today's trick: homemade pasta. i don't know anything about making pasta from scratch. i don't recall my mom ever doing it, either. today's lesson learned: make sure the well you make in the flour to crack the eggs into is large enough to hold all of the eggs.

i haven't cooked it yet. the water is boiling now.

needless to say, this $130 pasta machine probably would have made things easier. a real drying rack would probably be good, too. (that's a wine rack doing double-duty up there.)