September was all about food – mostly pasta but some baking.
One day near the end of August, Seth came home with a little metal pasta maker and we were inspired to make spaghetti and linguini. It’s surprisingly easy. The pasta maker comes with a basic pasta dough recipe. After the dough is, well, in dough form, you run it through the machine to flatten it to a somewhat thin, oblong sheet of floury eggy goodness. Then you put it in the cutter side and make either spaghetti or linguini.
Et voila! Add some olive oil with garlic and shallots, some grape tomatoes, chicken and parmesan cheese and you have an amazingly tasty homemade pasta dish!
I bought a ravioli maker to add to our pasta making options. It’s really a ravioli cutter because it’s not as automated as an attachment to the machine but it works just fine.
We filled the little pasta pockets with minced shrimp, garlic, oil, and cheese and they were soooo tasty.
I highly recommend making your own pasta, it’s better than any dried pasta you can buy. You can also make a bunch of fresh pasta in advance and freeze it. We actually thawed some frozen fresh pasta on Sunday and it was just as good as the night we made it.
In addition to pasta, I’ve been trying to make a good lemon-ginger cookie. I tried two recipes this month. One was too lemony (drowned out the ginger), the other had a good lemon-ginger flavor but was a little too buttery…I still ate too many of them, but took no photos.
A friend bought me some new autumn-themed cookie cutters – little bite-sized pumpkins, leaves, acorns and turkeys. So cute! The same day I purchased candy eyes. I couldn’t resist the temptation to make little sugar cookies with eyes.
The spicy pumpkin muffins that I made the same day also became adorned with eyes – at least the mini-muffins.
Fall is the best time of year for food – pumpkin and mushrooms and apples and yum!
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