Work - So Much Fun!

On Tuesday I was excited that I was going to have time to test the new KitchenAid Pasta Press attachment.  I have made pasta before with my KA pasta roller/cutter attachment and love it, but this makes rigatoni, macaroni in two sizes, fusilli, bucatini, and spaghetti.

I made some pasta dough using the recipe in the Use and Care Guide and started playing.  I mean working.  This is so much fun!  It is easy, it works, the storage for the pasta plates is perfect.  I made some of each type of pasta and had some rigatoni for dinner.  It's too bad my husband was at his normal weekly meeting, but I enjoyed the pasta. 

I remembered to take some pictures of the attachment, the process and the finished product. 

This is a very new attachment and I did not get to keep it for now.  I passed it on to a fellow personal chef and KitchenAid product specialist Wendy so she could play.  I mean so she could also work hard learning the new attachment and testing it to gain product knowledge.  If LuAnn wonderful KA boss in Pittsburgh reads my blog I want her to know how hard we all work. 

I highly recommend purchasing this now, or at least adding this to your gift wish lists.  I did not eat all of the pasta that I made, so I dried it a little, placed it in plastic bags and tossed them in the fridge.  I just looked at them and they are still perfect, not bits of mush. 

I cooked for my client yesterday and she invited us to the lake to sail on Saturday.  I thanked her and said that I had volunteered to help someone, hadn't heard yet, but if that didn't happen we would start to redo the office.  A big job requiring moving computers, maybe setting up office in the dining room

I heard yesterday from the person I'll be working for.  I'm not sure exactly what I'll be doing yet.  I leave tomorrow, I will be working hard, on a shrimp boat, in the sun, getting dirty and smelly and will be making nothing for pay.  I will take pictures, may be able to post through Facebook, will write about the weekend when I get home on Monday. 

My husband and the cats will be here enjoying the holiday weekend doing something.  Probably not starting to redo the office.