Recipe: Home Made Pasta

After seeing a link one morning on Twitter (thanks @journeywoman!) on how to make pasta, I decided to give it a try.  I had all the ingredients on hand (very few are needed!) and the kids were playing nicely.

The recipe can be found here. I did find that I needed more flour than the recipe called for.

In the end, we were really happy with the taste.  I ended up pairing it with a light garlic and cream sauce and shrimp.  I did find the dough heavy though, but I didn’t use the mixer and don’t have a pasta machine to flatten and cut. I did that all by hand.  Next time, I’ll use the mixer to knead and I think we’ll invest in a pasta machine (or better yet, the attachment for my Kitchenaid!)

The verdict: I’ll definitely try it again.  My husband was thrilled with it, as was I.  Also, next time, I think I will try it as a ravioli with a cheese and spinach filling maybe.

I rolled out the ball of dough with a rolling pin.  Then folded it and cut it. 

I unfolded the pieces and hung them to dry out for the afternoon on a clean plastic hanger.

After boiling them for a few minutes in water, I added the cooked noodles to my shrimp and sauce. Yum!