Picture in your mind a funnel cake. Now put your hands in that funnel cake and break it all to pieces. Now throw those pieces in boiling water and you have a perfect picture of what my noodles looked like. Not pretty, is it? Needless to say, we didn't eat them. I found a half empty box of farfalle in the back of the fridge that saved dinner.
The moral of the story: pasta making is not for the faint of heart or for just any old house frau with a rolling pin.
I had a similar pasta incident in February with ham pot pie. I also chronicled it in my blog. Ha.
ReplyDeleteAt least you gave it a shot! I'd like to try to make homemade noodles someday. Both of my grandmas have good recipes, but I'd be afraid to ruin them too!
ReplyDeleteI once tried to make mexican style baked beans from scratch... To say it didn't quite work out is an understatement.
ReplyDeleteI made noodles when I was three. It's easy. Just go to the store, get the Play-Do noodle machine, and tada! Noodles!!! Even multiple color choices!
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I tried to make country fried steak as the first thing to be made when we got the Le Creuset skillet... big mistake. They tell you @ the store it doesn't need to be seasoned- b.s.! ALL of the breading stuck to the skillet. We had tough, fried hamburger steaks, with greasy breading lumps on the side. Yuck!
ReplyDeleteOh, and I have always longed for a pasta maker. Maybe even just the old-fashioned kind with hand crank, mounted on the countertop.
ReplyDeleteI thought I had remembered there being a pasta maker attachment for KitchenAid stand mixers. All the more reason for me to get one. Now I just have to wait patiently for the Sunbeam to die... sigh.
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