Friday, March 6, 2009

Grind Your Own Grain Noodles

So when we moved into our house, the previous owners left a few things behind including a noodle maker. It was still unused in the box and very old. We decided to try it out since we are going strictly whole, grind our own grains now. My blood sugar has given me too many problems so we are starting a new lifestyle... Back to the noodle maker-We decided it would be Kevin's job to make noodles since he loves pasta and I was making everything else!
This was truly an experience. We have no idea how noodle dough is supposed to look and so we followed the directions to near disaster. I don't think there was any way that I could have pushed those spaghetti noodles out with how we made the dough. The kids sure enjoyed it but Kevin definitely got his workout and we decided that we needed to try it again to see if we could make it easier.
In the end we made a small amount of spaghetti noodles and I ended up rolling out the dough to cut lasagna noodles. We do love lasagna so at least we know we can do that easily, however we will see how often we have spaghetti!

3 comments:

Rachel said...

Pah! Kevin? Have trouble? Ha! He'll just take it out to the garage and gear it down as only Kevin can.

Elisa said...

Hey, I found that attachment for the kitchenaid. Yeah, it's a little more expensive than I thought, but still looks cool! (If you LOVE pasta). http://www.amazon.com/Kitchenaid-KPRA-Roller-Cutter-Attachment/dp/B000KPULR2/ref=combo_pack_i_4

Annie Sunshine said...

sounds like a good healthy way to be. good job. hope your speghetti is easier next time.