Pasta madness

[lollardfish]

During the World Cup final yesterday I made pasta. I've gotten good at assembling the dough on the board by hand (really the best way to get the right "feel" for the dough), then letting the stand mixer do the kneading.

I made regular "white" pasta.
I made red wine pasta that came out too brown.
I made tomato-paste pasta that came out a lovely orange.
I made pesto "pantesco" pasta. (Link for pesto recipe).
I made squid-ink pasta.

I then tried to combine them, and I really couldn't come up with a neat way to do it. Ultimately, I made three small rectangles of lightly rolled out dough from white, orange, and black, then rolled them together a little and sent them through the sheet-press. I ended up with tri-colored pasta which I have cut, put into a bag, and shall eat tomorrow, but it's not pretty. It'd make a great halloween pasta dish though.

For dinner last night at lee_os's apartment, I made ravioli of the pantesco dough, and stuffed them with a little more of the pesto and some mozarella (because we had some in the house). I made a sauce of capers, onion, sherry, and hot giardini (and oil), and some basil and tarragon from the garden. Garnished the plates with parmigiano, more of the giardini, and more of the pesto. Tasty stuff.

Comments

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

They had just crossed the border at 3:30 or so. It'll be late.

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

When I called 5 minutes ago, they were in (or just through) Moorhead.