Homemade pasta

[sylvar]

I used some gift money to get a set of KitchenAid stand-mixer accessories: a pasta roller, a fettuccine cutter, and a spaghetti cutter. The water is boiling now.

I made fettuccine already, but it gummed up while the water was boiling. So I've rolled it out again into WELL-FLOURED sheets and will cut it when the water is ready to receive it as quickly as I can feed it through the rollers.

Maybe I should be looking for a pasta-drying rack... or just try the clothes-drying rack I already have!

Comments

[vartan.livejournal.com]

homemade pasta is indeed delicious, I made some ravioli about a month ago and everyone thought it was the best thing ever. for stuff like fettuccine though I usually just lightly flour it and kind of arrange the in little...like...bundles, nests, something like that? they fix themselves in the water if they stick a little, but they usually don't if you flour them. I've had the pasta kinda get too dried out, which is inbetween store-dried and totally fresh, and it's kinda bleh and brittle and seems to bloat up in the water more while it stays too firm in parts.