Pasta and Hair:no, not together!

Anni and I got out the Pasta machine this week. She took it to her cooking group. The kids made three types of pasta noodles; whole wheat linguine, garlic spaghetti, and basil fettuccini. We also ran a batch of dough through the machine at home.

Here come the noodles. How do you make noodles? Flour, eggs, salt, olive oil, and water make the basic noodles. If you want to get fancy (and face it, who doesn't occasionally?) throw in some herbs and spices. Fresh noodles cook really quickly and are delish!

Drying the pasta on the noodle tree.

In other news, our local farmer's market opened up for the season. We found lovely rhubarb, broccoli rabe, potatoes, cucumbers, and radishes. Congrats to our favorite sauce maker who just won a gold medal at the world mustard championships. (who knew there were world mustard championships!) Our market also has very talent local artist who sell everything from hand thrown pottery to jewelry to wooden inlay pens and so much more. Our current fav is a sweet gal who makes pendents from scrabble tiles.

After a week of cough, sniff, and achoo, I decided it was time for a new -do.

This one is a reverse bob, longer in the front than back with bangs.

I like this cut. It works with my natural state of curliness,

and that makes me happy. Less time with the hair drier!

Now, what to do with all that extra time. I know, I'll write another story! Hmm...