On Saturday, I had my first Couple’s Pasta Course. It was a blast! We had dough spread from one end of the house to the other – and boy did it smell great. It helped to have such enthusiastic students as well – they weren’t afraid of anything! I love students like that!
We made rigatoni and fusilli using the new KitchenAid Pasta Press. I can’t think of enough adjectives to tell you how amazing this contraption is! I believe it is a redesign of their original pasta press – all the kinks worked out, of course! Easy to assemble, a breeze to operate, and believe it or not – easy clean up. We had no issues at all – the pasta extruded just as it was meant to – perfectly!
We also made tortellini, by both rolling out the dough by hand (everyone should know how!) and also using my Atlas roller (so much easier!) – you should have seen the pile of pasta these folks left with!
Before the end of the evening, we enjoyed the homemade rigatoni, by turning it into my favorite Rigatoni Amalfi recipe with Peas and Asparagus, as well as a plateful of Orzo with Mushrooms and Fontina. Add a dessert and salad – quite a nice night!
I hope to do the class again in the very near future, so please email me if you are interested in spending the day together making some Italian goodness!
Because I love you, here is a link to a few of my favorite Italian inspired dishes, including a Lasagna Amalfi version on the rigatoni we made during the class…along with a bunch of pictures of some of my Italy travels, in case you aren’t bored out of your mind already.
Click on through to enter to win the KitchenAid Attachment of YOUR CHOICE!!
(The above Pasta Press, valued at $179, Ice Cream Attachment, valued at $99, The Grain Mill, valued at $139, or the Meat Grinder, valued at $65..you pick!)
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That looks amazing…I have never considered making home made pasta till now…Guess I will need that attachment!
Pasta Press Please! I’m in my 3rd year at university. I cook more than I study. This will help me!
my homemade pasta looks pathetic!
the pasta attachement looks like you had a pro helping in the kitchen.
Home made pasta its the best thing ill ever ate, with this attachment it will be so easy, my daughter love to cook, we spend a lot of time in the kitchen just having fun
Fusilli from my KA pasta press NEVER looks like that… of course it tastes fantastic, but it rarely spirals as it looks in your photo. Any guesses as to why?
Don’t you just LOVE that attachment? We have been pasta eating maniacs! I love that you are teaching pasta making classes for couples, which you were closer to us! Looks like a blast!
I think it would definitely merit the plane, the bus, the train, and the taxi just to land in your neighborhood to take this class…it all looks wonderful.
Oh man…I am salivating now. That looks so damned good.
The pasta! That would be a awesome tool to win.
oooh! I have been wanting to make homemade pasta for a while! All those different shapes look fun.
I am now a fan of BOTH KitchenAid and She’s Becoming Doughmesstic! Love this giveaway….I would choose the ice-cream attachment! I’ve had my eye on it for a while, but haven’t been able to get one. I am only a fan of homemade ice-cream, don’t really care for store bought! So this is perfect for me!
Oh my! Now I am even more sad to have missed the class. It looks like you had a great time. Please schedule another soon and I will drag hubby even if he is dying! Well, ok, maybe not dying…I’ll just find him a good sitter and be on my merry way! The ice cream or pasta attachment would be very cool to win.
Pasta Press looks AMAZING!!!!!!!!
I would love any of those attatchments, but I have wanted to make homemade pasta for a while now.
I want the pasta attachment!
I retweeted your giveaway last week 
I would love to know what pasta recipe you used to with the attachment. I tried the recipe that came with the attacment and it did not work well. Your pasta looks great!