Homemade pasta
Jan 5th, 2008 by Jill
Homemade pasta drying on wooden hangers
Dried homemade pasta and grapes on the counter (photo by Gavin)
Jan 5th, 2008 by Jill
Homemade pasta drying on wooden hangers
Dried homemade pasta and grapes on the counter (photo by Gavin)
Was it horribly time-consuming? Decades ago, I gave my (long-deceased) Italian grandmother a pasta-maker that looked similar to the one in your sidebar…I don’t think she ever used it.
Nope! It’s no where near as intimidating as it might sound. It’s just cooking — like baking a cake or muffins or soup. It’s about that time consuming. So if you like cooking, it’s very much worth doing. I probably make about half the pasta we eat from scratch, just because it’s pleasurable to make and it tastes SO GOOD. It took me a couple of tries before I felt comfortable with it, but even the first batch I made was so much more delicious than pasta from the store. (Which we still eat, too. Because pasta = yum.)
wow! home-made pasta…you must be a good cook. I do all the cooking but never tried to make my own pasta…congratulations!