So Much Fun

With all the nonsense coming out of Washington, DC, it's important to keep a level head and a smile on your face. One way to do that is to make pasta. Now I have been making home made pasta for pretty much 50 years now, but last weekend my husband and I took a pasta class from one of the local Italian restaurants. This was so much fun it's hard to describe. There were four couples who had signed up and it was real hands on fun. The only thing we weren't allowed to do was roll out the dough using the restaurant machine and that was because it was a liability issue. But we did everything else and at the end we had four courses of pasta with different sauces and tiramisu for dessert.

We learned how to make cavatelli, garganelli, ravioli, mezzaluna, and chitarra pasta along with other shapes that I can't remember the names of. The cavatelli was the easiest as it only involved making the dough, rolling it into a long snake, cutting the snake into inch-long pieces, and then using your thumb to roll them over into a sort of cowrie shell shape. The chef explained that you could just do that on the counter with no other equipment or you could roll the dough down a gnocchi board to make the shapes grooved. Naturally I went right home and ordered a gnocchi board. Actually I ordered three and sent two to my sons in Utah for them to use. And today my hubby and I made some for home consumption. There are all sorts of videos online about how to do this so you don't need me to show you but look it up and have some fun.

And anyone who doesn't think Trump stage managed the whole snit about not working with the Democrats is simply not paying attention. Even before he entered the room he had the television cameras in the Rose Garden with special signs and all of his loyal aides. He had the staff close the curtains in the Oval Office so anyone in there couldn't see the circus and then he did his usual petulant two year old act. Howard Stern says he has a recording with Trump saying he didn't want to be president, he just wanted NBC to renew his contract at a higher salary. Trumpettes wake up!