaga]

lol niceee, but ur story was too entertaining, now im gonna have to watch the whole thing again to learn how to make the ravioli haha. thanx alot though, i think il learn alot the second time to

[jjdvideo]

Very good.

Hopefully your sons learn this.

[squirrelydan]

Loved the book -- thanks for sharing your life and experiences so fearlessly on those pages.

I actually bought a ravioli form several years ago on eBay, the same week I bought a pasta machine. I used the machine a few times, but never got around to using the press. You've inspired me to dig both out of the pantry and get my kitchen covered in flour!

[mark7791135]

Thank you so much for this video.. It was amazing to see how much love you put into your food and how much effort you put into keeping a tradition alive.. You are amazing..

[maylien]

This was great. I enjoyed your journey. We made a video of my Nonna making raviolis in her 90's but someone misplaced it. Hopefully it will be found. My sister & I make the old way occasionally like you. Food traditions are the last to be lost.

[wtcope1966]

God bless you for making this video! I am on a similar quest to make my great, great grandmother's ravioli.

[GioiaBellaGioiaMia]

This is a wonderful video! Our Calabrese family has made ravioli for many generations but I have never seen the dough stuffing spread over the dough like that. By the grace of God, this is a tradition I would like to continue to pass down. Thanks for the encouragement!

[erickruse]

Excellent! Thank you! Enjoyed this very much as I attempt to make raviolis my self.