Dough Ingredients:
5 cups flour
4 eggs
1/8 teaspoon salt
warm water as needed
Filling Ingredients:
1 small or medium yellow onion
2 lbs. ricotta cheese
1 cup cooked chopped spinach
2 cups mozzarella cheese
1/2 cup Romano cheese
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
Instructions:
1. Chop onion and saute until just browned.
2. Combine onion with cheeses, egg, and nutmeg and mix together evenly. Set aside.
3. Combine flour, eggs, and salt in large bowl. Add warm water as necessary and knead together until smooth.
4. Cut dough into 5 or 6 pieces. Roll one piece of dough until it is less than 1/4 inch thick.*
5. Spread the ravioli filling in a thin even layer on half of the dough. 
6. Fold the other half of the dough on top of the filling and press lightly.
7. Using a ravioli rolling pin, press down hard on one end of the dough and roll across slowly. This pushes the filling into the square areas and seals the dough together.
8. Use a pastry wheel to cut along the lines made by the ravioli rolling pin. 
9. Separate raviolis. You may freeze them for later use, or boil them to eat immediately.
10. Boil ravioli for approximately 5 minutes. (My grandma says once the ravioli float to the top, let them boil for 2 more minutes.)
11. Top with sauce and sprinkle with Romano or Parmesan cheese and serve.
*Be sure to use a lot of flour on your flat surface, the dough, and the rolling pin so that it doesn't stick!
After a long recipe hiatus, I'm finally posting again. I've been at my grandma's house all summer, and I've been spoiled by her making me dinner for me these past few months, so I haven't been doing much of my own cooking. But today I convinced my grandma to teach me how to make ravioli. I asked her if her mother taught her to make ravioli, but she said no, her mother never made ravioli or lasagna. My grandma isn't sure where she learned to make ravioli, she said maybe one of her sister-in-laws taught her. Wherever the recipe came from, my grandma has now passed it on to both my mother and me. My mom has a video from the early 1990s of the two of them making batch after batch of ravioli for our family's Easter dinner. Today my grandma and I recorded a video too. I haven't watched it yet, but if it seems like it would be interesting I may post it as well.
I think the best way to end this post is with a final picture; this is a scan of the two recipes we followed today, in my grandma's handwriting.
