With Phoebe's 7th birthday last week, I thought I'd put together a little montage of her first seven years. It's a little long, but that's what they say about tall guys.
* Note: I never realized that YouTube couldn't take videos over 10 minutes long, which is why I had to post in this format. Sorry for the small screen. I guess if I didn't get carried away and make a freaking 14 minute video.... (but I love my little girl so much I couldn't resist!)
For Christmas, I was the lucky recipient of a set of pasta roller attachments for my Kitchen Aid mixer. Now some of you might say, "so what?," but I say, "WOO HOO!"
Making fresh pasta is very simple and the apparatus (apparati?) are easy to use. Pasta dough, depending on what you want to make, is essentially flour and water. You can use different kinds of flour, add eggs and/or olive oil among other things. 
My first several batches were made from semolina flour, water, and eggs. The first part is rolling it out, then get it to the right thickness, then cut it to the size you want (spaghetti or fettucine). I tell ya, there's absolutely nothing like fresh pasta. With the first batches, I made fettuccine with homemade Alfredo sauce (another easy recipe of butter, cream, and Parmesan). 
