When I requested pasta with pesto as an easy weeknight meal (extra easy because we made the pesto earlier in the week), I certainly wasn’t expecting to come home to this.
Homemade whole wheat pasta made from locally grown wheat!
We’ve been talking about making our own pasta for awhile now but feared that we would not be able to get the dough thin enough without some fancy pasta maker. The full pasta-making kit attachment for our stand mixer costs about as much as the mixer itself, not to mention that you’d be buying some tools that do just one thing — make pasta.
So Matthew found a recipe for whole wheat pasta, pulled out our lovely made-in-Missouri rolling pin, and got to work.
No pasta maker? No problem. Matt still wants to tweak some things, but I thoroughly enjoyed our first homemade pasta venture — whole wheat fettuccine.
Green features:
- 99% local ingredients (flour, water, and eggs) — only the salt was non-local
- Avoids packaging of store bought pasta
Her Green Life 
Thanks for this info. Good to know you can make pasta without a pasta maker.
It looks so good. I’ve been craving this ever since I saw your post!
It looks delicious!
For pasta round 2, we’re going to experiment with spelt flour (another whole grain) — supposed to be good for whole grain pastas, though this flour won’t be locally grown.