the hair of an angel (or so I'd like to think)

What a weekend! Magical weather. Swimming at the beach. Drinking cold beer.  Eating tasty treats.  Solving the world's problems over a glass of delicious Pinot. General mucking about. 

Now for this week...

Have you ever made fresh pasta? If not, you must give it a go - it's just the best and it is so simple!! 

On the weekend we had homemade angel hair tossed in a family favourite – prawns, chilli, tomato, garlic, basil and olive oil.

Things you need:

5 x Large Eggs

500 grams of type ‘00’ Flour (super fine flour)

Pinch of Salt

This ratio will give you enough pasta for 6 - 8 hungry people.  The general idea is to use one large egg per 100gms of flour so you can simply increase or decrease the ingredients as you need.  For a more funky colour, you can simply add more egg yolks. 

Although the traditional method is to mix the dough by hand I cheated by using the KitchenAid Mix Master.  I don't think it makes too much of a difference to the taste but it makes the clean up easier and minimises the risk of a 'blow out' where you are confronted by a torrent of eggs and flour surging across the kitchen bench.

It starts like this – cool, calm and collected

Then goes a little like this – controlled chaos

And ends up like this

Check back here tomorrow to see what we did with the prawns.

Happy eating!

Sam