Week 4, A Guests Request

Well I’ve made another pasta dish. This week was a request made by a guest in our home who was provided the Fresh Pasta section of the Silver Spoon to choose a dish from. The request… Taglietelle with Cream, Peas and Ham or in Italian, Taglietelle Panna, Pisella E Prosciutto. This is quite involved making taglietelle from scratch. Flour and eggs kneaded into a dough, rested and put through the pasta machine making sheets of very yummy pasta. This was a bit difficult in that it required resting of the pasta after each stage and I admit I got distracted for the last part and left it longer than it needed, which meant it was dry and then hard to get through the machine, however 3 women in the kitchen and we got the problem resolved!

Onto making the sauce. I used 200g of fresh shelled peas(I outsourced the shelling of peas..win!), ham, double cream(again!) and an onion. Once the Onion was soft in the Butter and Olive Oil, the peas were cooked for 20 mins on a low heat in the pan. You add the cream for 5 minutes and finally the ham just as you are ready to finish. With the pasta cooked al dente in salted boiling water and mixed together in bowl and there it is… Dinner.

The pasta itself can be tricky, but I suspect as I do it more I will get better and knowing the timing of what is required. The sauce is simple to prepare, and I have to say I am loving the Italian sauces in general, all of them tasty and I have learnt so much from how they prepare them compared to how I would have thought to prepare them before the Silver Spoon. They don’t need all the ingredients I used to use like garlic, basil and even onion in most dishes which really makes it all the more tasy when they are used. It is official in my opinion that the Italians have the sauce thing absolutely worked out and I love it!