Pasta Anyone?

On Friday afternoon Dom came home a little early and we made spaghetti and fettucini with our new pasta maker attachment for our kitchen aide! We had some pre dinner drinks as well. :)

Here is my darling husband, looking so adorable - and being a good sport for letting me take pictures, who mixed the dough together.

There are lots of variations of pasta, which I am SURE you all know, so we added rosemary, basil and red wine for our pasta. Here I am holding the first sheet we made.

Ahhhh, we have spaghetti!! I was so estactic when I saw it come out of the roller!

Here's Dom making the fettucini!

Doesn't it look so pretty?!

All cooked!
Yum! We had homemade spaghetti and homemade fettucini alfredo with a homemade cheese bread that Dom made the day before! It was delicious!

We had a lot of fun making a delicious Friday meal together - it took less time to make it from mixing the dough to cooked pasta then it would have taken to boil a pot of water and cook boxed pasta! It was very easy and simple and we both definitely like the idea of making our own pastas more often. Besides, we can make it according to what we want - like spinach pasta...i can't wait to try that one. Our fettucini we decided was a little on the thicker side and we will take it down a notch next time but the spaghetti was perfect! Hope you get to try it someday, if you haven't already!

Beef Stuffed Ravioli - What a Wednesday!

This morning as I pondered what I wanted to accomplish today, I thought of what to make for dinner. I decided I wanted to make some Ravioli's! I looked up some recipes and read through how they are made and how time consuming they were etc.... I thought about it and was like, it can't be any harder (and or very similar) than making pierogi's! So, I went to about my day then this afternoon I got to start preparing dinner!

First I took the flour and made a well:

Then I mixed the eggs, water and oil together:

And added them to the well in the flour:
After I mixed it up I laid it out on a floured surface to hand knead a little:

Then I cut it up into eight pieces (the recipe called to cut it in quarters but since I don't have a pasta press I did it in eighths to see if it would make it easier for rolling out the ole fashioned way with a wooden rolling pin). I then let it rest while I prepared the filling:

I browned the ground meat in a frying pan and added some minced garlic and chopped onions as well as some grated parm & romano, colby jack and pepper jack cheeses. I put it all in a bowl and then added an egg and mixed it all up. Then into the refridgerater it went to chill:

Then I came back to the dough to roll out the pieces into long, rectangular shaped pieces... I did not make perfect square shapes - I was more just whatever...

I did two pieces at a time, one bottom & one top piece. I maked the bottom so I would know where to put the filling:

Then added the filling and prepared to add the top piece of dough:

I then pinched the tops to the bottoms and cut around the ravioli's - aren't they so cute:

Here's most of the finished and resting (the recipe said to lay them on a floured cloth to dry out a bit... I just kept turning them on the pan):

All done cleaning up! Shwew! That wasn't so bad! Only took a total of less than two hours from start to finish!

MMMMmmmm yummy, homemade beef stuffed ravioli with sauce and a piece of garlic bread! Yum, YUm, YUM!