Celebration Generation: Food, Life, Kitties!

Well, after using our pasta maker a total of three times, it bit the big one. Crappy POS… Also, I had not been having good luck in the kitchen – the death of my pasta maker came only days after my beloved KitchenAid stand mixer decided to take a dive off my kitchen counter… … [...]

One of our favorite salads involves picked beets, goat cheese, and walnuts with a basil cream dressing. When we recently purchased a pasta machine, one of the very first recipes we created for it was based around that salad – a beet pasta dough, filled with a goat cheese mixture, and topped with a basil [...]

We recently purchased a pasta machine. As we debated what the first thing we would make should be (Plain pasta? No. Running before you walk is always more fun!), I had an idea: One of Porter’s favorite meals ever is Spanakopita. What if I took the basic flavors of spanakopita, made a filling from it… [...]

Homemade pasta may sound fancy and exotic at first, but it’s actually quite easy – and can be fun, too! When we recently purchased a pasta machine, we went a bit nuts with it, churning out 7 different pasta doughs the first afternoon. SO much easier to run them through a machine, than to roll [...]