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Making Homemade Pasta For the First Time
The meal was so tasty, it was worth the work!
My sister-in-law gave us a pasta-making attachment for our kitchen aide mixer for Christmas. It was a complete gift including a pasta-making cookbook, drying rack, ravioli forms, and three attachments for the mixer.
Last Wednesday, we perused the cookbook and decided on an egg-based ravioli filled with a cheese and basil mixture. The basil was from my own plants, which I’d been keeping for Caprese salads this summer.
We also made homemade red sauce from a recipe my husband uses often. It’s delicious. After a quick trip to the local IGA in a very small town (less than 1,000 people live there) we were set to go. Unfortunately, the IGA is closing so I will be living in a food desert in the very near future. Although I don’t expect to be severely affected by the IGA’s closing, it might cause food insecurity for others in the area.
In any case, we got back to the house and were ready to cook! My job was to make the filling for the ravioli. It was pretty easy. My son’s job was to make the pasta. For some reason, my kitchen aide mixer did not like the palate attachment and liked the hook even less. So, my son ended up kneading the dough by hand.
