We are making pasta! The combination of Jo here and us all feeling extremely ambitious lead to a unanimous decision to christen the Pasta Maker and try our hand at home made pasta!
I will say from the onset that Jo took control of the pasta making from start to finish, relegating me swiftly to the sink area in charge of 'dishes' and warming the pasta sauce (absolutely fine by me).
She found a recipe online but essentially pasta making is pretty 'easy', calling for just flour, egg and water; sounds straight forward to me....hahaha *grimace*.
OJ started by popping an egg into a bowl of flour and then mixing it all together and kneading the dough for '5' minutes. Darren nobly took over when Jo became fatigued and completely saved the day by going in hard-core and finishing off the kneading so the three balls were primed ready for the 'machine'.
Darren and Jo fed the dough into the pasta maker on the widest setting and started to roll it through. Once they had got through the first pass, we started again, feeding the pasta through the rollers, but this time on a slightly thinner setting.
I stepped in as the official 'pasta hanging device', an intrinsically important part of this entire process.
It was a total triumph! On first try, D was rendered speechless but after a bite or two and a long sigh he managed to quietly confirm 'it's awesome!'. The texture was incredible; so light and fresh. We cooked the pasta, quickly, in a large pot of boiling water and once it was ready, drained the water and with a scoop of the sauce, it was ready to go!
Here is Jo with her pasta ready for the feast! It was amazing and we have been talking about it ever since! Long life the pasta making adventures!
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