I made fresh pasta noodles! Next time I need a pasta team! Rolling and kneading turned out to be quite the workout, but the taste of fresh noodles are worth every ounce of effort. If I could provide a tip here, I think the key is to stay patient. My dough in the very beginning was a sticky glob of yolky mess — sticking to the counter and all up in my hands. This created some mild panic, but I realized I could add flour to dry up and work the dough into the silky smooth ball it needs to be. At one point, I even resorted to scraping up the counter with a fork to get the muck into my dough ball. So my simple pasta wisdom that I bestow onto you is — Stay calm, add flour, and keep kneading.
I also tried another recipe using bread flour and the results were quite different. The dough comes out a little tougher and wasn’t as easy to roll out by hand, so if you’re going the old school mamma-jamma style with a rolling pin, make sure you use the “00” flour. This recipe makes quite a bit so to preserve the rest of the noodles, I simply portioned them out in Tupperware and put them into the freezer. Also if you wanna dig deeper, I referenced this Tasty video to learn the recipe and make my noodles. Her VO, gives some solid pasta-making tips. OK, enough words. Check out my noods.
There are basically four ingredients: “00” Flour, Eggs, Salt, EVOO
Here’s a list:
2 cups Caputo '00' grade pasta flour
1 pinch salt
3 large eggs
5 large egg yolks
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
And here’s the recipe and steps:
Crack eggs in a bowl (separate the 5 yolks)
Make a well with flour/pinch of salt
Pour egg + EVOO into well
Mix in gradually, combine into a dough
Knead for 10-15 minutes until silky smooth (Poke the dough, should spring back)
Let it rest for 30 min (Poke again, should not spring back)
Slice up dough into sections
Flour surface and roll out the dough
Fold it like a letter to keep it straight
Roll dough thin enough to see your hand through it
Fold in a large loose roll, cut & dust with flour
Enjoy your fresh pasta!
I use Adobe Premiere Pro for all of my editing. And thanks to watching the Adobe Max conference this week, I was feeling super speedy with some fresh new editing tips and shortcuts. Below is the shorter cutdown version for Instagram.
To share a little bit of how I planned for the shoot and kept myself on track. Here are my storyboard or “beatboard” panels This is super helpful while I’m trying to juggle recipe steps and a shot list while filming. I hang this on a nearby wall behind the camera setup and check it out during the shoot to make sure I’m getting what I need.
Lastly, on day two of my pasta making weekend I setup a little photoshoot to capture the beauty of my raw noods and share with the world of stock photography. See here for a collection of my noods for sale!
