Pasta is my favorite food. Plus I like cooking things from scratch,
listening to playlists of my favorite music, and generally being
awesome with my awesome friends. So... this is what I did for my
birthday dinner this year:
We
(my boyfriend Mike, my friend Loryn, and I) made pasta dough from
scratch. I know I've already showed pictures of the other ravioli I did
from scratch, but this dough came out
way better.
And we also turned it into a couple different thicknesses of pasta,
including fettucine, linguine, and pastina, shown below. The recipe can
be found
here.
For
the ravioli filling, we eyeballed/tasted a mixture of ricotta,
mozzarella, basil and garlic. Then we did a batch with all that plus
parm, then we did another batch with all that plus feta. It all came out
deliciously.
This
was the thickest setting the pasta maker had... by the way, if you ever
make your own pasta, even if it's just ravioli and you have a mold,
definitely use one of these. It's so much easier than using a rolling
pin to roll it out by hand. And they seem to be the kind of obscure
appliance that people buy and then never use...thus, they are often
found at garage sales for dirt cheap. :)
In
order, fettucine, pastina, and linguine. Or something close to
linguine. There's a great guide to Italian pasta I found on google at
this web address. It has the shapes and descriptions of what I have to believe is every single kind of pasta ever made in Italy.
Here's a random list of just a few of the dozens of types I've never even heard of:
Perciatelli
Bavettine
Mafalde
Calamarata
Tagliatelle
Cavatappi
I tied a pastina bow around one of my ravioli. :)
Everything
came out great... I guess I forgot to get any pictures of the pastas
with sauce on our plates. Possibly because I was too busy eating them.
Oh well. ;)
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