"Get to the chase"...a favorite saying of mine! OK we're there! I have these photos of some of the process in my fresh pasta making from a few months ago, and decided to do a post on it. Instead of showing the video at the end, it showed up on the actual beginning, by googling ...'how to make fresh pasta' to show you, instead of me explaining step-by-step!
So, this is my pasta sheets without seeing the video, but now I see my mistake where I should've cut the pasta strips straight across to make even to feed into the machine...but, no worries, it still worked feeding it into the machine to stretch the dough out to the right consistency.
When you finish the pasta strips, you are ready to stack them into little nests and let them dry like that...no need to hang them on a rack, unless you make a lot and plan to freeze them, which is way too much work. Just make enough for one serving, enough for 4-6, which is plenty. I actually made a double batch recently when we had family visiting from Italy!
Pasta Fresca...versus Pastasciutta...that is the question?
Fresh, or dry pasta...should not even be the 'question', because there is no such question here in the U.S. asking, which one you prefer to eat. Hahh?...why would you even want to ask...only in Italy they ask; as far as I remember it wasn't like that 30 or so, years ago! Either way, you have to boil both type of pastas and serve them topped with sauce of your choice! When I first heard that term a few years ago...'Pastasciutta'...literally, 'dry pasta'...now why are you asking me if I want to eat 'dry pasta'!?...so insane, so not correct...we all know you're not gonna run into the kitchen at that point and start making a batch of 'fresh pasta' if that is what I would prefer to have...so why are you asking me if I would like to eat Pastasciutta! OK, I made my point, I think...go figure, only in 'Italy'! Mangia, mangia ! Basta parole! (enough words)
So, this is my pasta sheets without seeing the video, but now I see my mistake where I should've cut the pasta strips straight across to make even to feed into the machine...but, no worries, it still worked feeding it into the machine to stretch the dough out to the right consistency.
