Watching all those cooking shows like Master Chef has really inspired Adrian to do more in the kitchen. He has been asking for some while now if we could try making our own pasta, like they always do on TV. Why not?

I looked for second hand pasta machines but didn’t find any, so I bought this beautiful shiny red thing. “Made in Italy” so it just has to make perfect pasta, doesn’t it?

I made the dough and Adrian operated the machine. It didn’t go very smoothly at first, and it took a while before we got a good handle on the whole folding-and-re-rolling process. Making the pasta took us over an hour.

It’ll go faster with practice, I’m sure. We’ll do this a few more times to get our skills up. And then – I wonder how hard can it be to make ravioli?

The resulting pasta was good, lighter and less chewy than dried pasta, but not earth-shatteringly delicious. I may have overcooked it slightly, to be honest.

Served with oven roasted cherry tomatoes, olive oil, Parmesan cheese and fresh basil.