I am so proud to introduce to you my mini show on YouTube: PUTZY. I think I’ve been overloaded on “Dinner in 15-minutes or less!” and “Quick and easy meals!” Apparently those kinds of recipes are short and sweet so that you can focus on what is important. But for me, food is what’s important! I like spending time in my kitchen, and learning about what goes in to my body is a good use of time!
I am going to try (as time allows) to post a new episode once a week on Wednesdays and bring you all the cumbersome, painstaking, arduous, way-too-much work meals you (might?) also be craving. This first episode is all about fresh pasta! It also includes some bonuses like New York Metropolitan grade opera singing and Vito Corleone impersonations. I even do a pro-bono (and thus unsponsored) commercial for Ghirardelli!
Let me know what kinds of putzy stuff you make, too! I’d love to hear about it!
Fresh Pasta
Ingredients
2 cups all purpose flour
2 eggs
1/2 tsp fine sea salt
1/4 cup water
Process
Place flour and salt in a stand mixing bowl. Create a well in the middle. Crack eggs into the well and add water. Using dough hook, knead on stir or speed 1 until dough is soft and elastic, about 10 minutes. Flatten dough (about 1.5″ thick disc) on parchment or wax paper. Chill dough / allow it to rest for 20 minutes in refrigerator.
Once the dough has rested you can divide it into 6-8 equal pieces, using a bench scraper to cut it. Flatten the pieces with your hands to about 1/4″-1/2″ thickness, using flour generously to prevent dough from sticking to your hands. You can also use a rolling pin.
Run a flattened piece through the widest setting of your pasta maker. Add flour to the dough. Then run it through the next, slightly less wide setting. Add flour to dough again. Do this up to the third setting, each time making the dough a little flatter.
Then make a trifold with the dough. Return the pasta maker to the widest setting and feed the pasta dough through the rollers with the trifolds vertical. Continue running the pasta through the rollers up to the third highest setting.
Make another trifold in the opposite direction of the one you did previously. Repeat the previous step up to the fifth or sixth highest setting of your pasta maker. Pasta should be quite thin at this point.
Cut into desired shapes, adding flour to the noodles as you continue so they do not stick to each other. When dough is prepared, boil in heavily salted water for one minute, or until pasta floats to the top of the pot. Serve immediately.
Oh aren’t you just so adorable!!!
I love this new thing you are trying and excited to see upcoming new putzy episodes!!!!