Homemade Gluten Free Pasta

For our wedding register one thing that we thought would be essential for delicious meals was a pasta maker.  While our Trader Joe's corn pasta has been awesome! we wanted to give our own pasta a shot. When better to do it than when you should be completing grad school homework on a lazy Sunday in February...

So to the Gluten Free Kitchen essential cookbook 1000 Gluten Free Recipes by Carol Fenster where I had previously seen a doable recipe. The recipe was fairly simple and required all things we had in the house. (One tip for new gluten freers - if you see a sale, stock up! I bought almost all of my gluten free flour varieties when the store around the corner from me changed hands and everything was 50% off - I spent about $50 just on flour that day, but now I have ever kind essential to my kitchen.  Also, places like Christmas Tree Shop has a ton of Red Mills products for much better prices)

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Things to note:  Make sure you let the dough rest.  Our first batch didn't come out so hot because the non gluten didn't have time to set (as they say for regular gluten dough's) and it was difficult to work with at the beginning.


Viola, gluten free pasta! Add your favorite sauce and enjoy!

A long, long, time ago, I lived a life full of gluten.  It was painful, and I had no idea why.  As a person who has never really been a huge fan of pasta or pizza (albeit this can be contributed to the 5 painful months I worked at a pizza place during college), I have always love desserts, and sweets, and desserts, and anything sweet.   When I was first told I had Celiac and needed to live my life gluten free, it didn't really hit me all that hard.  Sure, I had to be more careful about what I consumed, and I couldn't just order in as easily or readily as before, but it wasn't until Thanksgiving that I really realized what I was in for. When my favorite Thanksgiving dessert, Apple pie, came out of the oven, it took my whole body and soul not to just give up right there.

Living life gluten free really is an adventure, but it doesn't have to be a difficult or tasteless one.