Sauces for the Kitchen Pasta Maker

What's homemade pasta without the sauce?  What you put on your homemade pasta is as important as what you put in it.  So along with our other kitchen pasta maker features, we'll be featuring great fresh pasta sauce recipes, too.  And I've got just the site and resource to get you started.  It's a great site devoted expressly to saucing, with a blog, information, tips, and much more; it also offers an excellent cheap, instantly downloadable e-book sauce cookbook available, too.  Find your next great fresh pasta sauce recipe and have a wonderful, homemade pasta meal on your table tonight, start to finish! 

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Saucing Website & Cookbook

Kitchen Pasta Maker Featured Video: Making Fresh Pasta Part 2

I had planned to post this pasta making video later this week or next, by why wait?  This second video from Blomsie completes the kitchen pasta maker experience, showing you how to use the pasta roller or homemade pasta machine.

Kitchen Pasta Maker - Featured Video, Pasta-Making Tutorial

It's highly recommended to use the power of the internet to ease your adventures in making homemade pasta by watching just how making pasta at home is done.  To that end, we'll be featuring some of the best pasta-making videos we can find to help you see just what your doughs should look like and how to use your kitchen pasta maker.

The video featured today is from "Blomsie".  It's a nice tutorial for the new kitchen pasta maker that will run you through the basics of prepping the pasta dough (one of the trickiest and most essential parts) in under 10 minutes, and get you started on your new culinary adventure!

Kitchen Pasta Maker Foodie-Site Feature of the Week

Ok so one of the things that I'd like to do here is feature some of the best of what's out there in the foodie field.  The plan is to make this a weekly feature and to highlight things like foodie blogs and great websites - could be recipe site features, great foodie sites for deals and steals, or like this one, foodie blogs.

So here goes and the first foodie site feature from Kitchen Pasta Maker Fun is a blog I've been following for quite a while now, called

Cooking By The Seat of My Pants

This blog is a feature of great foods, recipes, experiments in cooking and baking, and kitchen fun.  I love it because I get some really excellent recipes and ideas (including some great copycat recipes, too!), as well as lots of inspiration.  Best of all, though, this blogger is as unpretentious as they come, so no fear of being snubbed here, and loves to take chances and create new recipes - which in turn, inspires me to do the same!

Great job, CBSOP, keep it coming!  And for you readers, check it out and keep going back for more!

Guest Post: Weighing in on Finding a Kitchen Pasta Maker

I absolutely love fresh pasta, but was never sure where to start with the essential kitchen pasta maker. I love to cook but I must say that the notion of cooking my own pasta was a bit intimidating. I finally decided that I simply must have fresh pasta and that I wanted it to come from my own kitchen. I set out to find the perfect kitchen pasta maker but knew that might be a task in and of itself. There are plenty of sites out there to check out pasta maker reviews and find the one that best fit my needs, and so I decided to start slow and go for more of an attachment type of device, like a KitchenAid mixer pasta maker.

I looked up and down, went to stores, demos, and checked out a number of websites. I finally settled on the kitchen pasta maker that seemed to work best for me. I got a little nervous as I set out on this kitchen task—so unlike me with all of my domestic skills! I must say that the pasta maker does much of the work for you and I was pleasantly surprised. I would try it again and maybe even get a bit creative with the type of pasta that I make. One step of the fresh pasta meal conquered…can't wait to try it with my fresh sauce!!

Mary Frederick thinks homemade pasta is unbeatable. She recommends these kitchen pasta maker deals and pasta makers reviews.

Kitchen Pasta Maker on its Way!

Well, I did it.  After getting caught up and spending the entire morning (which was, of course, supposed to be spent doing other things ;)) on Amazon and eBay, I finally decided on my new kitchen pasta maker.  Being a newbie kitchen pasta maker, I wanted something inexpensive but not a cheap pasta machine, simple to use, but with enough features to do the job and simplify the process.  After sifting through many, many kitchen pasta makers, reviews, features, and so on, I finally landed on the following as my kick-starter kitchen pasta maker set.  I'll let you know in the future how it goes.  Oh - and I'll also give you some insight as to how I came to this decision out of the multitudes of choices in hand pasta makers and homemade pasta maker machines.

All in all, I decided a good starter kitchen pasta maker package for me was:

• naturally, an economical kitchen pasta maker
• a pasta drying rack
• an introductory homemade pasta-making cookbook
• and a ravioli maker - I'll be making our own cheese and growing the garden again soon, so this seemed to be a good option for me

Here is what I bought:
















I did strongly consider this one with the additional pasta maker attachments, but opted for the above for now...




...but I can see myself upgrading or adding to my new pasta machine in the future, and probably not that distant, either ;)

Simple Pasta Recipe to Get You Started

Here's a simple pasta recipe for the kitchen pasta maker.  Easy to follow, simple ingredients...everything the novice homemade pasta maker, like me, is looking for!  What I love even more is the fact that it, of course, uses eggs...which are in abundance around here these days, given the baker's dozen and more my backyard chickens are laying!

Apologies for the short post, but I've got sick little ones...but I did want to stop in and share this link!

Kitchen Pasta Maker Fun - Welcome!

Welcome to my new blog, where we strive to have lots of fun with kitchen pasta makers!  ...Or maybe just a bit of fun, with some great-tasting results ;)

Let me explain a little about this blog.  In order to do that, let me explain just a little about myself.

I'm a lot of things - a mom of 4 and a wife and all the things that implies, small-time farmer into self sufficiency, amateur cook, amateur baker, chicken raiser, web content writer, work-at-home-mom.....

Of these, probably one of the biggest things that occupies my time, whether actively or just in thought, is putting good, fresh, healthy, reliable, trustworthy food on the table.  Yes, that takes up a lot of time and energy, but it's a labor of love.  We truly love to increase the self-sufficiency of our home. 

More and more, I find myself moving towards more scratch baking and cooking.  With a little added effort, making things from scratch recipes with simple ingredients rather than from boxed and bagged mixes laden with preservatives (or worse), I can feed my family cheaper, healthier, more wholesome foods.

Out of this labor of love has been most recently born an interest in kitchen pasta makers, making fresh pasta (a dietary staple in our home), and all the tools, recipes, tips, and tricks that go along with that.  As it turns out, there are many other people out there interested in living in similar fashion, or just plain looking for better-tasting pasta options.  And so, I've decided to share what I'm learning along the way. 

And so, borne of that is this blog dedicated to the kitchen pasta maker and all its complements and potential.  I hope you'll continue to come back and to share your stories, resources, tips, and more.