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Of all
the Woot stuff I've bought, some of it I use. One that I'm
delighted with is the Cuisinart
Bread Maker. It's the only bread maker I've owned, so all of
them may be as good or better, but there you have it. One
of the things that happened however, was that the vibration from the
kneading action caused the machine to walk off the counter- Ka-Smash. I feared the worse,
but no. It started right up again, although the control module
(upper right in picture) was hanging by wires, and the cover was
half-way across the kitchen floor. I popped the control box back
in, and used heat resistant duct tape to hold the lid pieces
together. That was 4-5 months ago, and it's working
fine. But that's not what I wanted to tell you.
I made a special recipe MoSup found, but instead of using store bought
vermicelli, I decided to make my own. I used to have a pasta
roller that had a cutter attachment, but my daughter wanted it so I
gave it to her. Now, I would never have tried this before, but I
discovered that the Cuisinart's Basic Pasta
Recipe makes such pliable, easy to work with dough, that I don't
even need any flour when rolling it out. I rolled some out on the
counter and then cut strips with a kitchen knife. The strips were
irregular as all hell, but that became part of the charm. I
forgot how good fresh pasta tastes, not to mention the fast cooking
time. Time from thought to noodles- about 30 minutes.
While I'm at it, my most used recipe is the cranberry
pumpkin walnut bread; I made a dozen just for Christmas
presents. Takes about 90 minutes from beginning to end .
(The entire recipe book here)
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