This meal was a true a family effort. In the afternoon, our son and our daughter helped making the pasta dough. In the evening, Chris and our daughter made the pasta. Robin, of course, still did most of the work, but she appreciated the help.
Our daughter had more fun flattening out the pasta and running it through the fettuccine attachment. She was just thrilled to be allowed to feed the dough through the flattening attachment and the fettuccine cutting attachment (not something a young child should do!). It was her first time manning all aspects of the pasta preparations and she could not have been more pleased with herself.
Robin mostly appreciated not having to do everything herself. She found that an extra egg yolk was needed for the dough. We are not sure if it was the little, excited hands that dried the dough more than expected or if it was the store-bought eggs. Whatever the reason, the dough was not coming together properly. A single extra egg added to our standard pasta dough recipe did the trick. Plus it gave our daughter the chance to learn how to separate an egg.
Everyone enjoyed the pasta—it was delicious and the meal was well deserving of a little wine on the side for the adults.
