Do you make your own pasta?

[Kimmyt]

I made some awesome gnocchi not too long ago. It was surprisingly easy and it turned out well, I would recommend it for people who want to make their own pasta but are afraid to make something too labor intensive.

[malkin]

I did it several times a week for about a year when I was nouveau pauvre, not quite divorced (no income) with a two year old. She and I had great fun and something to eat afterwards. We used a hand crank machine.

I used all the variations from Abby Mandell's Cuisinart cookbook. The kid's favorite was the spinach one, because she liked cranking the spinach in the salad spinner and because the pasta comes out a beautiful green.

[smilingcat]

Oooo gnocchi! plain or something in it?

Did you make a white sauce or red sauce or something else? For a pot luck at my office, my boss, who is of Itallian descent, requested I make him a white sauce. I made a simple mornay sauce. He liked it.

yummo!

[Kimmyt]

I made plain gnocchi, doubled the batch and froze alot of it so I could have it for multiple meals. I just made different sauces to go with it, once a red win ragu and another time a browned butter spinach sauce.

I have a recipe for sweet potato gnocchi that I'm dying to try...

[smilingcat]

I have a recipe for sweet potato gnocchi that I'm dying to try...

Light bulb just glowed in my head. I do have a half of a sweet potato all cooked up. Was thinking of mashing and baking it again with honey, butter cinnamon, powdered clove, powdered ginger but sweet potato gnocchi sounds delish. Make some ghee add some whole sage leaves and coat gnocchi.

Thanks! I'll try this tonight.

[skinimini]

That sounds wonderful! Let us know how it turns out and please pass on the recipe. Love gnocchi and love sweet potatoes. I have a butternut squash in the fridge. . . hmm, I wonder how that would work?

[indigoiis]

want recipe!

[crazycanuck]

I just made some fresh pasta & will cook it tonight for dinner. Now all I need is to make the sauce

If i want to store the rest of the dough in my fridge until Monday(combined lunch w friends..), is it ok if i leave it in a ziplock bag?

[crazycanuck]

Smilingcat...do you have a cool white sauce recipe?

A swiss friend is visiting Aust & we're having him over for dinner this week. We'll be doing our homemade pasta but i'm on the white sauce..

Help?

[Reesha]

Carbonara can be a really lightweight white sauce, but you kind of prepare it with the pasta, not separately.

I put a recipe for Smoked Salmon carbonara in the TE cookbook that's linked in my signature if you're curious. It's a great, easy and delicious recipe.

[Crankin]

I made pasta once, 25 years ago. My whole kitchen was covered with flour and much wine was consumed. I remember ruining a new pair of nice chino pants with olive oil, too.
Let's just say the pasta maker attachment was put away after that.

[crazycanuck]

Reesha-yes please~

[smilingcat]

Smilingcat...do you have a cool white sauce recipe?

A swiss friend is visiting Aust & we're having him over for dinner this week. We'll be doing our homemade pasta but i'm on the white sauce..

Help?

I like Reesha's recipe. Mine tends to be more classic so its heavy. Classic Bechamel sauce as the base.

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I also like herbed sauce. French Tarragon cream sauce comes to mind.

Add about a tablespoon of finely chopped French tarragon to about a cup of cream sauce and gently cook. Do not substitute other kinds of tarragon. Fresh one is better.

Grill some low fat fish halibut/cod or chicken breast. Slice the fish/chicken and toss with farafalle and the tarragon cream sauce. Carbonera sauce will work very well.

keep it simple and try it first (days) before your guests arrive.