Pasta Making with Kids

In the last school holidays I looked after my niece and nephew for my sister. We decided to make fresh pasta for dinner, a great fun thing to entertain kids in the holidays and you have the bonus of eating it for dinner too.

I use 100g flour per person and 1 egg per 2 people, a little salt. I mix it on the bench, by making a well in the middle of the flour and then add the eggs into the middle, and stir with your fingers until mixed then knead until smooth. The kids love the notion of a mess and getting your hands sticky.

Let the ball of pasta rest for the gluten to work, then with the application of lots of flour, put the pasta through a pasta machine to roll it out. This gets fun as it gets longer and longer as it gets thinner and thinner. The kids become great sets of hands keeping the pasta off the floor....

We sliced it into fettuccine then hung it up to dry on the pasta tree

Lastly sweep and mop the floor to remove excess flour, as it tends to go all over the place.
I made a mince and tomato sauce for my sisters' family for their dinner. A nice surprise to come home from work to dinner made.

I've Been Busy.....

I know it's been awhile since I wrote but I have been busy with both my parents in and out of hospital,
I've been looking after my niece and nephew for my sister during a career change she has been undertaking and still is. It's amazing just how busy I have suddenly become looking after and caring for people.

My garden is taking off with the spring season, I will post photos soon. I have been very busy cooking and making food for us as well as others, more details will follow.

We have had a change of sport season with our son as well, Rugby gone and the cricket season has started with gusto. Harry has been playing Saturday and Sunday for the last 2 weeks and will play 2 days every weekend for the next 4. This requires a chilly bin full of delicious and healthy food to last the 8 hour day. Both Tim and I love spending the days sitting in the sun watching our boy play, but as you can imagine not a lot else gets done, so I end up playing catch up for the rest of the week.

Will post more details of some of the fun I have been up to soon.