We all just spent the last few hours making pasta, and here are the fruits of our labor:
This was a good idea, if I don’t say so myself. We have sundried tomato linguini, regular pasta, some basil pasta, some chive and cracked pepper pasta, and another I am forgetting. A good time, and everyone enjoyed participating.
We’re boiling the water now.
LT
Beauty. Made pasta wit a girlfriend in the 80s. Hand-cut every freaking piece. There was pasta on towels in several rooms in the house.
hamletta
Yum!
That is all.
Alex S.
Meh, and I thought you were laughing hysterically at the DDay thread.
quannlace
Man, Cole. Considering the weather we’ve had on the east coast the past couple days, you’re lucky to avoid a sudden cloud burst. Or a flock of birds passing by.
Roger Moore
Looks good. I just finished making some ginger creme brulee- or the custard that will turn into ginger creme brulee once there’s burnt sugar on top- and I’ve started on some sourdough and some pinto beans. Weekends are great for cooking.
AliceBlue
Looks and sounds delicious. Mangi!
srv
This is so elitist. But I’m going to research pasta making now. The stuff I like is really expensive.
MikeJ
Cole has joined the BBC.
asiangrrlMN
Um, who the fuck is ‘we all’? Surely you are not talking about Rosie, Lily, and Tunch (moar pics!).
Cat Lady
Comments are borked on Chrome, but the pasta says Giovanni FTW.
jl
@9 asiangrrlMN – June 18, 2011 | 7:50 pm
If Rosie and Tunch helped Cole make food, all you would have are pictures of pets after it was done.
gimme gimme gimme! pet pix! pet pix! pet pix!
mr. whipple
You said something about cranking. Get a Kitchenaide mixer and the pasta attachment. You’ll need a good stand mixer, anyway.
JPL
Mike J @ 8…hahaha..
John Weiss
Success! Pretty, too.
PurpleGirl
Looks good Cole. Tried making pasta with a boyfriend once. Guy would buy any gadget he could and try it out. I don’t think we made pasta again after the first try. Not that it didn’t turn out okay, but I think it was more work than he thought.
stuckinred
asiangrrlMN –
Up early!
Poopyman
OT, but as soon as Rep Ellison’s speech comes up on n
nN or DK, WATCH IT!
Mr Stagger Lee
Ok what wine do you serve with this homemade pasta, or does it require what sauce is used? Is it considered bad taste to serve it with Sailor Jerry’s rum?
Roger Moore
@Sister Rusty Pitchfork of Decency:
Cole had some kind of pasta making party; he talked about planning it on one of the open threads yesterday. How can you expect to keep up with the events in a soap opera if you don’t watch each and every episode?
Bort
I”m thinking of cracking open a package of ramen myself.
RandyH
John-
If you are using All-Purpose Flour, try using Bread Flour instead. It makes a tougher, stronger, chewier pasta with its higher protein (gluten.) You can get it at most grocery stores but they really overcharge for it. It’s also available at Costco, maybe Sam’s Club, your local Cash-N-Carry store, etc that supply the food service industry where it will be in really BIG bags (but at a great price.)
Just a tip.
I love making fresh pasta, especially making Ravioli or Tortellini. Manicotti is great, too.
TaMara (BHF)
Had a pasta party once, was lots of fun and the pasta turned out okay despite all the wine (in us, not the pasta). Looks good.
EDIT: Mentioned in a thread yesterday, but comment got ated (FYWP). I bought a Vitamix (finally) yesterday. Looking forward to lots of fun. Just wondering if anyone else has one…
Roger Moore
@RandyH:
Watch out with any flour, though; you want to get the unbleached kind and most of the good deals are on bleached. You can also try making a more traditional Italian style by going with semolina and water rather than regular flour with eggs. The semolina kind requires more kneading (or passes through the pasta maker) but it’s really good and is a better choice if you’re going to try drying it at home.
And BTW John, if it’s a Pasta Revolution, you need to have a theme color; it seems to be mandatory for any kind of Revolution these days. If you make a big enough thing about it, maybe you can convince Sully to change the color scheme of his blog in sympathy.
