finding local flair anywhere
There really are only four ingredients in fresh pasta. And with a little bit of love, you can have it in your home – either now or later! It can be cooked right away (which I do with ravioli, as featured here), or even hung to dry for a day or two. It cooks up a little differently, but tasty all the same. I found that when I cooked the noodles which had been dried, they gave me a bit more of an eggy flavor, perfect for another recipe I’ve got in mind…
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I fell in love with making pasta in high school. I took a Creative Foods class with one of the greatest teachers ever (it’s probably because she’s British and we loved getting her to say “butter” with a hard “R” sound). One of our tasks one week was to prepare fresh pasta. The whole process was absolutely nuts with 4 people to a kitchen station. After that class, I pined away for fresh pasta, but never again made my own. Until I got married. And someone was actually crazy enough to purchase a pasta machine I had put on our registry like we would USE it.
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