The Princess makes pasta
11 years ago
OK, so we broke my last pasta machine. It was a cheap one from Bed, Bath and Beyond which just fell apart and so I broke down and bought a good one, an Atlas. Not top of the line, but a lot better than BB&B!
I also bought a ravioli "press".....
The Princess went to work making the pasta dough. I finally told her she's gonna have to get in there with her hands to mix it well enough, so she did.
We ran the dough through the pasta machine on "0" a couple of times, then started making it thinner. We got to "6" before she decided it was thin enough and put it onto the press. Half was filled with ricotta and the other half with a mix of ricotta and roasted cherry tomatoes with onion, garlic and basil. Yummy by itself and yummy in ravioli!
Making pasta is messy business, but the pasta dough is well floured and didn't stick in the rollers, LOL. And close my cupboard doors. Sheesh.
Roll over the form and it cuts and seals the ravioli, then just cut them apart and you're good to go, or at least good enough to let them dry a little before cooking.
Somehow, I didn't get a picture of the ravioli after it was cooked, but it all got eaten promptly. I even made sauce, and I'm not Italian at all, but I had fresh tomatoes and fresh basil and fresh garlic and it turned out OK. At least everyone ate it except the Princess and I, who had our pasta with a sprinkle of parmesan and a little butter because she doesn't like sauce either. We had fresh green beans from the garden, pasta, garlic bread, meatballs. Nope, no pictures of that either, but you can see a purple bowl on the counter in one of those pictures, that is the meat mixture for Mama's Meatballs, which I made while the Princess was making ravioli.
I wonder what she'll want to make next, she thinks I have the best kitchen "toys" and she wants to use 'em all!
Annie
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Comments (6)The nchfp recommendation is 2 Tablespoons of lemon juice per quart. So right there you haven't acidified enough. Also, something with this many low acid ingredients would typically be a pressure canning recipe, Did you use a specific recipe? I hate to say it, but I would dump the jars....See Moresecret to make ahead pasta casserole?
Comments (3)Make sure the pasta is very al denté when you add it to the other ingredients, that way the liquid it will absorb while sitting won't harm it much. You also might need to add a bit more liquid the next day before baking....See MoreKAW - my 13 year old makes homemade pasta
Comments (14)True, Debrak! Even within the cult of drawers there are doctrinal differences. I will encourage my children to be flexible and open-minded since we are in the "bullet-proof" counters denomination but accepting of "patina"-ists. And maybe, with time, and beautiful, well nurtured grandchildren involved, I could be respectful of an alternative flooring lifestyle....See MoreMaking Your Own Pasta
Comments (14)When I was a little kid on the farm my Grandmother used to make home made egg noodles. She would send one of us boys to the hen house to get the eggs, and one of the other boys had to get her clothes line and stretch it from two hooks on opposite sides of her huge kitchen. She then set up her breadboard and began mixing rolling and cutting the noodles. When she had them cut she would take ordinary wire coat hangers and fold a piece of butcher paper over the bottom wire, then hang the noodles on the coat hanger and hang that on the clothes line near the ceiling. She had an old coal stove so it was always warm to moderately hot near the ceiling, even in mid winter when it was zero outside. When the noodles were dry she would put them in two or three wide mouth 2gallon glass jars and tuck them in the pantry. She also used that same line to dry herbs or fruit. I can remember her sitting for hours peeling and slicing apples, which she then slipped on wire hooks she had made from old coat hangers and hung them on the line. After all the fresh apples in the root cellar began getting a bit mushy she would use those dried apples to make pies, cakes and struedles....See More- 11 years ago
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