On Mother’s Day we had a lot of fun. We decided to make fettuccine. Our dinner was already cooking (a beef roast, chard from the garden, carrots, mashed potatoes), but thought we would make some pasta just for fun and freeze it for another time.
We put the flour, eggs, oil, and water in the Kitchen Aid mixer bowl and let the dough hook mix it up to form a ball of dough that was not dry, but not sticky either. We let it rest about half an hour and then cut it up into eight pieces.
After pressing the pieces flat we passed them through the roller attachment on the Kitchen Aid, first on setting #1 and then on #2 and again on #6. By the third pass, the dough was thin enough.
We set the flattened dough on a floured board and changed the attachment to one that would cut strips about 3/8 of an inch wide (I’m guessing). The sheets of dough were then passed through the roller, with the mixer at a slightly higher speed.
Once the fettuccine came out of the roller, cut into strips, it was important to dust those strips with flour so the ribbons of dough didn’t stick to each other.
The last sheet was ready to pass through the roller.
Quick and easy and fun to make, this fettuccine is not perfect, but we know the ingredients that are in it, and I like to know what I’m eating.
We put most of the fettuccine on baking sheets lined with parchment paper, to freeze and later put in ziploc bags, but it looked so good that we decided to boil a small pot of fettuccine to have alongside the potatoes, roast, and gravy.
It was delicious and, best of all, we had fun making it.
A lot of steps but I imagine it must taste wonderful!
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It gets easier each time I do it, and it does taste really good.
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Never made pasta!
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Oh, what you’re missing, Raili! It’s fun. It’s tasty.
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I realized afterwards that I should have taking some pictures of the dough being mixed, but I hadn’t really thought of taking any pictures or doing a blog until it became obvious how much fun we were having.
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Homemade pasta – so good. 🙂 I loved seeing your steps. 🙂
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Not at all my idea of fun! I’m guessing that made fresh, it boils very quickly. Am I right?
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Yes, it doesn’t take long at all. I like to put it in the frying pan right afterwards but it’s not necessary.
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Looks yummy!
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It really was too. I didn’t bother with the mashed potatoes and had the pasta instead.
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Looks wonderful!
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It’s so tasty and if you have some frozen you can just take out a small handful to boil for adding to a stir fry, and it’s delicious in that.
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Oh the fun you had making fettuccine! I bet the pasta tastes so much better than the store-bought stuff.
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It really does. Quite different, in a good way.
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I make pasta , except all by hand, mixing, rolling, cutting. It tastes so much better than the bought pasta, that I feel the work is worth it.That machine looks as if it works like a charm.
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I have the hand roller machine but this Kitchen Aid attachment is so much easier.
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What a great idea!
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My mother-in-law thought she didn’t like pasta, so I thought if she made it herself, she’d have a better idea of how much more interesting it can be than she thought before. She really enjoyed making and eating it.
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Now I know where they serve the best pasta 🙂
Putting ChefsOpinion to shame.
Cheers !
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Oh, I don’t think so, but I’m flattered just the same.
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I love pasta, but I’ve never attempted to make it homemade. I’ll bet it was yummy!
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It really is good. Way better than store bought. But it’s a bit of work.
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Who has all of that nice equipment for making pasta? We roll the dough by hand, but arthritis is making that more difficult these days. We do have one of those cutters though, that you showed, for thinning the dough and cutting the noodles. When I was growing up, my mom had drying racks for the spaghetti or fettuccini noodles. Which has me thinking . . . they may be in the basement with all the boxes my mom gave me when she moved into her senior apartment.
Looked like fun. Glad you rewarded yourselves by eating some instead of saving it all for later.
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I know it’s a lot of work without the rollers. I’ve tried it. But it’s worth it, and because I love pasta so much, it has been worthwhile getting the roller attachments for the mixer.
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I like how you decided to do this, “Just for fun”
Yes, a lot of work, but a lot of joy in the doing of it.
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My mother-in-law is 96, and it was a nice way to spend Mother’s Day with her getting right into the kitchen like she used to do.
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What a kind and thoughtful daughter-in-law you are…hugs.
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Thanks. We had fun and it made the day kind of different and special. Enjoy your week!
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Looks like a lot of work, a lot of fun too and a very tasty pasta! Mother-in-law had a very fun Mother´s Day, thanks to you! Just perfect!!!
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It really helped to make it a good day.
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What fun!
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It was! Thanks, Jennie.
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You’re welcome, Anneli. 🙂
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I admire your patience! 🙂
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Sometimes I have it, sometimes I don’t. 😉
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