Earlier this summer, I spent the day making some really awesome pasta sauce from a family recipe of Nick DeLucca. It was so good that I really wanted some special pasta to go with it. I am always hearing about how tasty homemade pasta is, so I decided to try it. I didn't have any fancy equipment, so I made it the old fashioned way: rolling it out by hand. Of course I don't have the patience or stamina to make my dough really thin. And since I cut the pasta by hand it was a bit irregular in shape. Despite the fact that it was a bit large it was very good. So the next thing I knew, Michael had purchased the Pasta Excellence Set for my Kitchen Aid. The first time using it was for our monthly grad student get together where I made chicken and dumplings. It was so easy to roll out the dough to the perfect thickness. In fact, this was the first time I was able to make the recipe so that I enjoyed it as much as when my dad makes it.Before my next attempt at making pasta, I decided that I needed a real pasta drying rack. I purchased a wood base and some dowels from Lowes. With Michael's help, I drilled holes through the largest dowel and slid the smaller ones through. The holes were tight enough that I did not need to do anything to secure the through rods. Then I stained it and finished it off with a coat of polyurethane.