Linkmeister
My bread machine recipe for Pizza suggests semolina flour for a chewier crust, as well as for pasta in general.
Ken
Good thing the photo had captions, it looked like a pic of laundry.
We had a delicious pasta concoction tonight, and just finishing off the last glass of wine.
Yutsano
I just have one question:
When’s dinner?
lamh34
I’m watching “Why We Laugh: Black Comedians” doc from 2008.
It reminded me how funny Bill Cosby’s stand-up was. I tend to forget and I always remember the Cosby show.
Bill Cosby – Grandparents.
rikyrah
looks delicious…..
fresh pasta….yum……
jeffreyw
I grilled a couple burgers.
jeffreyw
Made a couple of twice baked for the sides.
Yutsano
@jeffreyw: Jeez. My last culinary adventure was making spanakopita. They were gawjuss. And I didn’t take pictures dammit. I haz fail.
Gatsby
Why is the pasta hanging out outside? Is it what is recommended?
lamh34
Of course no history of Black Comedy would be good without Richard Pryor. Of course their are soooo many classics from Pryor, but this one is almost “nostradomus”-like in it’s vision of the future.
Richard Pryor – Mr President
mr. whipple
You got to hang it for a bit to dry and season, and most homes don’t have clotheslines in the kitchen. (Insert obligatory WV joke.)
TaMara (BHF)
@John Cole at top – was there any ravioli made? Or did you stick with the flat noodles?
Sarah Proud and Tall
Can someone summarise the D Day thread for me? I’m an old woman and I suspect it might kill me if I actually have to read the whole thing,
jeffreyw
Annie-0, skunk-1
Always keep the skunk remedy to hand.
Litlebritdifrnt
Can anyone explain to me the abject lack of Cannelloni in the US? I absolutely adore Cannelloni but can never get the shells in the US and if I can find it pre-cooked it is always stuffed with cheese and stuff. The Cannelloni I know from the UK comes stuffed with a rich meat sauce (pretty much a spaghetti sauce) and then dusted with cheese, what is up with that? Whenever I try to find it they try to slough me off with Manicotti which is NOT THE SAME THING. Whenever I went to an Italian Restaurant in the UK I would always order Cannelloni, (and a cracklingly cold Chablis, what the hell happened to Chablis? did all the grapes die or something?)
kd bart
RIP CLARENCE CLEMONS!!!!!
You’ll be missed!!!
Roger Moore
@Sarah Proud and Tall:
It was basically the Obots vs. the Firebaggers for however many posts. Boring unless you were ensnared in the flamage.
lamh34
@lamh
I especially like the part where the black reporter guys says “As-Salamu Alaykum” to Pryor’s “President” and “President Pryor” smoothly answers back “Wa laikum As Salaam!”. Although I’m sure Obama can respond just as smoothly, but rethugs would have conniption fits I’m sure
nitpicker
Recipes, please!
Sarah Proud and Tall
@Roger Moore:
So 500 posts of mostly incoherent screaming then?
Yutsano
SP & T: Mostly. But Kay did try to come in and inject some common sense. It doesn’t appear to be working however.
Mike E
@jeffreyw
I see you prefer a pressed burger too–makes for a better built sammich!
jane from hell
Has JC suffered a naked, pasta-related accident yet?
John Weiss
@Litlebritdifrnt:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_10?url=search-alias%3Dgrocery&field-keywords=cannelloni&sprefix=cannelloni
stuckinred
The Boss intro’s CC.
JPL
Yutsano @ 45.. I’m shocked, just shocked that they weren’t able to understand Kay’s comment. I actually think that Cole writes certain posts just to increase the amount on site hits. If that is the case, it works.
lamh34
Can’t talk Black Comedy without Eddie Murphy…NSFW
Eddie Murphy delerious ice cream skit
“You wanna eat some of my ice cream…Wanna lick…psyche”
Ok, how about I STILL sing this song on a hot day whenever I get an ice cream cone!!!!
stuckinred
Clarence, the Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore.
