I'm always on the look out for useful stuff in charity shops and a few weeks ago I found a pasta maker which was brand new in it's box.
Today I gave it a try and with 500g of flour and 3 eggs I successfully made pasta for vegetable lasagne for tonight's evening meal and some tagliatelle to store in the fridge for another meal.
I don't know if it was beginners luck or if it really is easy to make but it was a great success. The flour I used was organic and the eggs were from local free range garden chickens.
There's definetly therapeutic value in kneading and the vegetable lasagne tasted delicious because it was totally home made with love.
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A couple of years ago I visited Lauriston Hall, a local housing cooperative, which was a fantastic place in beautiful countryside.
http://www.diggersanddreamers.org.uk...t&sel=lauriest Members devoted approxiametly 3 days of their time to work in their community. As well as raising their own animals the community grew a lot of their food in a huge beautiful garden.
The woman who showed me around told me about her daily green sandwich. So together we selected a largish green leaf then picked lots of smaller vegetable leafs and herbs then we rolled it up and ate it.
So even growing a few herbs and lettuce in pots is worthwhile to have your own organic green sandwich.