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Fresh Homemade Noodles! Make your fresh homemade noodles here!

Making pasta is one of those things that I never thought that I would fall in love with. Now, unlike this recipe I do go for the easy way- yes I have a pasta maker attachment for our kitchen-aid. You can also buy or cut roll it out and cut as the instructions say. Honestly though- the attachment for the Kitchen-Aid is one of the best buys I’ve made (it makes making pierogi a breeze).

Homemade Noodles

Course: Dinner
Cuisine: Italian
Keyword: homemade pasta, italian, pasta
Servings: 2 pounds

Ingredients

  • 6 eggs
  • 6 tablespoons light cream
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • cups flour about

Instructions

  • Combine eggs, cream, and salt.
  • Beat thoroughly.
  • Stir in flour gradually to form a dough that can be formed into a ball.
  • Knead on a lightly floured surface for 10 minutes.
  • Divide dough into 4 portions.
  • On a lightly floured surface roll each portion, stretching the dough, until paper-thin and transparent.
  • Let dry for 30 minutes.
  • Cut into strips of desired widths.
  • Drop into boiling salted water (½ pound or 2 cups noodles, 2 quarts water, 2 teaspoons salt) and cook for about 6 minutes.
  • Drain.

Notes

Yield: 2 pounds of uncooked noodles

AUNT DOROTHY’S LASAGNA.

AUNT DOROTHY'S LASAGNA.

Course: Dinner, Lunch, Main Course, Main Dish
Cuisine: Italian
Keyword: lasagna, pasta
Author: Mary Tornow

Ingredients

  • 3 lbs. round ground
  • 1 box lasagna noodles
  • 3 cans Suzabelle Pizza sauce
  • 1 can can stewing tomatoes finely cut
  • 1 large onion
  • 2 pkg Mozzarella cheese
  • 2 cartons cartons ricotta cheese
  • 2 tsp. rounded oregano
  • Parmesan cheese

Instructions

  • Cook meat in oil with onion.
  • While meat is browning, open cans and combine in a large kettle.
  • Add meat and simmer for 30 minutes,
  • Cook lasagna noodles. Into the very large roasting pan, put 1 cup of sauce on the bottom.
  • Add lasagna strips, then the mixture, then 2 kinds of cheese.
  • Keep repeating.
  • The top layer has the mixture and cheese on top.
  • Sprinkle Parmesan cheese on top and a very faint sprinkle of oregano.
  • Bake in 350-degree oven 30- 40 minutes.
  • Let set for about 10 minutes before serving.

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LENTEN LASAGNE

 

LENTEN LASAGNE

Lasagna recipe that is perfect for meat free Mondays or Fridays during lent
Course: Dinner, Lunch, Main Course, Main Dish
Cuisine: Italian
Keyword: lasagna, lasange, lent, meat-free
Author: unknown

Ingredients

  • ½ cup chopped onion
  • 2 medium cloves garlic minced
  • 1 teaspoon oregano crushed
  • 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
  • 2 cans 10 ¾ ounces each Campbell’s Tomato Soup
  • ¼ cup water
  • 8 ounces lasagne noodles cooked and drained
  • 8 ounces Mozzarella cheese sliced
  • 1 pint cottage or ricotta cheese .
  • ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese

Instructions

  • In saucepan, cook onion with seasonings in butter
  • until tender; add soup, water.
  • In shallow baking dish (12"x8"x2"), arrange three.alternate layers of noodles, Mozzarella cheese, cottage cheese, sauce, and Parmesan cheese.
  • Bake at 350°F. for 30 minutes.
  • 4 to 6 servings.

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Spicy Italian Cookies

Spicy Italian Cookies

Prep Time3 hours
Cook Time20 minutes
Total Time3 hours 20 minutes
Course: Cookie, Dessert
Cuisine: Italian
Author: Lucy DiTondo, Friends of St Coumba's St. Lucy

Ingredients

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 cups butter
  • 4 tbsp anise seed
  • 4 tbsp anise extract
  • 5 cups flour (sifted twice)
  • 3 tbsp bourbon
  • 2 cups almonds or walnuts
  • 6 eggs
  • 1 tbsp baking powder

Instructions

  • Mix sugar, butter, anise seed, anise extract, bourbon and nuts together. 
  • Beat in eggs.
  • Sift flour twice, measure, add baking powder and sift again, adding to sugar mixture.
  • Blend thoroughly.
  • Cover and chill dough for 2-3 hours.
  • On a lightly floured board shape dough into flat loaves 1/2" thick, 2" wide and the length of your cookie sheet.
  • Place only 2 loaves per cookie sheet.
  • Bake in 375º F oven for about 20 minutes.
  • Remove from oven.and let cool to touch.
  • Slice diagonally in 1/2" slices 

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