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Monday, January 26, 2009

Pasta Machine Noodle Maker FAIL

It started out like any other day. We went to the Goodwill and found this wacky pasta making machine. Fun, fun! $10 for a new kitchen toy. So, we bought it. It has no instruction manual or recipes so we did what we do and looked on line. The man found this groovy and hilarious 1994 vid on youtube.
It promises to familiarize you with your unit, inside and out, but it only talks about the machine.

Here is the machine and some flour and some pulp from JUICING. I figured it would be a nice vege pasta with a little taste of ginger. mmmm.














I was going to make lasagna noodles and maybe make a lasagna.

I put flour, pulp and oil in the machine, thinking, who needs to measure. Too wet, add water, to dry add more flour, right. Well that's what it said in the video.














The truth is, this machine does NOT work!! I set it to extrude and it would not grab the dough and push it through the slot. Poorly designed, not my fault.
















I ask you, does THAT ^ look ANYTHING like Lasagna Noodles? No. It looks like biscuit dough shoved through a slot

I took the dough out (NOT easy) and tossed the doughy machine parts in the sink. I've made pasta before, without a machine.

I have a rolling pin and a board :)















Sliced into 1-1.5" strips















And into the dehydrator they go.















I really don't expect them to be good. We shall see.

Then rolled out some more















And used this tool to make some seed cheese ravioli!















About a tsp in each one.















I will put them in boiling water for a minute and serve them with fresh raw marinara and a HUGE salad!

Maybe next time I will use a recipe...
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1 comment:

  1. BeeARawFoodieJanuary 26, 2009 at 4:25 PM

    New to your site! Awesome Rawsome!
    I love all the play-by-play pics on the pasta adventures!

    How do you have the "Where people are from" tracking guests? I'd love to have that on my blog!

    I will add your raw blog to my list to follow! Always glad to find another raw foodie blogger!

    Thanks! I found your blog searching for dehydrator + bananas + cookies and now I'm inspired to make raw pasta too!!

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