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"I have just signed up and gone to my first function, the Pasta Class, and I had a wonderful time. This is such a great idea…!"
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"Delightful!!!…I can't wait to make more pasta!…The hands on part is awesome…The class size is perfect and the setting great. Gabriel has a perfect personality for this type of thing. Very low key but with funny stories to share! The price is just right. It includes two glasses of wine, dinner and the detailed cooking lesson. Definitely want to do more of these!"
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Individual Class: Pasta, August 26, 2002
Pasta is one of those foods we are so used to buying at the grocery store that we never realize how amazingly easy it is to make at home, and we almost never consider the incredible taste difference between fresh, homemade pasta and dried, store-bought pasta. Often people are put off by the idea of making pasta at home, thinking it will take too long, be too complicated, or require too much effort or equipment.
Nothing could be farther from the truth! Pasta is so simple to make that once our students learned how, they immediately decided to add it to the after-work dinner repertoire. In this fun individual class, we made pasta dough, mixing in some fun ingredients like squid ink and spinach for different colors, and then rolled it out. We made smoked-salmon stuffed ravioli, fettuccine, and farfalle (bow-ties), along with sauces for each. Class ended, as always, in an incredible pasta feast. Everyone left confident that they can easily make delicious pasta at home!
Pasta's not so hard when you think of it as only two ingredients, flour and eggs—or more simple yet, flour and water.
The kitchen at CC House on a sunny afternoon, set up for Pasta class.
 (Left) One student holds the pasta dough and feeds it into the pasta machine as another turns the crank.
(Above) We keep fresh herbs growing on the deck during summer so that students can pick them for use during class. These sage leaves will be fried crisp in butter for the sauce over the farfalle.
Each piece of pasta dough must be run through the machine on each one of seven settings, getting increasingly flat. The pasta is black due to the squid ink we used in it.
It was so much fun to see the pasta rolling out of the machine in ribbons for our fettuccine!
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