Michelle arranged a special date night for us. With the craziness of this semester we haven't had the chance to go out on any dates. The USU extension office offers a variety of classes to the community to teach various skills and tonight's lesson is how to make pasta. It was designed as a date night intentionally and so we decided to take advantage of the opportunity.
The first thing we did was to make the dough. It wasn't very difficult and ended up mostly being flour and water. That was certainly surprising to me. I figured it would be much more difficult than that.
Once we had the dought to the right consistancy we had to roll it into a flat sheet of noodle. There are all sorts of devices that help you through this process and it would be fun to own a few of them some day.
The first thing we did was to make the dough. It wasn't very difficult and ended up mostly being flour and water. That was certainly surprising to me. I figured it would be much more difficult than that.
Once we had the dought to the right consistancy we had to roll it into a flat sheet of noodle. There are all sorts of devices that help you through this process and it would be fun to own a few of them some day.
Once the noodle dough is flat you cut it into the type of noodle that you want. We decided to try a couple of different options. First we sliced some spagetti noodles. The slicing part was easy, the seperating part took a few minutes.
We also decided to try making ravioli. For this pasta you just lay the dough on the ravioli pan, fill it with stuff, cover it and cut the squares out. Simple enough that even I could handle it.
Finally, you boil the noodles for a few minutes to cook it. Then you sit down and enjoy epic creation. 
We had an enjoyable time together, away from the kids. We're gonna have to do something like this more often!
Thank you sweetheart for a wonderful time. I love you.
(Posted 7/24/10)
