Okay...this wasn't the first time I have made pasta...but this time I thought I would cheat and make the dough in my my mixer and let it do all of the work of kneading. This turned out to be a huge mistake. I measured everything out and tried to 'set it and forget it!' When I went back to have a look it was basically just dry pebbles of dough rolling around in the bowl. I dumped it out and tried to get it to loosen up and hold together, but to no avail. It ended up feeling like cement and I had to dump the whole thing and start again from scratch. There went 6 eggs....I hate wasting food like that.
I think the problem is that when you are mixing it by hand, you just don't incorporate the flour that you don't need and when you do it in the machine you don't get that sense of taste. Pretty sure you could get it to work, but I've decided it isn't worth the effort!! So I started again and rolled out some lasagna sheets and finished up a lasagna that I'm making for a friend. Which seemed like a good idea at the time, but I got pretty experimental and I'm not sure it is going to be any good. I know she will be honest with me, and I hope at the very least it isn't really horrible. I used artichoke hearts and I think I should have diced them up or something. I also tried to used all roasted tomatoes rather than sauce, and I don't think it was necessarily the right choice. In the end I dumped some canned sauce over it just so it wouldn't be too dry. This bothers me somewhat...but we shall see.
Tomorrow I am going to do ravioli with the rest of the dough that I didn't roll out. I have an idea for a roasted beet and goat cheese filling, with some kind of orange creme fraiche sauce.
I will let you know how it turns out.
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