2.17.2008

Pasta Extravaganza

After touting the virtues of celebrating a private Valentine's for all the right reasons, I'm going to be a total hypocrite and share photos from Ryan and I's V-day celebration. We used the holiday as an excuse to buy some fresh tulips and two bottles of good wine, and to finally use the pasta attachment for Bert that Liz and David got us as a wedding gift. (Yay!) Below is a photo essay of the glutinous evening.

First, we make the mix the ingredients for the spinach pasta dough in the food processor. Next, we roll it into little balls. (I'm so immature. That made me giggle.)


Then, we flatten it out a bit with a rolling pin, followed by the real fun. Here's Bert working his flattening magic:


Next, I get the uber fun part of running the thin dough through the pasta cutter attachment:


Check out that fettuccine..

While the pasta cooks, I whip up the vodka cream sauce. Delicious...

This is one serious feast:

Close-ups of the tulips:

Afterwards, we were stuffed. (And no, Siena didn't get to try any pasta. Poor girl.)


Puppy close-up:

3 comments:

miss.supafly said...

Wow! That pasta looks great! Michael got that attachment for his mixer too, we just haven't put it to use yet -- maybe we will now!

Tish said...

that puppy makes my heart warm...as well as green pasta ; )

you had a lovely v day celebration...there's nothing hypocritical about that...now if you would have said "the love my man has for me is way cooler than any love coming your way" i might have to drop kick ya ;)

elizabethjune said...

i'm so glad that the pasta attachment and bert got along!

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