Making Pasta

I really need a drying rack

  There's nothing as good as a warm pasta dish made with homemade pasta. The ingredients are few so you can always have them on hand to make any variety of pasta.  I often experiment with different shapes and flavors, and they're always a rewarding surprise to my tastebuds.  An easy, no-fail, standard recipe is as follows:

My Pasta

1/2 cup white flour, 1/2 cup semolina flour, 1/2 cup water (or any liquid)

knead for ten minutes

let rest for 20 minutes, covered with plastic wrap

put through pasta machine as per instruction

dry for 1+ hour

cook in boiling, salted water for 3 min.

This recipe makes 4 servings; or 2 very-generous servings, with a little left over. 


You can switch out the water for vegetable broth or boullion.  I save and freeze the juice from my jars of canned veggies, or the juice left over in the food processor after dicing tomatoes or green peppers just for this purpose.  Potato water is especially good.

making pasta with daughter Abby

 


The pasta roller I would recommend is the Atlas.  It's easy to use, has good instructions and has several options for width and thickness of noodle.  I also use it for making uniquely-long breadstix. 

I'll be posting some of my favorite pasta sauces, salads and dishes in my recipe file soon.