Fresh Egg Pasta, with Stinging Nettle and a few Wild Garlic Leaves.
Spring Greens Pasta
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Very civilized. Very civilized. Wonderful with a roast chicken.
Excellent pictures = great lesson. Everybody should learn to do as you have done.
Looks like elegant bush craft.
I roll my dough maybe the thickness of a beer mat.
Lay fine dice herbs on half of it, fold it back over and run that thru my pasta machine a couple more times.
I've done it with dried Italian Mixed Herbs = works OK if you can't get fresh.
Here, it's the 88th of January. While we have rain today, the freezing level is just above our heads.
Won't surprise me to see 2-5" fresh snow by morning. No fresh herbs to speak of!
Excellent pictures = great lesson. Everybody should learn to do as you have done.
Looks like elegant bush craft.
I roll my dough maybe the thickness of a beer mat.
Lay fine dice herbs on half of it, fold it back over and run that thru my pasta machine a couple more times.
I've done it with dried Italian Mixed Herbs = works OK if you can't get fresh.
Here, it's the 88th of January. While we have rain today, the freezing level is just above our heads.
Won't surprise me to see 2-5" fresh snow by morning. No fresh herbs to speak of!
You're on a roll with this Spring foraging
Quite inspirationaland it's putting me in the notion too.
I Have a notion ( as you say ) to try and make something everyday using something from Nature in some guise for as long as I can.
Finished ( delicious ) product. A little ham , dressed with lemon juice ,olive oil , black pepper and a little grated parmesan cheese
It looks great.
Unfortunatley Dads kitchen is set up to gas/electrocute/drown or trip any one other than him who may by some misfortune enter it. So it looks like I will not cook in a while.
And he wont eat pasta thats not a) dried, b) white, c) Spagetti. Hes more faddy than a spoiled toddler, and as he gets me the stuff I like to eat; starving him until he becomes more adventurous isnt really an option.
Plus I have brought with me vast quantities of pasta in (to him) suspicious shapes that will need to be eaten.
He lives on bread and jam and meat and two veg.
But today is a roast sunday dinner wirh my prefered cut of steak...I am not complaining.
Unfortunatley Dads kitchen is set up to gas/electrocute/drown or trip any one other than him who may by some misfortune enter it. So it looks like I will not cook in a while.
And he wont eat pasta thats not a) dried, b) white, c) Spagetti. Hes more faddy than a spoiled toddler, and as he gets me the stuff I like to eat; starving him until he becomes more adventurous isnt really an option.
Plus I have brought with me vast quantities of pasta in (to him) suspicious shapes that will need to be eaten.
He lives on bread and jam and meat and two veg.
But today is a roast sunday dinner wirh my prefered cut of steak...I am not complaining.
Sounds like my father....
Unfortunately I cannot be with mine, he is one of the highest risk individuals, and has everything that puts you on the double bolt the house door list.
Being a critical worker, I have to still be available at a drop of the hat and be anywhere I am needed, across no less than 4 counties.
Anyway going to try nettle pesto and nettle salad tomorrow, and when I get the flour, the pasta too.
