Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

do any of you make your own pasta from scratch?
For decades my annual trip to my friend's remote cabin in the Catskills was always highlighted by his bringing a little Italian pasta maker.
He would make the dough, I would turn the crank, and out came home made pasta, sometimes made with veggies to flavor. This taught me that most
pasta was just cardboard, something to put the sauce and ingredients on to give it flavor.
Am thinking Don may have done this, using some alternative ingredients.
But to have spaghetti, or any pasta, where the pasta actually has some distinct flavor, is a real treat.
Similar to comparing white bread to 18 grain...

 

[RedNeckGeek]

do any of you make your own pasta from scratch?

My mother used to make the most heavenly egg noodles for her chicken soup, Drew. It was all made from scratch, and was so good that every time she asked me what I wanted for dinner, I'd say chicken noodle soup. It was a lot of work, and wasn't her favorite answer. Somehow her little box full of 3x5 recipe cards disappeared before I got back there to settle the estate, so her secret recipe will remain that way. I still have her strawberry pie and crust recipe, though, but like anything else that tastes good, it's not healthy eats by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[Buppies]

64 high of 85 today Sahara dust comes tomorrow hotter too

Had encounter with copperhead when I got home he got away but 28 gauge nearby now first one we have seen since living here 14 years

Prayers for Drew prayers for all

Prayers for Jay

 

[daugen]

pasta is actually very simple to make, most basic ingredients. Trick is using good flour, like semolina.
If one has the time and enjoys the process, mighty fine eating.
100 years ago, this is how all our food was, seems a lot healthier if one can reduce fat grams as in butter.
Everything goes better with bacon and butter...but not our arteries for sure.

 

[Thomas]

55F clear sky low 80's for high,finally weather break from the 3 H's.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...Do a lot of trimming this morning late afternoon mowing,that should chew up most of the day light hours.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[wngsprd]

66 and the rain just stopped from an unusual morning pop up storm. Looking for 85.

I bet Kyle's homemade sauce is best, but we really like this Gia Russa Hot Sicilian sauce for store-bought.

Pole sawed trees around the driveway and yard for 3 hours yesterday...we had low humidity which made the work go pleasantly. A FedEx truck drove in just as I had finished a place where branches would touch big trucks, and I'm sure he was glad, but never slowed down. I ended with 5 piles to drag down to the rabbit brush pile...although the last couple of days I've seen it come and go from under the lumber rack under my shelter.

Got the rest of the yard and trails mowed, then helped my wife unload a Costco run. My credit card company sends me alerts any time a charge of a $100 or more is made...so I was surprised at how little was in her SUV when she got home, since I already knew it cost $354.

 

[wngsprd]

64 high of 85 today Sahara dust comes tomorrow hotter too

Had encounter with copperhead when I got home he got away but 28 gauge nearby now first one we have seen since living here 14 years

Prayers for Drew prayers for all

Prayers for Jay

Our weather guy this morning forecasted beautiful sunsets next few days thanks to that Saharan dust.

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 50° with mostly clear skies this morning. Heading to 80° with partly cloudy skies. Never got to barn door. Remembered I have a washed out area of pavers on back patio. Got that done. Need to clean up area around repair. Then hope to get to barn doors.
Wild Lilies are blooming.

Drew, I have a pasta cutter. Came from my wife's grand parents. Has not been used in years. Too easy to put pasta in boiling water. We made our own sauce for years. Then we bought boats in mid 80's. Stopped gardening and sold the 2 head of cattle we had. We did eat a lot of fish while owning the boats.
My Aunt who raised Labrador dogs for years has sold her place. Tomorrow is closing. She has her fingers crossed to get closing done. Buyers are doing a final walk through today. She sold the place as is. Only safety and health items were addressed.

Mostly, Sassy tries to get Muffin up whenever shes goes outdoors. Sometimes it works. Rest of the time I need to get her up. Waited to long to get Sassy.

Wngsprd, I need to make a Costco/Sams Club run this week. I have not been there in a month. I see my CC taking a good sized hit.

RNG, I have shelves and drawers full of recipe books and files. My wife liked to cook. Nobody wants them. They use the internet for recipes today.

Rich, great pictures.

Rick, power washers does a great job on patio's.

Buppies, all the rain driving snakes out of their normal home?

Buckeye, hope your son got title transferred.

Everyone be healthy and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[txdon]

d
Am thinking Don may have done this, using some alternative ingredients.

Noodle making is in our sub culture. My mother, aunts and grandparents all made Wendish noodles. These are basically egg noodles. My mom has a noodle roller cutter. But I do not male my own pasta. There are plenty of eggless, oil free, whole grain pastas on the grocery shelf. However everything that goes on/with the pasta we make from scratch.

Good morning, 70˚ 63% humidity. We had a few bouts of rain during the cedarcidie yesterday but that was welcomed instead of the heat. The temp stayed below 80. We are 3/4 finished with the mile loop and the oaks freed are over 100 now. It looks like we will continue into July. On the morning When the temps are 80 before sunrise I think I might go to the pool instead.

I did go to the pool yesterday afternoon at my allotted 2 hour afternoon time slot. The reservation is a covid requirement. Only 15 people were there to keep the spacing. Mask are not required and every one kept about 10' away from others. A brief shower sent most of the people home, so I ran/swam around the pool for my cardio workout.

I did make a batch of whole wheat sour dough rolls with my starter yesterday. For the butter I put a onion and garlic in the air frier and then blend that with some cashews and spices, not fat free because of the nuts so it is used very sparingly.

You solar people need to speak English. Must be a good feeling to be energy independent. They do allow solar here and there are several in the neighborhood with panels on the roof but I do not like the panels on the roof because of the hail. Roof damage would require twice as much work.

The husqavera chainsaw did it's little thing yesterday. while laying on the side it leaked out the fuel I was pouring in. It did it twice so I was sure it was not operators error. Sitting upright and using it it does not leak, and runs good. ?? time for a little exploratory surgery today.

 

[riptides]

74 outside this AM. Cloudy and grey, a few storms are possible. We are pretty dry and have been for a while. A micro-burst of t-storms have passed through the last few days, rain amounts total less than a quarter inch.

Moving about the house, repairing stuff, mowing (what else is new), and doing some front-porch work. House a/c upper unit went out again, probably same issue as before. Lots of flashing red lights on the handler. But you need a computer to diag the meaning. Poor design, I'd say. If your going to flash a status indicator, you should put some label on it or sequence it in the operators manual so the owner knows what they are looking at. As it appears you need a tech to diag it.

The garden has been giving us lettuce in abundance. It looks like salad will be on the menu for weeks.

Hope all have a great day. Be safe.