There is that rare magical day where the that one kitchen gadget that you have finally decided to buy for yourself actually gets sent to you for free.

There were a lot of big kitchen gadgets that I never bothered to register for when we got married. I knew we didn’t have the space for a lot of stuff in our apartment and having little to no cooking experience I didn’t really know one thing from the other. So I decided that I would get some experience under my belt and when it was time for us to move into our big shiny new house I would buy all the things I was missing.

I never really thought a food processor was all that necessary. My mom didn’t have one and she made amazing meals, so was it really something I needed? After watching several thousand hours of the Food Network and attempting to make certain meals myself, I realized that it was a tool that I definitely needed to add to my kitchen. So off I went to do research.

If there is one thing you need to know about me it is that I go big or I go home. It doesn’t matter what I am buying I want the biggest and the best of what you have, especially when it comes to my kitchen. Sometime it is over kill and sometimes it is just right.

I started to see commercials on the Food Network for the new KitchenAid 13 cup Food Processor. I watched almost possessed as they demonstrated all the different features that it could do. I compared it to other food processors on the market and was sold that this was the one I needed.

I harassed Chad about it for two days straight until I woke up one morning to an email offering me the opportunity to test out the features of the new KitchenAid 13 cup Food Processor. Umm, what? Did this just happen!? Stuff like this NEVER happens to me.

A couple of weeks ago it arrives, in all it’s glorious beauty.

This puppy can puree, chop, knead, shred, and slice with its 3 blades and 2 discs. It has an externally adjustable, stainless steel slicing disc that lets you adjust the slicing styles for all types of food. It has a large 13 cup bowl as well as a smaller one that fits inside of it for smaller jobs. It is the most gorgeous piece of kitchen equipment I now own, next to my KitchenAid Stand Mixer, of course.

I haven’t had much time to play around with it, but this weekend I took the opportunity to try my hand at making fresh pasta dough and ravioli. Yes, I know, kinda weird that I chose to make dough with something that is so good at slicing and dicing, but this is the way that Lidia does it and she is my Italian Food Muse.

I used the dough blade and mixed up my flour, egg, oil, and water. The dough was a bit wet so I pulled it out and kneaded in some flour my hand.

Now, I didn’t really think this whole process through. Nonna has a pasta maker, but we don’t, and while I should have gone over and borrowed hers, I figured we could just do it by hand. I mean that is the way Lidia perfers to do it. Yea, that didn’t work out so well. The dough looks pretty thin in this picture but as soon as I cut out the shapes it was like the dough scrunched up and doubled in size.

Yea, they look like hockey pucks haha!

I stuffed them with Brie cheese and a couple with roasted tomatoes for my brother who doesn’t eat cheese. I know, don’t ask.

As for the sauce I made a brown butter and sage sauce. It was so amazing I will have to post the recipe on here.

The ravioli took forever to cook. The thickness of the pasta really kind of screwed me over, but you live and learn!

Over all the flavors were amazing. Melty yummy brie inside with a butter and sage sauce on the outside, all wrapped together with home made pasta dough. The flavors were a huge success, the dough, not so much.

Mom and I did a bunch of research and we agreed that I need to get the pasta making attachment for my KitchenAid Stand Mixer. I plan on making a lot of fresh dough, and with out a pasta maker we are just going to by eating huge clumps of it!

Now I have to plan my next dinner using my KitchenAid Food Processor!