That's how much my Grammie spent on this pasta machine and I love it...$5. It still has the sticker on the box, which is entirely in Italian. It costs me about 50 cents to make fresh pasta for 2 of us for dinner. Fresh does not have to be expensive.
The processes of kneading dough by hand and scrubbing my pans have become meditative.
To respond to my husband's pleas for some traditional Italian food, which, when we first lived together, was all I knew how to cook, I decided to make fresh pasta with a bolognese sauce for dinner. Yes. I have a box of pasta in my cabinet, but it was a pleasure to make it fresh.
Recipe:
1 cup all purpose flour
2 eggs
1 pinch of salt
You don't actually need a pasta machine, though it helps. You can roll the dough out flat, GENTLY fold it and slice it into ribbons of equal thickness.
Bolognese sauce:
Chopped onion, carrot, & celery cooked in olive oil
1/2 lb of ground beef
Add ~1/2 cup of red wine & reduce
Add ~1/2 cup of milk & reduce
Add 1 can ground peeled tomato
1 small handful of fresh chopped oregano, salt & pepper
Top with chiffonade of fresh basil.
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