Dan's Leftover Sweet Potato Gnocchi Ravioli with Spinach-Ricotta Filling

We need a new name.

Ingredients

• 1/2 batch leftover sweet potato gnocchi dough
  
• 5oz chopped frozen spinach
  
• 1/2 yellow onion, chopped
  
• 1/2 container Ricotta cheese (7/8 cups, technically)
  
• salt, pepper, garlic to taste
  
• the juice of 1/4 lemon
  

So this recipe has a lot of fractions because I didn't want to make too much filling for these ravioli. And it turned out to be almost exactly right.
Set out the dough to thaw. Mine was pretty cold. In the mean time, sautee the onion until translucent. Thaw the spinach in the microwave while the onion is cooking. When the onion is done, throw in the spinach and the salt, pepper, and garlic. Let it cook for another 5 minutes over medium-low heat. Take it off the heat and add the ricotta and the lemon juice. Stir to combine. Taste it! Add seasonings to fix whatever it needs.

Now the fun (difficult) part. On a well floured counter and with a well floured rolling pin, roll out (half) the dough to about 1/8" thick. Take a wide-rimmed glass (thinner rim the better) or a cookie cutter and start making dumpling wrappers. Pull away the scrap dough and set it aside (you roll this out again when you're done with this batch). Add filling to the center of each wrapper, and fold over to create a little dumpling. Press the seams closed with the tines of a fork. Roll out more dough. Repeat until you've used all the dough. Drop the ravioli into a pot of boiling water. 30 seconds after they start floating on the surface, scoop them out and toss with olive oil (quickly, before they start sticking together).

I served these with herb cream sauce (recipe to follow soon).

Thoughts: The filling was great for these "ravioli", but this was an IMMENSE amount of work. Including prep time, this project took like an hour and a half. If I do this again, I might consider buying a ravioli press.

Otherwise, delicious. Absolutely great. Not a disaster at all, even though I made up the recipe completely!

Disaster Index: 1/10