Thursday, December 25, 2008

Holiday Pasta


I've been wanting to make striped pasta for a while. It's suprisingly difficult to learn about how to make striped pasta. In my online research, I was able to find a few different techniques. I went with making a base layer of egg pasta, then using water to glue colored fettucine or cappellini to the base. Then I rerolled it. It certainly was imperfect - the stripes often folded or bent. As I was making a bowtie shape, I wasn't too concerned, but to make perfect striped fettucine would be challenging.


I made egg pasta with 4 eggs to 3 cups of all purpose flour, then adjusted if necessary with an extra yolk. If I'm doing filled pasta, I use the same ratio but add a little olive oil instead of extra yolk. I added tomato paste for the reddish orange pasta and spinach to make the green.

The striping took much longer than making solid colored pasta, so I made some straight tomato and some straight spinach then mixed them all together.



Eventually got tired of making bowties and made these:

Sunday, December 07, 2008

Champagne Fest

Menu

Blini

Bread Shots (Filled with pesto or fig with goat cheese)

Favorite chocolate cake with dulce de leche and nibs
(Nick Malgieri's Gran Maman Cake)

Thursday, November 27, 2008