Pasta disaster!

Ahhh how confident and naive we were, armed with our brand new 'PastaSmack' pasta machine and a bag of Tipo '00' flour.




It all seemed so simple: make pasta dough, leave in the fridge for a bit, start cranking the handle. What could possibly go wrong? It all went well to begin with, the dough was easy to make and even looked pretty professional.



30 mins later, we got the dough out of the fridge, set up the magical machine and then proceeded to try and feed the entire ball of (too sticky) dough the wrong way through the machine on its finest setting. Hmmmmm.

I feel we were possibly victims of our own disorganisation. Actually, I really think we were victims of Jamie Oliver's rubbish recipe - too many eggs!

Anyway, 1 hour, 3 arguments and nearly a kilo of pasta flour later we finally got the hang of it and managed to make enough pasta for a bowl of fettucine alla carbonara, and it was suprisingly tasty!