Comments on JenEpting.com: New Project: Making homemade pasta

TRAGIC. that is totally tragic. try, try again!!! ...

2010-01-27T08:45:52.949-05:00

TRAGIC. that is totally tragic. try, try again!!! dani and i bought, heh, yes, bought, fresh pasta from arthur ave in the bronx and decided that fresh pasta is the only way to go. it's so frickkin delicious.

my most recent food gaffe was also quite dramatic: i was making pecan pie for dani's birthday, and everything was going swimmingly, and i was chatting away on the phone as i completed the final step before baking, which is to put the pecans in the batter. instead of 1 and a half cups of nuts, i put in 1 and a half BAGS. each bag, mind you, was over 4 cups. ummmmm, i basically made pecan brittle, and it was super dissapointing!!

Don't give up on Alice Waters! She's amaz...

2010-01-25T13:32:38.247-05:00

Don't give up on Alice Waters! She's amazing. Though I agree with you-- anything which involves dough can be risky. When Sarah and our house mate Dave make pasta they use one of these things to help with the drying:

http://www.amazon.com/Norpro-1048-Pasta-Drying-Rack/dp/B00004UE7U

Though I am sure, with some creativity, you could fashion something just as good :-)

xoxo to you Chris and Oscar

Oh no! I see what happened.... So, it's actu...

2010-01-25T10:21:26.084-05:00

Oh no! I see what happened.... So, it's actually okay, and can be a good thing, to leave your pasta for a bit before cooking it. Just make sure to lay it out so that the pieces are separated before you walk away. :)

I'm impressed that you pushed through and served it up anyway, though! Great advice from Dary--that kind of support is awesome. I mean, it can be tough when something doesn't turn out how you expected, and then it suddenly feels like this huge failure and you wind up on the kitchen floor in tears questioning your self-worth and facing the realization that you're now going to starve to death because there's just NO way you could ever eat this awful creation! Um, not that that's ever happened to me...just something I heard once.

It's just so frustrating when you spend all da...

2010-01-24T22:12:55.619-05:00

It's just so frustrating when you spend all day cooking something and it comes out like crap (although, your noodles - even in block form - look tasty)! I made a white bean soup and soaked the beans overnight and then cooked them for hours and they didn't taste any better than just opening up a can! It was just a big 'ol waste of time! Cooking is always educational... mostly when it's not very tasty!