Thursday, July 14, 2011

Use your Noodle! (Daring Cooks Cook Noodles…)

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Our Daring Cooks’ challenge this month was homemade noodles. Our hostess, Steph, of Stephfood was more than generous in her definition of pasta, imposing only the rule that it be made without the aid of powered machinery.

We make pasta most weekends (with extras for quick midweek meals) and have posted about it before. However, we’d never made it fully from scratch, so it was a fun challenge to try. Certainly very simple, though even this month we made pasta again and chose to use the food processor instead (and so aren’t counting it in the challenge)

As mentioned before, Steph was a very gracious hostess, so included in the noodles category were gnocchi, spaetzle, rice noodles and more. As ever, we were inspired by the variety and quality of the dishes produced by our fellow Daring Cooks, which can be found here

We made 3 dishes for this challenge, representing 3 kinds of noodles/dumplings; follow the links below for the recipes and gory details. First up was Duck and Spinach Cannelloni (cannelloni being a favorite pasta form factor of Mrs. Monkeyshines.) Next, we returned to a perennial favorite – Potato Gnocchi, paired on this occasion with a selection of seasonal vegetables. And last but by no means least: Buttermilk Spaetzle with Herbs, which were the perfect foil to a ribeye steak and roasted broccoli. Thanks, Steph, for an entertaining and tasty challenge!

Steph from Stephfood was our Daring Cooks' July hostess.  Steph challenged us to make homemade noodles without the help of a motorized pasta machine.  She provided us with recipes for Spätzle and Fresh Egg Pasta as well as a few delicious sauces to pair our noodles with!

13 comments:

  1. I love all three of your dishes, and am so impressed that you make pasta so frequently! Your gnocchi look awesome - I will have to try cooking them in a pan rather than boiling them next time. And I am now seriously in th emood to try cannelloni! Amazing work, as always!

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  2. Great job! All of your pastas look fantastic! I'm super impressed that you made cannelloni! So cool!

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  3. If you go about making those cannelloni again, would you mind sending some my way? My husband and I would give them a good home!

    Great job on the challenge!

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  4. Duck and spinach! Looks fabulous. My stomach is rumbling. Great job!

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  5. They all sound great, but I think if I had to choose, I'd order some of that duck and spinach cannelloni. Bravo!

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  6. Spinach and Duck....delicious! Love the others too, but the cannelloni is my favorite :) Great job on this challenge!

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  7. I love all three noodles but the Duck and Spinach Cannelloni is the one I would like to make first, I'm drooling already.:)

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  8. I want some duck and spinach cannelloni! Please?
    This challenge really reminded me that making pasta isn't so time consuming, but you already know that. Every weekend--wow!
    :)

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  9. I specially love the cannelloni with spinach and duck, sounds delicious, and the photo speaks for itself. Great job, as always :)

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  10. I want all three, the gnocchi, the spaetzle and the canneloni, BUT, I want the whole pan of canneloni! Duck and spinach filled baked until golden, cheesy crisp..Oh.My.Goodness.

    That said, love what you'd do with the Grana Padano! Last night we chipped off shards with aged balsamic vinegar and wine to wash it down. Perfection!

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  11. I am super impressed!
    gnocchi has been on my must try list for so long..thank you for sharing all the amazing recipes

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  12. I really LOVED this month's challenge! The cannelloni look great!!!! :-) Well done!

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