Homemade Pasta | All Food, All Drinks, All Love

So, I finally did it: made my own pasta. I?m officially? just another person that made their own pasta! Maybe it?s just me, but making homemade pasta just seems a little more extraordinary than some other culinary creations. Just me? Okay, never mind. I enjoyed it, though. Plus, it?s really quite simple. Then again, I just love working with flour and dough!

Here I?ve got my four dough pieces rolled out into rectangles- well, they?re supposed to be anyway, but mine look more oblong than anything. Oh, it doesn?t matter? they taste just the same! (I even tasted a tiny tad of dough at this point? I had to make sure it was tasting good for the end product.) Then, just cut each one into strips about a quarter inch wide and hang ?em up like this.

Clothes hangers worked beautifully. Only, my pasta had broken at the top where it overhangs and fallen to the counter while drying overnight. I really didn?t care because it?s so much easier to eat shorter pasta anyway! But, I couldn?t quite explain why. Oh well. Time to cook it- and it was yummy! Good thing there was some leftover spaghetti meat to toss on top of my pasta because I wanted to sort of test it before preparing a whole planned-out meal for it. You understand? Exactly. So, now I?m ready to make more homemade pasta. It?s fun, it?s tasty and it?s totally awesome. Whoo!

Recipe:

2 c. flour

1 ts. dried basil or 1 ts. marjoram or 1 ts. sage

1/2 ts. salt

2 beaten eggs

1/3 c. water

1 ts. cooking oil or olive oil

Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl. In a small bowl, whisk wet ingredients. Make well in dry mixture, pour in wet stuff and mix well. Generously flour counter and dump sticky dough onto it, then add a little more flour on top of the dough. Knead till smooth and elastic, about 8-10 minutes. Let rest 10 minutes, covered. Divide into four equal parts. Roll each out to about 1/16 inch thickness. Let rest about 20 minutes, uncovered. Cut into desired pasta. Lie on wire rack or hang to dry. Store chilled for up to three days if dried completely. Or, dry an hour, then freeze. Cook dried or frozen pasta in boiling water with a pinch of salt for about 7 minutes, or until al dente. Use in your favorite pasta dishes!

Source: http://forthewinrachel.wordpress.com/2012/10/10/homemade-pasta/

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