This morning I went onto Pinterest to look at my pins for inspiration. This put a smile on my face...
Memories of making homemade pasta.
Living out in Italy in the Puglia region I soon got to learn how to make orecchiette,'little ears' in English.
Here featured are also fusilli made by rolling pasta with a spike from an old umbrella!
I was given a wooden board as I took to making homemade pasta very quickly, called a Tumbagna.
Very much like this one, raised on three sides so that everything is retained. Handmade by a local artisan, mine certainly never really got put away. It was always out as pasta was a daily staple.
I remember too, many years ago seeing images of women making homemade orecchiette outside their homes just like this on television. I then got to witness this and joined in myself.
Italians are very social beings, so pasta making is often done in company.
I shall eventually post pictures of Orecchiette made by myself.
Cavatelli a tre ditta
Cavatelli a due ditta
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