Roger Moore
@Sarah Proud and Tall:
That about gets it. You didn’t miss much.
jeffreyw
@Mike E:
Yeah, these were hand pressed to about 4-1/2 to 5 inches, about 1/2″ thick. Do it on parchment paper or the like so they don’t fall apart on you as you take them to the griddle. I cut the paper into burger sized squares and stack them until the iron is hot.
opal
@Sarah Proud and Tall
It’s best forgotten.
I’d advise your nominal staff to serve a variety of smoked meats and strong whiskey.
stuckinred
Sarah Proud and Tall
Firedoglake blows dead dogs.
lamh34
Can’t talk about Black Comedy without Chris Rock…
Classic Rock…seriously, this is how I learned that “tossing a salda” may not mean what I think it does in certain context…lol
Chris Rock Toss Salad man
wes
that looks hecka good.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
the last time i made pasta the playdoh kept getting stuck and jamming the crank. i said fuck it, lets make lasagna, even back then, i had upper-management potential.
hamletta
Skunk remedy? You mean tomato juice?
That’s what I learned from The Partridge Family, anyway.
Mike Wilson
Beautiful. The last time I did that, leaving it on a low line to dry, I turned by back for a congratulatory quaff of a cab merlot, and the fucking dog ate every last one. A cautionary tale. Mike in Queensland
JPL
John’s wine is sitting on a couple of containers of ????
I know that in WV it’s acceptable to keep all your leftovers outside including rusty cars that haven’t been driven in 40 years but I’m curious about the containers.
Also, too…the Rangers just scored.. If there really is a score he’d let the Braves win. IMO
stuckinred
Click on it, it’s dogfood.
nodakfarmboy
@RandyH
Bread Flour!? Lord help me, but this son of Durum farmer is about to have a heart attack.
Semolina, my friends. Durum wheat flour. THAT is what you use to make the finest pasta. And, if you can pick up some US produced product, it most likely came from North Dakota, which will bring a smile to my face.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semolina
JPL
Stuckinred..That’s what it looked like. Maybe it’s a new type of appetizer for parties up in the mountains.
stuckinred
nodakfarmboy
Semolina pilchard
climbing up the Eiffel tower
Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna
Man, you should have seen them kicking
Edgar Allan Poe
JPL
OT..Now the Braves are just taking wild swings to see how quickly they can be called out. GEE..
stuckinred
JPL, he’s got a shiv and a lighter there too.
stuckinred
Damn, Uggla hit a rope.
Phyllis
@62 JPL: We’re prolly gonna lose this one too. Be glad to see the back of these Rangers.
We’re just now getting the rain in Southeast SC that delayed the game. We sure need it.
stuckinred
It only lasted 10 minutes in Athens!
scottinnj
Sad day for those of us who grew up Jersey – Clarence clemons dead at 69
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/arts/music/clarence-clemons-e-street-band-saxophonist-dies-at-69.html?hp
TooManyJens
Jane Hamsher must be crying:
http://twitter.com/#!/ch3ryl/statuses/82263053193838592
jeffreyw
Skunk Remedy
Yutsano
Oh my. Poor Herman. Can’t seem to keep a consistent position to save his life. Wonder how much attention this will get?
JPL
Stuckinred, I still can’t figure out why our tornado siren went off. There was one nasty looking cloud but it passed over. We did get a nice rain though.
TooManyJens, that is good news indeed and I’m sure that will be the headline on Huffington.
Just Some Fuckhead
@SP&T:
Pretty usual 500+ thread. Stuck, eemom, ABL and Allan went apeshit, lashed out, called names, used a lot of profanity. Everyone else kept it lowkey and had a decent discussion because we might get banned.
min
You should try spinach pasta next time – very tender and cooks in a flash.
Tonight had chicken in tarragon mustard cream sauce and green (spinach and green onion) pancakes with lime butter (from Ottolenghi’s Plenty).
Sarah Proud and Tall
@JSF:
I imagine you were playing peacemaker as usual?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I grew up in Chicago, and I’m sad.
RIP, Big Man
Just Some Fuckhead
@SP&T:
Honestly, I was just trying to stay out of Stuck’s line of fire. You know how he gets.
