What is homemade pasta? Don't we already make pasta at home? What is the difference? I guess I should have said FRESH pasta. Pasta is a noodle made with eggs, oil and flour, there are many different shapes and uses. Macaroni is a tube shaped pasta, from here you can get shaped pastas like shells, rigatoni and rotini. These are great for hearty thick pastas that will really hold their sauce. Now, we are going to start with gnocchi (knee-o-key) a pillowy type of dumpling made with mashed potatoes, these are best with a simple tomato (pomodoro) sauce. The second recipe we will try is Bon Appetit's fresh pasta with Alfredo sauce, our two versions are the traditional pasta a beurre and north American Alfredo with whipping cream and cheese. When making gnocchi DO NOT OVERWORK THE DOUGH or gluten, but with fresh pasta you need the gluten to stretch so we knead for 10 minutes. Finally with our remaining pasta dough, we are making scratch lasagne with fresh pasta noodles and bechamel sauce. This is delicious! We're using ground beef and sweet Italian sausage. I am making one with plant based meats and we will compare the tastes. When we first start our block, we will make our breadstick dough, you are able to add seasoning to it or just have it plain. The dough does need to rise before we shape and bake it, so we must start this first.
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