MORE ABOUT PASTAS....

There are five basic steps in making your own pasta: 
mixing, kneading, rolling,cutting and drying.
While making pasta's dough, if you add pureed vegetables, chocolate, or other ingredients to your dough you can 
obtain a wide range of delightful color.

Green Pasta.. Wash the spinach well, cut it and heat it 
in a pan with just the water that sticks to the leaves. 
Add a pinch of salt and stir it until it is completely 
cooked, then let it cool and squeeze it well to remove 
all the water you can. Blend the spinach and combine
it with the other ingredients when you make the dough.

Red Pasta..For these cut the carrots and simmer them
until soft in lightly salted water. Drain them well, blend
them, add the tomato paste to the mixture,mix all while
making  the dough.

Brown Pasta This is a  new addition to the pasta variety 
and is made with powdered baking (unsweetened) chocolate.

• 3 1/3 cups) flour

3 ounces (80 g) powdered baking chocolate

• 4 eggs
• A pinch of salt.
• Mix all  and  make a dough.

Cheese Pasta…when grated cheese is added to the 
dough..like grated ' Parmigiano'  cheese.

Speckled Pasta  When  finely cut fresh herbs, for 
example sage, parsley, rosemary, thyme,
or whatever else suits your fancy are added while 
making the dough to make  pastas.