Smoked Salmon Ravioli in Lemon Cream Sauce

I got a little distracted this week! I made this on Tuesday night, and it was delicious! There are really 2 ways to make it...first you can make the ravioli yourself, which is outlined below, or you can buy pre-made smoked-salmon ravioli from Costco, which is what we actually did :-) It was delicious!

Smoked Salmon Ravioli:

2 1/2 cups flour
1/3 cup water
2 eggs
1 egg yolk
1 tbsp. olive oil
1 tsp. salt
2 packages of smoked salmon broken into flakes
2 cups ricotta cheese
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese

In a medium bowl, mix together smoked salmon, ricotta, and Parmesan--set aside. In a large bowl, combine 1 cup flour and rest of ingredients with mixer on low speed. Mix about 2 minutes with spoon; stir in enough flour to make a soft dough; knead about 20 times until smooth and not sticky, adding more flour is necessary. Once the dough is ready, roll it flat with a well-floured rolling pin or pasta press if you have one. Use a round cookie cutter to cut circles into the pasta dough. Place 1-2 tablespoons of salmon/cheese mixture in the center of the circle (amount of stuffing will depend on the size of the circles). Fold the pasta over, making a half-circle, pinching the pasta closed. Cook raviolis in boiling water until done.

Lemon Cream Sauce w/ Mushrooms and Asparagus

2 cups whipping cream (reduced fat if you can find it)
4 oz cream cheese, cubed
1/2 cup diced onion
1 cup sliced baby portobello mushrooms
2 cups asparagus stalks cut into bite-sized pieces
1 tsp. Tabasco sauce
2 tbsp. lemon juice

In a small skillet, saute mushrooms and asparagus in olive oil until cooked, then remove from heat and set aside. In a medium to large skillet, saute diced onion (hint: If you're like me and despise cutting onions, when you have a recipe that only calls for a portion of the onion, dice the whole thing and put whatever you don't use in a freezer-proof Ziploc bag and freeze). Once the onion begins to cook, add the Tabasco sauce and cream cheese. Stir until the cream cheese melts. Then add the whipping cream and lemon juice. Continue stirring until thoroughly heated. Add the mushrooms and asparagus and reduce heat to low.

Once the ravioli is ready, pour the cream sauce over the top and add additional Parmesan cheese if desired.

It's very rich!!