Birthday Pasta!

Today was my 25th birthday!  I've had some birthday money burning a hole in my pocket (thanks family!) and I finally decided what to do with it.  A few weeks ago I saw a great cookbook that was really inspiring, but would have done us no good without a pasta maker.  I realized this morning that the birthday money was enough to buy both!  I also picked up an adorable apron since I'm super messy in the kitchen and it matches the color scheme of the book (might not be a priority for all chefs, but coordination counts).

 I went with the high-end pasta maker since parts will always be available for it, even when we live back in the states.  I also got some ravioli molds that we will experiment with another day.

 Somehow I got the pasta dough to work!  It may have been beginners luck, but neither of us expected it to work out this well on our first try.  We don't have a drying rack, so we dried the pasta between two cardboard boxes using some chopsticks.

We focused so much energy on the pasta itself, that we decided to make a really simple sauce.  Yum!

 Look at us, living in Australia, making homemade pasta!