From top to bottom: Making the dough. Kneading the dough. Semi-drying the sheets before cutting. Drying the noodles. Nesting leftover noodles for freezing. All photos taken with my iPhone (and very floury hands).
I am instantly, deeply in love with the KitchenAid pasta-making attachments (and drying rack, and cookbook) I got from my parents for Christmas. Like the ice cream attachment before them, they are instant game-changers. Life-changers. I am an instant pasta snob.
(It's funny that I keep using the word "instant," because one of my favorite parts about making ice cream and pasta is the long, involved, multi-step process you have to go through each time. Tedium!: the Virgo in me almost craves it.)
Last night I made fettuccine, to be served with a decadent homemade alfredo, shrimp, mushrooms, and roasted Brussels for our anniversary dinner. Seeing these simple ingredients transform into something that not only looked and acted like the stuff I've been buying at stores my whole life, but tasted way better - was magical. I kept exclaiming to Micah, "I made these! They look so... real! I made these! Me!" inbetween stuffed mouthfuls. He put up with it like a champ – though the amazing, homemade, food-coma-inducing pasta probably helped. Homemade. By ME.
Love this so much! I'm a pasta junkie. Nothing is better than homemade pasta. NOTHIIIIING.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure I'd had fresh pasta until last night! Like I said, definitely a game-changer.
Deletegaaaah that is one thing that I am DYING to try, but I feel like I'll eat so much and get so hooked that you'll find me in a pasta-induced coma, covered in sauce and passed out on the floor.
ReplyDeleteAh, that's another thing I... appreciate about making my own ice cream (and pasta). There's something about the time and effort involved, that just make me practice a little more restraint when eating them.
DeleteAlso, knowing what EXACTLY goes into my stuff makes it somehow more healthy than store-bought mystery pasta/ice cream.
So, between those two points, I come to the conclusion that... homemade ice cream and pasta are probably the two BEST foods you can possibly indulge in. All the time.
Yes?
Total pasta snob too. I ONLY eat homemade pasta, which is like twice a year, because it takes so long! That sounds like a perfect meal to celebrate an anniversary.
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