TaMara (BHF)
Clarence Clemons, you will be missed. The lights just dimmed a bit in Jersey.
stuckinred
Just Some Fuckhead
What bullshit.
sistermoon
RIP, Big Man
Just Some Fuckhead
@stuckinred
Don’t make me drive down there and kick yer skinny decrepit old ass.
PurpleGirl
efgoldman @ 53: LOL.
stuckinred
Just Some Fuckhead
Bring it schmuck. I made 2 comments on that thread and they were direct responses to ASB. Get your story straight.
TooManyJens
@Yutsano:
Oh, well, that’s OK then. It’s not that he’s prejudiced against Muslims, it’s just that “violent” is the first thing that comes to mind when he thinks of them!
Republicans really hate it when you quote the things they actually said. When are they going to learn about Youtube and Google?
Just Some Fuckhead
Who said anything about you, clown?
stuckinred
You’re such a moron. I’m going back to Lebowski.
Just Some Fuckhead
@stuckinread
You thought I said you when I clearly said Stuck and *I’m* the moron? You prolly need to start drinking again.
Sarah Proud and Tall
@ JSF:
Let me guess. Then Uncle Clarence said something sensible and coherent which was wildly misinterpreted by everone else, Cornerstone pleaded for everyone to get along and it all went downhill from there?
You poor misunderstood Fuckhead.
Just Some Fuckhead
@SP&T:
Yes, poor UCT was making the usual suspects lash out against their will. It was terrible watching him manipulate them like that.
All I could do was bite my fist.
ETA: If we could somehow get UCT banned, I’m sure the unpleasantness will just magically vanish.
BettyPageisaBlonde
My partner and I held our little boy, Aeneas, as he passed away today at the vet. It’s super heartbreaking. Cancer is a bitch.
I don’t mean to be a bummer, but I needed to say something somewhere to people who appreciate how important our animals are to us.
We’ll read some Catullus in Latin tonight, cry alot, and hold each other as we fall asleep.
Give your kids a little extra love tonight.
“passer mortuus est”
Violet
RIP, Big Man. Won’t be the same without you.
TooManyJens
BettyPageisaBlonde, I’m sorry for your loss.
stuckinred
BettyPageisaBlonde
I think someone here posted this here a while back but it doesn’t really matter, I hope it strikes a chord:
We who choose to surround ourselves
with lives even more temporary than our
own, live within a fragile circle;
easily and often breached.
Unable to accept its awful gaps,
we would still live no other way.
We cherish memory as the only
certain immortality, never fully
understanding the necessary plan.
— Irving Townsend
Sarah Proud and Tall
@ Yutsano:
If you hear from Cerberus about a bleg for his friend let me know and I will happily post it.
Sarah Proud and Tall
@ Betty Page
I’m sorry to hear about Aeneas. My sympathies and best wishes.
Fax Paladin
Mmm, pasta! It’s always best when it’s fresh-picked.
MikeJ
Yutsy @76, I wonder if Cain would make “christians” undergo special scrutiny, what with their history of terrorists like Eric Rudolph and Scott Roeder.
I wouldn’t let the fuckers on airplanes.
Corner Stone
@SP&T #92
Why are you trying to slander me like that? I thought we had something special.
MikeJ
Fax Paladin, you’re only 92 comments late.
Corner Stone
@Yutsano
Shouldn’t you be scolding us morally? And lecturing us all about how our privilege is showing?
And how sick it makes you.
BettyPageisaBlonde
@stuckinred – Thank you for that.
Everyone else who responded, thank you too.
Gin & Tonic
No pasta, but more fresh rhubarb from the farmer’s market today, so I made a cantaloupe-rhubarb chutney to go with the grilled pork chops. Came out quite well, and two jars got put away for later.
With many Italian markets in the area, making fresh pasta just seemed like it wouldn’t pass the cost-benefit analysis.
Just Some Fuckhead
@WhatTheFuckDoesThatEvenMean?
I feel stupid for saying Cain might catch fire with the Huckabee fanbase. I never dreamed he was soft on Muslimry.
