Every few years, I drag out the old pasta maker and try my hand at making pasta. My pasta maker is an Atlas 150 but it’s an old one and the new ones, even with the same number are a bit different.
Atlas 150
CJ has a 150 with 9 settings and mine is a 150 with 7 settings. My pasta sheets are pretty thin on the #7 setting. In the photos below, you can see how thin the sheets are. Amazon lists their current 150 model with 9 settings.
Anyway, CJ has a wonderful tutorial here for making fresh egg pasta. It was so easy and so good.
Fresh Egg Pasta
I used 1/3 sprouted wheat flour and 2/3 regular white flour and made the “4 egg” version. That’s a whole lot of pasta!
I was thinking as I was making the pasta . . it takes flour and eggs and fresh pasta cooks in 2 – 4 minutes. It would be something good to fix during a power outage. I’ll soon have lots of eggs and using 3 or 4 for pasta is a good way to use some of them.
Speck
Speck loves anything to eat but he especially loves pasta. I was rolling this out and cutting it on the corner of the table and he was catching every crumb that fell before it even hit the floor. Such an attentive little fellow.
Dinner
For dinner, we had the pasta, with CJ’s Spicy Alfredo Crawfish Pasta Sauce, which was delicious.
Pretty much all of yesterday was spent in the kitchen. Today . . I’m knitting!
Julie in WA says
Mmmmm…homemade pasta. I remember back in the good old days (before child) when I had time to make pasta. I never thought what a great food it is for powerless meals and for camping! How do you store your pasta?
Sue S says
Pasta is so easy to mix up, and I’m reminded that I have a pasta machine buried in the back of the cupboard somewhere… I’ll have to bring it out and teach the granddaughters how to do this! My favorite aunt always cooks her pasta in the soup broth for extra flavor. You can dry it and store it if you make enough, have the space and can refrain from eating it all the first day. 🙂
Cathy Smith says
That looks like a ton of pasta! Was it too much for the two of you? Does it store well?
JudyL says
It was enough for about 3 meals. I cooked 1/3 of it all the way done and we ate that with the crawfish. I cooked the other 2/3 and divided it in half and put the leftover crawfish with it. Will heat that up together. The other third went into a bag and I will drop it into boiling water and immediately strain it and serve it with spaghetti/meat sauce.
Karin Vail says
I have never tried making homemade pasta – I have now ordered a pasta roller/cutter so I can make some too! Can’t wait to try it! Is egg pasta the easiest to make? Didn’t look too difficult with the instructions that CJ gave……
JudyL says
It isn’t hard at all. My first few pieces were a little rough but by the time I had done 2 or 3, it was easy and the pasta was smooth and looked good. You can do it!
Donna F says
Judy, I think it’s time you write a cookbook! It certainly would be a good one.
Sherrill says
MY DH”s mom ALWAYS made their pasta and several varieties once a month. He used to say he remembered coming home and finding his bed (& many other surfaces in the house) covered with sheets covered with pasta as it dried. There was one type like little funnel shapes and he’d demonstrate how she’d curl ten of those at a time on her ten fingers!! He thought it was so cool how she did that.