Posted on 03/20/2017 12:57:27 PM PDT by heterosupremacist
You’re really disciplined. I find that great.
:) we are a lot better off for it. However, there are times when it is tough.
:) we are a lot better off for it. However, there are times when it is tough.
Learning to make homemade pasta (including ravioli) joined my “bucket list” last year. I bought an Atlas Pasta Machine which hand cranks out the pasta sheets for lasagna, and has cutting attachments for fettucini and spaghetti. I also bought a ravioli mold. I’m not an Italian grandma, but I pretend I am when I make it up fresh. I do whatever filling sounds good, from cheese to sausage and spinach, to pumpkin. I use the preserved heirloom tomatoes from last years garden for most of the sauces. The pasta dough is easy enough, about 2/3 cups flour and an egg (a little drop of olive oil if you want) per person. I salt mine in the boiling water because salt can’t go into the rolling machine. I love pasta, and store-bought can’t even come close to home-made.
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