Bella Trattoria inspired me to take on an all-day cooking project today. Witness: my first batch of homemade pappardelle, drying on a (clean!) wooden stick.
I'd always heard pasta making was easy, but I was surprised just how easy it really was. I don't own a pasta roller so I rolled these by hand. It was pretty easy getting the dough to be so thin it was almost see through. I wouldn't be able to slice spaghetti by hand, but pappardelle, handkerchief pasta, lasagna sheets, or ravioli would all be easily created with this lovely dough. It is labor-intensive, so I'm not going to stop buying dried pasta any time soon. However, this would be a nice thing to make for the occasional batch of extra special pasta sauce.
4 comments:
Do you own a KichenAid standing mixer (and I am sure you do)? They have an attachment for making pasta that works pretty darn well...
Is there a reason you had to specify a CLEAN wooden dowel? Har har
K--Because it's not every day I wash an old paint roller extender? There, I confessed. I don't have special pasta drying dowels.
L--I would get the KA pasta attachment, but it costs like 3 times more than a manual pasta roller!! I know it's because it's motorized so you don't need to use one hand to crank the machine, but dang. $100ish. That's a lot of pasta.
so worth it though...
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