Homemade Pasta - yum!

I just finished a bowl of pasta I made all by myself! I took a pasta making class at Whole Foods over the weekend and it was WONDERFUL! I highly recommend their classes. It was a day-long class. We started out int he morning, learning a basic pasta dough and some sauces. Then we broke for lunch and ate what we had made that morning, then spent the afternoon making ravioli and agnolotti. We made regular pasta, tomato, spinach, whole wheat, black pepper and herb pastas. Some of the sauces we made included: red pepper cream sauce, a tomato sauce w/basil, capers & olives and arugula pesto. Some of the ravioli fillings included: eggplant & goat cheese, spinach & walnut, and a 4 cheese filling.

My favorite was the arugula pesto so I made that again at home for Scott and myself.

My pasta machine worked beautifully! Just like the ones we used at cooking class.

Pasta making is a little labor intensive but it's certainly not hard. It's a lot of fun and it's cool to be able to add whatever you want to the dough, creating your own "signature" pasta.

I think I'd like to take a pastry class at some point, too.