Homemade Pasta - with fancy new tools

Do you remember the last time we made pasta?

Well, we decided to try it again. And this time we were armed with the proper tools (thanks to Mon Amour's parents for all the fun kitchen widgets!)

The first step, of course was to make the dough. Flour and eggs. That's all it takes.

Then you roll pieces of the dough through the pasta making machine. You re-feed it through about 10 times.

Over and over again it goes through.

Until you have a bunch of "pasta sheets" that are "smooth and silky like" (those were the directions' words exactly)

Then you add the slicing mechanism to the pasta machine, and feed the pasta sheets through one last time.

Out comes the pasta.

Which you then hang on this nifty pasta rack to dry for a little bit.

From the rack it goes into boiling water for just a few minutes. Drain and serve immediately.

For a touch of irony, serve your home made pasta with sauce from a jar, and garlic bread from the freezer. One day the whole meal will be homemade. Until then, homemade pasta (if you have the time to make it) is the way to go!