A Valentine’s Day to Remember!

A beautiful day was had!

We decided to stay in and cook together!  So that’s what we did.

We made homemade pasta!

All the ingredients for pasta are in your pantry!

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3 eggs, 2 cups of flour, 1/2 tsp. salt, 1 T of olive oil and 3 T of water

Mix all the ingredients together in a stand up mixer or in a food processor until they come together and form a ball.

 

Place the ball of dough on the counter and knead it.

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Cover it with a tea towel and let it rest for a half hour.

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After a half hour roll out the dough into a rectangle.

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After rolling out the dough… cut it into 4 strips.

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Take one strip of dough and roll it through the pasta machine at level 1 on the dial. Do that a few times then roll it through level 2 a few times…

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Here you can see the number dial at the top.

After changing the dial to level 3 and 4 your little strip of dough looks like this…

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Then take that dough and roll it through the cutting part of the pasta machine.

Repeat all steps with all strips of dough and this is what you get.

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The pasta can dry for a few hours. But remember it is fresh pasta so it cooks in about 3 minutes. I drained the pasta then…

I tossed the pasta with roasted asparagus, baked salmon and olive oil.

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This was then accompanied with lobster tails because it was Valentine’s Day!

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After dinner it was time to go watch the sunset…

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He is always thinking… and yes, sweet man is recovering from shoulder surgery. He is doing well!  Update: he is all better now!
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A pretty flower was found!

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Do you see the balloons??  I will do that one day! Update: I did! See it here.

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We like to live by the sun and love by the moon…

I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine’s Day!

Until Next Time  ~Nancy