I got to use the pasta maker on some white rice flour pasta, and it turned out, resonantly well, for the first time out.

Pasta maker

I thought, wrongly, that this machine would do it all, flatten the dough, and make it into strips, and all that stuff. My sweetie, who got it for me, kept urging me to watch the youtube video on it. If you watch it, it will all make sense. But I hate watching instructions, i would rather read, so i read as much as i could, and it appears that what this does, at least the basic stuff, is flatten the dough.

And, here is the kicker, you have to let it go through several times, at smaller and smaller widths, so that it gets flatter. Easier than trying to do ti with a rolling pin, but not much nicer looking, just thinner.

Draining pasta

So, what was the verdict? Cartoonist like it enough to pack it in her lunch for school, and the marinara sauce I made seemed to help as well.

I even at a little of it when I was ill, but not too much, not knowing when I would be well again, and no knowing if Cartoonist would want to make anything on her own, while I was ill.

“Oh, it’s a squirrel proof feeder”, she said.

I told her it felt very heavy. I should have known it was really a present for me, when she told me to open it, even though I had no interest in a squirrel feeder. I told her I would do it later. She insisted.

Not a squirrel feeder

I opened it, and discovered one more gadget to add to my arsenal, a pasta maker. She had bought it for me because of the pasta I had cut by hand, that I served her when she last visited.  I was going to leave it in its box, but I did finally open it, and discovered that the instructions are in Italian.

I’ll have to sit down and read the English version, but that can wait. I have another mission, which I will talk about a little later this week, which is, how do I use up all the veggies and fruit I’ve been getting, before it goes bad.