Making Homemade Pasta

We decided it was time to get the kitchen dirty.  It was pasta-making time!  Tricia pulled the pasta-making contraption out of the cabinet and mixed up some dough.  The pasta-roller has different settings.  She rolled out a ball of pasta dough and ran it through the press.  Each couple of passes, she adjusted the settings down a notch to make it thinner and thinner.

You can see how the dough not only gets thinner, but the dough gets longer and longer.  In the back left of the photo you can see the rolling pin and the balls of dough ready for processing into pasta.

We floured the island down so the pasta wouldn't stick and as the pasta got to the desired thickness and length, we laid it out to begin to dry a little bit.

Then we put the pasta cutting attachment onto the pasta roller.  In this case we were making fettucine.  As we run the pasta through the cutter, it is transformed from flat dough to fettucine.

The 'nests' of fettucine were pulled out and placed in clumps on the island to dry.

Soon we had processed all the fettucine.  I was all in a big pile.

Man, I love pasta!  Doesn't this stuff look good?

We got a pot of salted water boiling on the stove-top and put the past in.

Once done, we poured into a colander and drained.  Instead of taking the time to make a sauce, we decided to just eat it with garlic, butter, green onions, salt and pepper.

Just prior to eating, we grated some Parmesan cheese on top, sat down and enjoyed.

I tell you, it is delicious!  We're going to start making up pasta, drying and storing in plastic bags to enjoy a little later.