Sunday, June 12, 2011

April's new dish: Pasta dough

Well I don't have any pictures of this and really all I have is a blurb about it, but oh well, at least I tried to make something new!

One of the students in our lab finished this year so for our farewell John dinner one of the other guys in our lab made a fabulous multi course evening of deliciousness.  To help with this preparation I went to Matt's to help him chop things and generally do whatever he told me to do.  In this case I helped him make some sort of sauce that I believe eventually went into some eggplant and tomato bruschetta topping but that was something new for me.  The coolest new thing that I did was make my own pasta dough!  Matt was making some sort of squash, eggplant, zucchini (?) stuffed ravioli and he makes all of his pasta from scratch.  So I separated all the eggs, measured a bunch of flour out, and then just kneaded a lot of dough.  Unfortunately I couldn't stay long enough to help with the stuffing of the ravioli (because I would really enjoy learning how to do that!) but at least I can say I've made my own pasta!

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