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How about another extra egg yolk?

02 Monday May 2016

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Make fresh pasta! I have had the experience of making fresh raviolis once before, it was a lot of work and it was years ago, but this time was different. I took the excuse of having extra egg yolks to make fresh pasta in order to use my new kitchen equipment, pasta rolling attachments. This being the second time doesn’t mean it was any easier, I still had a time of it with getting the dough together, it is much stickier than any other dough I have worked with, it’s only egg, salt and flour and it makes for one sticky mess quite a bit before you have anything resembling a ball of dough.

Once the dough was together, it rested for an hour to allow for the gluten to develop, I then cut the dough into four equal pieces in order to make feeding it through the attachment more manageable. It worked out fairly well, I think, for a first timer, though I think I wasted more dough than I should have, some pieces didn’t go through the fettuccine pasta cutter attachment and got stuck making for others to get a little stuck as well. However in all fairness to myself, my hard work did pay off with a nice resulting pasta dish, fettuccine with butter and Parmesan cheese. Unfortunately all this work only yielded 2 nice large servings, I can’t imagine how the Italian Nonas make their fresh pasta everyday, I couldn’t, I’d be exhausted and fed up after a week.

Now that I have the attachments, I have to make fresh pasta more often, but I think I’ll wait a while before jumping into the pasta dough process once again.

Bacon makes everything better

25 Monday Mar 2013

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Yes, I said it, bacon makes everything better. I know that nutritionally it isn’t the best for you, but if you have bacon, say on a once a week basis, how bad can it be? There are many comfort foods that have bacon attached to them in some fashion. One of my family’s favorite comfort foods is pasta carbonara and that is what’s for dinner tonight.

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The baby boy and the baby girl discovered their love for this dish at a small restaurant next to our rental apartment in Le Canon, France a few summers ago. There is nothing that beats the comfort level of this pasta dish; eggs, bacon, parmesan cheese, sautéed onions and a little cream plus the pasta. There is nothing not to like here.

When comfort food actually lives up to its name

14 Sunday Oct 2012

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Yesterday after we came home after we put our Rex to sleep, the only dish that I could think to make for us was pasta carbonara. It is our ultimate comfort food dish, a hearty meal of pasta, bacon, eggs, Parmesan cheese and cream, good for the belly and good for the soul. It is also one of the easiest and fastest dishes to make, I had it made in under a half hour. After the rough three days of caring for Rex, I was too spent to make anything more complicated. I have to say that last night, the pasta carbonara did its job, nourished us and comforted us. We miss Rex.

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