Fresh Pasta Anyone...

For new year's eve, a friend of mine and I decided to try our hands at making home made pasta. At first it was a horrendous failure. The recipe didn't have nearly enough moisture to it (or maybe it was because we didn't have semolina, so we ground up our own whole wheat grains and hoped for the best). At any rate, we decided that at a certain point, when our friends were still hungry around 11pm, we'd use store bought and fix our batch in the morning. Here's what our evening looked like...

All the ingredients were laid out for pesto, chicken and caprese skewers for appetizers...

and the drinks were poured...
The appetizers were delightful (caprese skewers) ... alternate cherry tomatoes cut in half, fresh basil and mozzarella
I didn't document the failed pasta, but new year's day we woke up, made ourselves some mimosas and tried again.
Here are some pictures of the success...
First, roll it out nice and thin...

...then roll that up like a newspaper
... ... and slice.

then unravel and you have pasta!
We tossed it with some pesto and sausage (no casing)
for the music...well, right now I'm jamming out to Eagles of Death Metal

I'm thinking dessert posts will come next. I've got loads of dessert pictures.