Sunday, July 6, 2008

Chef Raquel

On Tuesday, I decided to venture out of my comfort zone of baking and try my luck at cooking. As I contemplated what to do in order to avoid boredom for the next 4 hours I thumbed through an old pasta cookbook given to me by my mom. Feeling brave, I rushed out to the grocery store and returned home armed and ready to make my first homemade pasta (we were out of eggs so I had to go get some). As I started kneading the dough I was a bit nervous, but after awhile my confidence was building. Turns out making pasta is quite easy. It is just extremely time consuming, especially if you don't own a pasta roller.

Cutting the pasta. I had to unroll each noodle individually.
Drying the pasta.

Voila!

Scott you would have been proud.


4 comments:

TheMoncurs said...

We LOVE home made pasta. You're right about it being a little time consuming, but it's so worth it!

TheMoncurs said...

PS I love the blog redesign
PPS I think it's funny that your mom has a blog.

Lonica said...

Looks good. Does your recipe book have any basil pasta? I'm looking to make some "specialty" pastas using herbs from our garden...

Staci said...

I'm extremely IMPRESSED!!! Especially when pasta is so cheap to BUY! I bet it was delicious! You'll have to post the recipe:)