Making one's own pasta is a winner on every count. It's easy to do, hard to make mistakes, and is an excellent way to involve the kids. Home-made pasta is so cheap that it can save a home with a few mouths quite a lot of money. And, best of all, the results are fantastically tasty.
We've just sourced a new supply of pasta-making machines - slightly heavier, about the same size as the previous model. As always, I tried it out to make sure I was happy with it, and made fresh egg pasta.
And it couldn't have been easier. Flour and eggs, and five minutes to make the pasta, thirty minutes to have a glass of red whilst the pasta rested, and then into a saucepan of boiling water. The sheer freshness of home-made egg pasta is wonderful.
Store-bought pasta is sometimes just a neutral backdrop for the sauce or filling, but this is so good I could eat it with just some olive oil drizzled through it and shaved hard cheese grated over it. And black pepper.
Homemade pasta is about the cheapest meal you can possibly have, and yet still packs a taste punch. But for me, cost aside, the best thing is just how darn good egg pasta is to eat.
http://www.cuisine.com.au/recipe/Egg-pasta provides decent instructions on how to make pasta - I leave the eggs out of the fridge for an hour beforehand though to let them assume room temperature.
There are electric pasta machines available now at 'domestic' price points, and we might look at selling one next year. Love to get feedback from anyone who already has one.
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