This is a multi-purpose food when only "bulk" will do.
There are lots of fancy recipes for making pasta. You can spend a paycheck coming up with things that make long noddles and such.
Or you can do what I do.
What you will need:
A coffee cup
A large egg
1/4 cup of flour
Pinch of salt
Fork
And some sort of food that is more watery that you want it to be.
For this example, let's suppose you're making some soup. You wanted to get the Hearty variety but accidentally got the regular.
Cook the soup in a pot on the stove (okay, I forgot to mention you will need a pot). While it is heating up, put the egg, minus the shell, into a coffee cup. Add the flour and salt, then beat with a fork. Do this with great vigor for about a minute or until the mixture turns yellow and creamy.
Once the soup is boiling, drip small clumps of the mixture from the cup. It won't pour easily so you may have to help it. A clump is about the size of a marble. It wont be round because it's sort of runny but the volume of the marble is what you want.
The clumps will cook in the boiling soup to form pasta dumplings. They take about 5 minutes to cook and you may want to taste to make sure they get done.
I just made the Chicken soup from this blog (a few posts back). I decided it was too thin so I added the pasta dumplings with some peas and olives and it tastes great!
Happy eating and thanks for clicking on my sponsors as you leave.
Jim
There are lots of fancy recipes for making pasta. You can spend a paycheck coming up with things that make long noddles and such.
Or you can do what I do.
What you will need:
A coffee cup
A large egg
1/4 cup of flour
Pinch of salt
Fork
And some sort of food that is more watery that you want it to be.
For this example, let's suppose you're making some soup. You wanted to get the Hearty variety but accidentally got the regular.
Once the soup is boiling, drip small clumps of the mixture from the cup. It won't pour easily so you may have to help it. A clump is about the size of a marble. It wont be round because it's sort of runny but the volume of the marble is what you want.
The clumps will cook in the boiling soup to form pasta dumplings. They take about 5 minutes to cook and you may want to taste to make sure they get done.
I just made the Chicken soup from this blog (a few posts back). I decided it was too thin so I added the pasta dumplings with some peas and olives and it tastes great!
Happy eating and thanks for clicking on my sponsors as you leave.
Jim
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