JPL
Betty Page, I gave the kids extra hugs. Miss Moxie and my son’s cat Mr. Alice, who has become a permanent fixture, aren’t sure why I had tears in my eyes when I hugged them but they appreciate the extra attention. Maybe not Alice since he just walked away but that’s a cat for you.
Yutsano
@MikeJ: That would require, oh, what’s the word I’m looking for, oh yeah, consistency. And it would be just as unconstitutional if he did it to Christians as much as Muslims. Herman got caught saying something stupid, now he’s trying to act as if the words were put in his mouth. His base will love him for it. The rest of the country, harder to determine.
@<a href="scenes-from-the-pasta-revolution/#comment-2637246″>JSF: Seriously. You think you know someone, then they go all squishy on you like that. Or maybe Willard has some sort of flip-flop disease that is contagious.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Yutsano:
Don’t even try to slime Mittens with the stench of Herman Yet Another Secret Muslim Cain. Mittens was asked the same question in 2008 and said no way in hell would he appoint a Muslim to the cabinet.
He’s not clear on a lot of hard shit but he knows the answers to the easy questions.
MikeJ
G&T & 106: Walla Wallas with the greens attached at the local farmers'[1] market. They had Rainier cherries, but they didn’t look that great. I hope that next week’s will be better, or the guy with the pickup at the side of the road during the week will have better quality.
[1] farmer’s or farmers’? Probably farmer’s so that people won’t get confused and pronounce it “farmers prime”.
Yutsano
@JSF: Waitaminute. Willard took..A POSITION?? Like a hard and fast hill-I-will-die-on-and-never-relenquish POSITION?? Couch of fainting to room 215 STAT!!
Just Some Fuckhead
@Yutsano:
Nah, it was Huckabee.. gotcha, didn’t I? Heh.
Yutsano
@JSF: Well played, good Fuckhead, well played. If it weren’t for the fact that strange things have happened this whole primary season, it would indeed be plausible. I’m already missing Huckleberry dammit.
opal
@Just Some Fuckhead
So, who’s left in the cracker pack?
And by left, I mean right for America. Any names I would recognize?
Just Some Fuckhead
@opal:
There’s just me, Corner Stone and cbear. We wanted Lil Bobby Lobbers to join but he was reportedly beige-ish Muslimmy so we all decided just to go our own ways rather than rewrite the bylaws and stuff. Plus, Lobbers was more than a little cantankerous. When yer planning a cross burning, you can’t be worried about one asshole running off and huffing all the gasoline.
PS. We’re still taking new member applications but we’re keeping it hushhush while everyone’s all het up on the race thing around here.
Elie
All I am going to say is that all that pasta is going to make y’alls butts big.
Eat it today, wear it tomorrow — but enjoy! (which I do despite big butt pathology risk)
pjcamp
Soon, you’re going to have pigeon doo pasta.
Yum.
A Humble Lurker
@Corner Stone
I didn’t know you were into that, but I think that’s more Sarah’s specialty than Yutsano’s. If you ask her real nice, she might even give you the whip stiletto combo package. That’s if you ask nice, and eat all your vegetables like a good little boy/girl/thing.
Brachiator
Amen
evap
I make pasta all the time, I have an Italian pasta machine (hand-cranked). It’s great to make your own ravioli, since you can tweak the filling to be exactly the way you like it.
Flour: “semolina flour” is misleading, since this usually means a coarse grind (in the U.S.), which you definitely don’t want. What you want is a very hard wheat flour, but very finely ground (semolina is a hard wheat). Look for Italian pasta flour, labaled 00 (this means very finely ground), I can find it here (in Atlanta) in gourmet stores and the like. It’s very powdery, like baby powder, and makes the best pasta. I sometimes mix it half and half with finely ground whole wheat flour for a healthier, but still incredibly tasty, pasta.
Corner Stone
@A Humble Lurker
Oh, I’m into that kind of thing alright! Nothing, and I mean nothing, gets my engines revving like an uninventive moral scold giving a good general malaise-inducing moral scolding.
And let me tell you something, nobody does the boring moral scold like Yutz does the boring moral scold.