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Our quest to create ravioli's continues. In our first adventure we made everything from scratch. The results were not so good. We did learn a lot and making anything from scratch tends to take practice.

Our second attempt was a lot better. That time we didn't try to make the pasta ourselves. Instead we used store bought won-ton wrappers and the results were great.

With that in mind, Jenn decided to get a little creative on the fillings. We are eating healthier and on a trip to Trader Joe's she came across some chicken sausages. Personally the thought of chicken sausage didn't really sound appetizing to me but I was willing to give it a try. Also we picked up some sun dried tomatoes and fresh basil and she decided to make 2 different kinds of ravioli's. Here is a brief explanation of what we did to create the stuffing's:

Chicken Sausage and Mozzarella cheese

For these ravioli's, we removed the meat from the casing and then cooked it in a pan until it was firm and brown. Once we let the sausage cool we added some shredded mozzarella and presto, instant ravioli stuffing.

Mozzarella Cheese, Sun dried Tomatoes and Fresh Basil

What we did with the sun dried tomatoes was put them in a food processor until they were like a paste. For the fresh basil I just finely cut up the basil leaves. Add mozzarella and mix together. Important thing to note on this one is to add some salt to the mix for a little seasoning.

Really good stuff here and we had enough stuffing to make extra and freeze them for a day in which we didn't want to cook (which turned out to be yesterday). I helped stuff the raviolis and I was thinking that this would be a perfect recipe to make with kids because it is easy using the won-ton wrappers, it allows them to pick their own ingredients, and they get to get their hands dirty making it.