I have Easter pictures to post from last weekend but first I want to share the pasta we made the week before that. A little over a decade ago I borrowed my mum’s pasta machine. About three years ago she gave me a cookbook with recipes for everything from jam to making your own bacon and it had a pasta recipe in it that I wanted to try. Two weeks ago I finally gave it a shot.

It was awesome!

The recipe is an egg pasta and a single batch is enough for three meals at our house. I’m glad I have the pasta machine for the rolling out because it makes it go really quickly. The most time consuming part of the process is kneading the dough and that only takes eight or ten minutes. The first batch I did all by myself so I could get a good feel for the dough and the process. For the second batch Maisie helped out with the scooping, mixing and kneading (and I used a pie plate instead of a mixing bowl; it was a lot easier). By half way through the first batch Maisie had mostly figured out how the pasta machine worked just from watching me and started giving directions while she cleaned up my mess.

Pulling homemade dry pasta out of my cupboard and turning it into dinner is one of the coolest things I’ve experienced lately. It’s so rewarding. The pasta is so much easier than I thought it would be to make that when we go down the rice-and-noodles aisle at the grocery store I find myself thinking “nah, we’ll make some that’s better instead”.

p.s. It’s way easier to store and portion if you let it dry in nests rather than straight.

p.p.s. That card was in the box with the pasta maker. I considered calling my aunt for the additional instructions just for fun but I don’t have her phone number.