Pasta Machine

One of the gifts for my birthday was a Wish Gift card. I headed for Big W and bought myself a pasta machine, it has been on my list of 'things to buy' for a while.

Brett's not home for tea tonight, he's one his way home from Melbourne, doing a run in the truck with a load of scrap metal to Smorgons, for my brothers. Luckily they have given him a job to tie us over. With Gunns  going into administration, there is no work. It really has affected milling and the transportation of wood chip in our region. From the actual wood chippers, to truck companies, mill employees and the poor small businesses on the route, like delis and fuel stations. I seriously hope things get back to normal, very soon.

I took some left over pasta sauce from the freezer for tea, it's just me and the girls. If there is anything I don't have trouble getting Izzy to eat, it is pasta. When Summer had her sleep today, I got to making some, of course, whether I liked it or not, Izzy helped.

 Izzy warmed up the pasta machine while the dough rested. She was having a ball.

 I was killin' it, Curtis Stone style. OK now I'm just showing off ;P

 It cuts too!! Much easier and less time consuming than the way I was doing it before.

Impossible Pie - Open Slather

Black chook, Red chook and Brown chook -  this is what Izzy calls them and it's stuck

I originally bought two chooks, black chook and brown chook. When I mentioned to Brett that I wanted to get chooks, he said everything in the negative, but I had made my mind up, and as usual I ignored him and did it anyway. Low and behold a month later he sneakily went and bought another one! I think he was impressed that we were getting eggs and he wanted more. I had to explain to him that chooks only lay one egg a day, I think he thought we should be getting more eggs from two chooks. Idiot. So now we are getting three eggs a day, and with at least a dozen eggs in the fridge, sometimes more at any given time, I'm always looking to use them up. 

Ann from Help!! I'm Stuck!! stole provided a recipe for mini muffins in last weeks link up, and we had them for lunch during the week. I also made a recipe from her blog too, for impossible pie. I had my own recipe I'd found somewhere that I'd been making for ages, but I gave hers a go. I used silverbeet instead of the zucchini and used up bits and pieces of three different cheese that were in the fridge. It turned out beautifully, and my husband even went as far as to say that he liked it better than mine! O. K.  then.......I have to admit I'll be using it from now on and throwing my old recipe away.

Home made pasta