Homemade Pasta

There is other news, plenty of it, but by far the most exciting thing as of late is the fact that this morning Angelines and I have successfully made homemade raviolis! :)

Tah-Dah!!!

At the beginning of June Angelines bought me a spaghetti maker with an add-on for raviolis.  I was stoked; who wouldn't be??  Both of us have been dying to try it out, but we haven't actually sat down to make them until today.  We whipped up the dough, but there was a slight learning curve using the machienery to roll it out to the right thickness.  Angelines got a handle on that part relatively quickly while I mixed up the filling: spinach, ricotta cheese, toasted walnuts, garlic and salt all into the food processor.  After a taste test we decided something was still missing.  I added pepper, a small chunk of manchego cheese and some nutmeg--delicious!  I was so pleased with myself.  

Filling the raviolis was like playing with playdough. :) You catch the ends of two long strips of the rolled out pasta dough between the rollers, plop the filling in between and then just crank away.  Vóila, out come the completed raviolis you see in the first picture.  Now we have to let them dry a bit, then separate them.  We're actually not planning to eat them until tomorrow, but I can tell you right now they're going to be AMAZING.  I can't wait to make my own spaghetti and fettuchini, either.  What fun.

Of course as we were playing with the dough and marvelling at how it squished out into perfect little zigzag edged squares, I couldn't help thinking how much fun my daughter will have helping me do this some day in the future. :)