Somethings are just better when they’re homemade – bread, pizza, wine, ice cream, cottage cheese, noodles, ….. um, maybe this post is going nowhere. Let me tell you my noodle story.
I keep lurking on these cooking blogs where seemingly normal people are making fantastic-looking food in their normal kitchens and then photographing it to make it seem unattainably beautiful. I read one and wanted to make noodles from scratch. I’ve watched Alton Brown do it on t.v. with all the pasta machine doo-dads, then I read about people who have done it only using flour, an egg, some salt & water and a knife. I wanted to try that. I’m glad I did, but I might not ever do it again. These noodles turned out ok, but nothing can beat Kluski noodles. A good day is chicken soup with Kluski noodles.
I seem to be using lots and lots of flour lately. I don’t know what the obsession is. I think I like that flour doesn’t talk back to me. Or pee it’s pants. Much.
Karla says
I buy my flour from Sam’s -- I get a 25 lb bag of it for around 5 bucks. It lasts a looong time. That’s what I love most about it; not having to remember to buy some smaller bags at the grocery store.
Deanne says
Ahhhh, a woman after my own heart… Do you want to come to my house and use some of my flour with me? Only, I use one of those bags of bread flour, like every 2 months.
No troubles with buggies?
Stephannie says
If you keep the flour in your freezer -- no bugs!
Christina says
Also, tupperware has these great containers (I believe they are intended for tea or punch -- they have a pour spout) but they will fit at least 5lb, maybe 10lb of flour or sugar -- and never a bug!!
Karla says
I keep my working stash in a Tupperware Module Mate (either #3 or 4) -- that holds about 10 pounds. The rest I put in a 5 gallon bucket and keep it in the basement. I’ve never had a bug. Sometimes my sugar gets a little clumpy (I buy that 50 lbs at a time), but everything is bug free!
Deanne says
I haven’t had any troubles either, but after I found a real live worm in a potato once, I am a little nervous.
I need a deep freeze… then I could fit my flour in!
Lloyd says
I, for one, really liked the noodles.
Christina says
Which means you will never get them again???
Peggy says
The important thing is that you had fun. You had fun, right? And they look absolutely deeelicious!!
Potato gnocchi is another food that must be homemade … and on a day that it’s not humid. Humidity attacks & destroys the gnocchis. (gnocchies, gnocchii, ???)
Beth says
What’s a gnocchi?
Peggy says
WHAT’S A GNOCCHI?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-US&q=picture+of+gnocchi&btnG=Search
Deanne says
I’m with you, Peggy. How could anyone not know what Gnocchi is??!! Yummm, but I’ve never actually tried to make it. I just eat my friend Maricel’s.
Lauren says
I’ve never eaten gnocchi.
Beth says
Let’s see…
I live in Nebraska. And though I was born in Tennessee, I was born to parents from Nebraska. I married a Nebraska farm boy. I’ve tried Rocky Mountain Oysters, fried pickles and raw hack. I regularly eat grits and prefer my roast beef with mashed potatoes and gravy (homemade, and I do it well). I don’t think it’s weird to NOT know what gnocchi is… I think it’s perfectly mid-western… :D!
Brad says
I thought a gnocchi was one of those statues of bearded guys with red pointy hats that you put in your garden.
“Watch out, Dad, you’re going to hit the garden gnocchi with the lawn mower!”
Beth says
Heh.
More realistically, “Watch out Brad, you’re going to hit the garden gnocchi with the motorcycle!”
Peggy says
hehehe …. very clever Brad!
Beth says
So it’s a noodle nubbin that looks like a seashell? I just call those “noodles that look like seashells”… I had no idea they had a name.
Peggy says
“It’s not a noodall!” spoken like Arnold Schwartzenauger
They’re made with potatoes!
Peggy says
Maybe I could come visit and we could make them. I’ll bring the ricer (unless you have one).
Lauren says
I have a rusty ricer! (That sounds like a country singer, doesn’t it?)
Beth says
Or a KOLN/KGIN Meteorologist. Heh.
Jill says
Now THAT is funny. And true.
Deanne says
Nope, it’s more like a lump that looks like a seashell. It’s very soft, like a dumpling, maybe. And it’s flavored very differently, most importantly because of the potato, but you also put other yummy stuff in there.
Stephannie says
My Dad makes noodles and they are the best ever! I’ve tried to do the same, but somehow they’re never as good as my Dad’s… Homemade noodles are the BEST!
By the way -- yours look much, much prettier than mine ever do!
Jill says
Whenever we make chicken noodle soup, my hubby makes the noodles. After years of watching (and helping) his mother make them, he’s a pro. The noodles always turn out so much better than mine.
Beth says
I’m with you on the “some things are just better homemade” statement…
I don’t thing noodles are one of the. I like the store noodles, plastic bag and all.
I wouldn’t make a very good Italian.
Deanne says
Sometimes it’s the tools. I used to make pasta at the Olive Garden, and it was a cinch. Well, that is, with a great, big pasta machine and piles of eggs and semolina flour… Well, you get the idea.
Peggy says
I make an AWFUL Italian … just ask anyone who is actually Italian. I’ve pretty much been disowned by their culture long ago, remember I don’t like cheese or wine or Sambuka. Like Lauren, I like to find recipes and try them … I like things homemade as much as possible.