First things first. I need to become a master of regular non-vegetable infused pasta making!
I made pasta! In the past I would have been way too intimated to try something like this, buuuuut...
I've been hooked on a cooking competition show, MasterChef, and have been inspired by the chefs and the food they make on the show. (Turns out, I am a reality TV junkie. It's pathetic how much I look forward to the next episode of the Bachelorette, and don't get me started on the number of times I have rewatched auditions on So You Think You Can Dance, or the number of dinners we have eaten which were inspired by MasterChef... and those are only the current reality shows...)
One episode, they made pasta. So... guess what we had for dinner... homemade pasta!
(Unfortunately though, tonight we did not have lime meringue pie for dinner... )
I am still so amazed that the pasta was not only edible, but pretty tasty, and shockingly not that hard to make.
I didn't take nearly enough pictures of the process, but here is the link to the blog I followed. She posted lots of pictures!
Ingredients:
Flour (I used whole wheat, and it worked!)
Eggs
2 eggs per cup of flour (this would serve two)
Directions:
Make well in flour.
Crack eggs in well.
Mix by hand with one hand until all combined.
Turn out onto floured surface.
Knead until smooth and no longer tacky.
Roll out as thin as you possibly can.
Slice into thin noodles.... bwhahahah, good luck with that! (when I figure out a secret time-saving trick, I will let you know!)
Add noodles to salted boiling water.
Cook for 2 minutes.
Eat!
Here is a picture:
I served these with a garlic-olive-oil-tomato-green-onion "sauce." Because those were the ingredients we had!
Also, how good am I....
C's first noodles? Homemade. Because I am that good. (Or maybe because I watch too much reality TV?)
After kneading the dough into a ball I sliced it in half and saved the other half for the next night, when we had ravioli!
See?!
This is a spinach and ricotta filling with green onions, salt, pepper, nutmeg, oh, and an egg. Delicious!
(ps. I think that close up picture might be the best picture I've taken for the blog! I am not a great picture-taker, that's for sure. Where's the photography reality TV show when I need it?!)
The judges may have sent me home for this meal (because I used whole wheat maybe, and the presentation is not even close, also, the vegetables are not seasoned at all... actually they are barely cooked... our two year old likes them better frozen... well, yes, I think they would have thrown me out of the kitchen!), but for our little family, it was just fine!