A Near miss?

[hyperD]

Ah, hyperD, made my own butter last week successfully. So simple and so delicious and creamy. It seems to freeze successfully as well, so you can make a pile of it and keep it (for those times when the cream is reduced to clear). I also put fresh herbs and garlic in some of it - delicious.

Hey LB! Sounds great - did you follow your own technique for doing this or did you use a recipe? What where the root ingreds? Sounds like another good avenue to explore.

Made my own pasta a few weeks ago and then ravioli and pizza. There's no stopping it once you get started.

Eventually Mrs hyperD and myself will end up being another Tom and Barbara Good at this rate.

[Lucifer Box]

I followed the rather amusing instructions at this site: Cooking for Engineers

As you can see, it really is a doddle. I used the extracted buttermilk to make sodabread. Scrummy.

The only essential ingredient required is double cream (anything else, herbs, garlic, salt, etc is a matter of personal taste). Organic and unpasteurised is best for flavour but hard to come by and pricey. Supermarket double cream works just fine though (and is often reduced to clear at the end of the day so is ultra-economical).

Oh yes, and I picked up that pasta machine you recommended off eBay - for a tenner!! Bargain!!! Haven't used it yet though as it only arrived yesterday.

[hyperD]

Great website - I shall try that!

Good article on cholesterol as well - another reason to avoid all supermarket processed food.

£10!!?!? Definately a bargain - mine was a present so don't feel to hard done by!

See if you can get all the attachments for it - the automatic ravioli maker looks great.

[~Craig~]

you sould keep this up, quite an interesting thread

[Lucifer Box]

I saw the ravioli maker but wasn't sure what to make of it. It seems to be adding a lot of complexity to a task that isn't difficult in the first place. Besides, I kind of like the homemade look randomly shaped bits of hand pressed ravioli have.

That was a good article about processed fats, one of the main reasons why I bake all my own bread myself now.

[~Craig~]

what pasta recipe do you use? I should really have a go sometime.

[Lucifer Box]

what pasta recipe do you use? I should really have a go sometime.

Flour, eggs and a pinch of salt. 250g of flour and 2 eggs - make a well in the flour, pop in the eggs, add a pinch of salt and stir it all in gradually. Leave it to settle for half an hour then roll it out and cut it how you like. It's by far the best if you use the Italian '00' flour. It's very easy. You don't need a pasta machine really, that just makes it easier to do some of the more tricky stuff.

[~Craig~]

thanks!

Just been looking at pasta machines on ebay, should i be looking for a particular brand or are they all pretty much the same?

[hyperD]

You don't need a pasta machine really, that just makes it easier to do some of the more tricky stuff.

Speak for yourself! All day spent spanking the monkey on bigboobies.com sapped all my strength, so my first hand-rolled raviola pasta were so thick they looked like bricks of lard!

Pasta machine enables continual multi-tasking while churning out normal looking pasta.

Yes the ravioli attachment looks complicated but I'm intrigued at putting two sheets of pasta either side and pouring the filling in the middle, turning a handle and have little ravioli pieces.

Press the ravioli tin isn't too bad to be honest - you still get the serated edges but they seem to disappear on boiling the pasta.

Craig - definately the 00 pasta flour - you can buy it from most places. Worth trying to get the genuine, organic Italian stuff if you can from an Italian store.

[Fungus]

It's 1000ft vertical separation OR 3nm horizontal separation for IFR aircraft under controlled airspace - not both.

It's also 2 different sized a/c with the depth of field telephoto lens camera effect as often used in films (such as Honey I Shrunk The Kids) to make objects appear relatively bigger/smaller than they are.

More details here:-
http://www.nats.co.uk/library/rvsm.html

Another telephoto lens trick:
http://www.planes.cz/foto1.asp?mode=...CZHSW&jazyk=cz

While Delia and Gordon Ramsey are waiting for the oven to warm up ....

The Red Arrows do the same thing to make it look to the audience as if they only just missed each other.

... and over to you two back in the kitchen.