Who Wants To Come For Dinner?

It always starts with bread. This wonderful easy to make, no knead bread. The only changes I made to the recipe are 1 tsp yeast and 1 1/2 tsp salt. I just find it rises better but feel free to experiment. I've also made it with 2 cups white flour and 1 cup whole wheat. It doesn't get quite as high but what the heck.

The pantry was a bit bare this weekend because both of us have a really bad cold and couldn't get out for groceries. I did find a pork tenderloin in the freezer, which together with some mushrooms, onions and sour cream was enough to make a meal. Oh yes, there was wine.

Fry the whole mess together until nice and brown and toss in some water and at least a cup of wine. My spices were a little salt, lots of pepper and Hungarian paprika. Cover and simmer for half hour or so. It's tenderloin, it doesn't take long.

When its nice and tender I toss in some sour cream and that's mostly to taste. I use about 3/4 cup or so and I also mix about a teaspoon of corn starch into the sour cream It helps to thicken the sauce a little.

But then disaster struck. The pasta drawer was empty, well almost empty. There were some weird shell type past kicking around in the back of the shelf of unknown age but somehow I didn't think that would go with this dinner.

So plan B...the trusty pasta machine. Not really difficult to make pasta at all, just 2 eggs, a little olive oil, a little water and flour. Oh dear, you can see the chip in my bowl, groan...it's one that I made and I'm loath to throw it out.

Looks kind of messy but trust me, it's going to be fine.

A little kneading and then through the machine. It actually goes through a few times at different setting and then ends up really thin.

Not thin enough yet but this would make great lasagna.

when it's thin enough it goes through the cutter and comes out like this. Perfect fettucine.

A quick boil in salted water, maybe 3 minutes.

Dinner's served...

Just for a little healthy I did steam some broccoli on the side. Bye the way, I really don't like cooking very much.

Next week I will try to make some of those weird Beaver Tails that President Obama so enjoyed on his visit to Canada this past week.