All that practice with play dough paid off!

This past sat was the 1 year anniversary of the day peter and I got engaged. To celebrate we tried out our brand new kitchen aid attachment pasta maker to make ourselves a nice dinner. We also tried out our new beater blade attachment. Kitchen aid is a great kitchen tool, but its major flaw is that the mixing attachments designed for it do not fully reach the bottom of the bowl, which generally results in extra dry materials unmixed at the bottom of the bowl.

This new beater blade (pictured above) reaches all the way to the bottom helping to mix almost all of the ingredients. Since it touches the entire bowl its a bit noisier when mixing, but thats ok with me.

After all the ingredients were mixed through we attached the pasta attachment and began to make pasta! its exactly like playing with play dough! We were slightly concerned because the spinach wasnt chopped up well enough for the dough, but evidently the pasta attachment does some good blending while its pressing out the pasta to give it a nice even green color.



We tried 4 different pasta settings. Fusili:
This one lost most of its shape and looked kinda strange, but the consistency of the pasta cooked well.

Next we tried bucanini which i have never had before. its like spagetti but hollow little tubes. These probably came out the best!


Lastly we tried large macaroni and rigatoni which practically came out the same (rigatoni a bit better).

We threw all the different types in the pot of boiling water and made a confetti of pasta! I made a tomato/cream/pesto sauce that was so delicious if i do say so myself. We served it on our new plates


mmmm what a delicious celebration!