So I went on a kick of pasta making. After I was done I swore I'd never eat dry pasta again, but then I got tired and started working again and one thing led to another and one night I found myself cooking dry pasta from a packet. these things happen. While I was on my kick though I took some photos that are kinda fun.
To be fair , this was for a dinner party of four and was specifically cast as 'thank you' pasta and it was wonderful. It was a Sicilian recipe that literally involved:
2 eggs (room temp, ALWAYS room temp)
500g good flour (try that 00 stuff)
4 Tbls water
pinch of salt
You knead all that together to get a dough and then you knead it some more till it's elastic and yellow-y and pretty (about 10 minutes) then you wrap it in plastic and whack it in the fridge for 30 minutes. Then you just cut off sections and roll it through a pasta machine or roll it real nice and thin and cut it yourself.
OR you can make little sausages with it and then roll then over a skewer to make these little suckers
Which I was somewhat proud of but if I made again would make them thinner and more delicate. But they sure were pretty and tasty. You can do either with a nice tomato sauce or a creamy type thing, whichever you feel like.
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